Climate Change Data

Worley Limited

Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2018-07 to 2019-06, 2020, 2022-07 to 2023-06, 2023-07 to 2024-06, 2024)

Reporting Period: 2018-07 to 2019-06

Environmental Metrics

Total Carbon Emissions:84,091 tCO2e/year (FY2018)
Total Energy Consumption:171,169 MWh/year (FY2018)

ESG Focus Areas

  • Environment
  • Social
  • Governance

Environmental Achievements

  • 24% reduction in total carbon dioxide equivalent emissions since 2016
  • Completed a risk and opportunity assessment to identify the transitional exposure of the business and the physical risks posed to our people and assets.
  • Worked on more than 80 waste to energy projects
  • Vale Clean AER Project reduced smelter SO2 emissions by 85%, metals particulate by 40%, and greenhouse gases by 40%.

Social Achievements

  • Launched LGBTIQ+ employee network
  • Achieved gender targets for non-executive directors and senior executive leadership
  • Participated in over 296 corporate responsibility activities across 21 countries, involving over 6,000 Group personnel
  • Supported local communities through the network of corporate responsibility champions across 40+ offices.
  • Developed CAROL (Catalyst Removal Amphirol), a robot for catalyst unloading, reducing workplace risks.

Governance Achievements

  • Over 40,000 contractors, employees and partners received Code of Conduct training
  • 74 ethics reports received via Ethics Helpline
  • Updated Supply Chain Code of Conduct
  • Published first annual UK Modern Slavery Statement

Climate Goals & Targets

Short-term Goals:
  • 5% reduction of total carbon dioxide equivalents (tCO2-e) against base year FY2016 (achieved in FY2017)

Environmental Challenges

  • Maintaining accurate and complete energy consumption data
  • Impact of the merger on overall gender representation
  • Low availability of women in external labor markets for craft/hourly roles
  • Managing risks related to corruption and bribery across global operations
  • Addressing modern slavery risks in supply chains
Mitigation Strategies
  • Focus on improving the accuracy and completeness of energy consumption data
  • Continued progress on diversity and inclusion plan
  • Regular pay gap assessments
  • Harmonization of compliance programs post-merger
  • Updates to supply chain policies and procedures, including pre-qualification process and supplier visits

Supply Chain Management

Supplier Audits: Over 1,400 customer responsible business assessments (FY2019)

Responsible Procurement
  • Supply Chain Code of Conduct
  • Sustainable procurement procedures
  • Tracking and promoting inclusion of local businesses

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks
  • Severe weather events impacting power grids
Transition Risks
  • Regulatory changes
  • Market shifts in energy sector
Opportunities
  • Growth in renewable energy projects
  • Development of energy-efficient products and services

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: GRI, UNGC

Certifications: ISO 14001 (in a number of locations)

Third-party Assurance: Ernst & Young (limited assurance)

UN Sustainable Development Goals

  • Goal 7 (Affordable and clean energy)
  • Goal 8 (Decent work and economic growth)
  • Goal 9 (Industry, innovation and infrastructure)
  • Goal 12 (Responsible consumption and production)
  • Goal 13 (Climate action)

The report highlights how various initiatives contribute to these goals.

Sustainable Products & Innovation

  • CAROL robot
  • Requis platform
  • Fugitive Emissions Leak Detection and Repair Platform
  • Zero-bleed actuators

Awards & Recognition

  • 2018 IJGlobal Asia Pacific PPP Deal of the Year award (Tibar Bay Port Expansion Project)

Reporting Period: 2020

Environmental Metrics

Total Carbon Emissions:136,026 tCO2e/year (2020)
Total Energy Consumption:488,384 MWh/year (2020)

ESG Focus Areas

  • Health and well-being
  • Climate change
  • Affordable, sustainable access to clean energy

Environmental Achievements

  • Developed a new approach to assessing greenhouse gas emissions, combining best practices from WorleyParsons and ECR.
  • Set a target to achieve net zero Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 2030.
  • Developed Sustainable Solutions, a new sustainability approach, for launch in FY2021 to help customers reduce carbon emissions on projects.
  • Repurposed approximately 70,000 tonnes of materials and equipment through the Requis platform.

Social Achievements

  • Launched the 'Life' safety, health and well-being approach with four new programs: Life-Saving Rules, Take5 for Safety, Life Conversations, and Life Matters.
  • Improved gender diversity of the Group Executive to equal male and female representation.
  • Developed the first Reconciliation Action Plan in Australia.
  • Communicated a strong position of intolerance of racism and exclusion.
  • Increased leadership and people support for LGBTIQ+ employees.

Governance Achievements

  • Formalized Board-level governance over the sustainability program.
  • Expanded the responsibilities of the People and Remuneration Committee to include People strategy and policies.
  • Improved modern slavery prevention program through increased training and awareness, risk assessment, and strengthened review processes.
  • Refreshed the responsible business assessment process, elevating decision-making on risk factors to CEO and line of business leader level.
  • Implemented an enhanced program of continuous vulnerability scanning and increased formal 'threat hunting' exercises to protect data and systems.

Climate Goals & Targets

Long-term Goals:
  • Support customers in their sustainability journeys and the energy transition.
Short-term Goals:
  • Achieve net zero Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

Environmental Challenges

  • COVID-19 pandemic impacting communities, business operations, and project delivery.
  • Decline in oil price reducing planned capital spend by hydrocarbons production companies.
  • Climate change posing physical and transitional risks to the industries served.
  • Highly competitive and dynamic market environment.
  • Risks associated with environmental issues.
Mitigation Strategies
  • Agile response to protect people, maintain financial and operational integrity, and support customers.
  • Transitioned over 40,000 office-based employees to working from home.
  • Modified field practices to ensure site-based team safety.
  • Protected cash, managed receivables, and postponed non-essential capital expenditure.
  • Strengthened liquidity position by extending existing and securing additional facilities.
  • Embedded climate change considerations within core risk and strategy processes.
  • Established an energy transition working group.
  • Implemented a strategy development process using internal and external market data, macro trends, scenario analysis, and business knowledge.
  • Established an experienced mergers and acquisitions team to drive delivery of integration objectives and synergies.
  • Implemented a health and safety framework, including Life approach and associated programs, and R3 processes for security, crisis response, and business continuity planning.

Supply Chain Management

Responsible Procurement
  • Supply Chain Code of Conduct
  • Responsible Business Assessment Standard

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Transition Risks
  • Regulatory and other changes leading to increased cost, delays, or cancellation of projects.
Opportunities
  • Increased pace of projects associated with renewable and distributed energy.

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: GRI Standards: Core option, UN Global Compact, TCFD

Third-party Assurance: Independent third-party auditors provide limited assurance on a biennial basis.

Sustainable Products & Innovation

  • In-line liquid removal system for gas fields
  • Plastic debris harvesting solution for ocean cleanup
  • VECKTA platform for microgrids and distributed energy systems

Reporting Period: 2022-07 to 2023-06

Environmental Metrics

Total Carbon Emissions:41,422 tCO2e (Scope 1 and 2)
Scope 1 Emissions:22,334 tCO2e/year
Scope 2 Emissions:19,088 tCO2e/year
Scope 3 Emissions:792,007 tCO2e/year
Renewable Energy Share:Not disclosed
Total Energy Consumption:211,640 MWh/year
Water Consumption:539 ML/year
Waste Generated:13,119 tons/year
Carbon Intensity:Not disclosed

ESG Focus Areas

  • Health, Safety and Well-being
  • Affordable and Clean Energy
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Climate Action

Environmental Achievements

  • Reduced Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions by 14% from FY2022
  • Reduced Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 64% since baseline year
  • On track to meet Scope 1 and Scope 2 net-zero commitments

Social Achievements

  • Launched peer-to-peer recognition program, Appreciate
  • Launched new eLearning platform
  • Embedded psychosocial factors into Life programs
  • Commenced Respect at Work program
  • 48% of graduates recruited were women

Governance Achievements

  • Ran Code of Conduct refresher training
  • Updated Supply Chain Code of Conduct
  • Independent third-party auditors provided limited assurance on select ESG performance metrics

Climate Goals & Targets

Long-term Goals:
  • Achieve net-zero Scope 3 emissions by 2050
Medium-term Goals:
  • Achieve net-zero Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 2030
  • Derive 75% of aggregated revenue from sustainability-related work by FY2026
  • Improve energy productivity by 25% by 2030 from 2020 baseline
Short-term Goals:
  • Reduce net Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 65% by FY2025 from a FY2020 baseline
  • Phase out single-use plastics in all owned and managed sites by end of FY2025

Environmental Challenges

  • Supply chain disruptions
  • Inflation
  • Labor, employment, inflation and skills shortages
  • Cyberattacks and data breaches
  • Talent acquisition and retention
  • Climate change (physical and transition risks)
  • Nature-related risks (biodiversity loss, pollution, resource over-extraction)
Mitigation Strategies
  • Risk-adjusted approach and low-risk appetite
  • Active portfolio management
  • Cost savings initiatives ($375 million annualized savings)
  • Investment in people development and reskilling
  • Strengthened cybersecurity framework
  • R3 (Ready, Response and Recovery) management system
  • Climate Change Position Statement and net-zero roadmap
  • Nature roadmap to seek positive outcomes for nature
  • Responsible Business Assessment Standard

Supply Chain Management

Supplier Audits: Not disclosed

Responsible Procurement
  • Supply Chain Code of Conduct
  • ESG-related criteria in supplier pre-qualification questionnaire

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks
  • Extreme weather events
Transition Risks
  • Changing demand for fossil fuels
  • Rapid technology development
Opportunities
  • Growth in lower-carbon products and services

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: Integrated Reporting Framework, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) 2021 Standards, Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)

Certifications: ISO 9001, ISO 27001 (ISMS), ISO 45001 (parts of the business)

Third-party Assurance: Independent third-party auditors provided limited assurance on select ESG performance metrics

UN Sustainable Development Goals

  • SDG 3
  • SDG 7
  • SDG 9
  • SDG 13

The report details how initiatives contribute to these goals.

Sustainable Products & Innovation

  • Replic8 software
  • Pseudo dry gas technology
  • Chemetics® and Comprimo® technologies

Awards & Recognition

  • Chevron Commitment to Safety Award
  • RoSPA Gold Award
  • Land Transport Authority (LTA) of Singapore Safety Award
  • Apprentice Employer of the Year award

Reporting Period: 2023-07 to 2024-06

Environmental Metrics

Total Carbon Emissions:1,062,727 tCO2e/year
Scope 1 Emissions:19,088 tCO2e/year
Scope 2 Emissions:14,397 tCO2e/year
Scope 3 Emissions:944,497 tCO2e/year
Total Energy Consumption:212,990 MWh/year
Water Consumption:571 ML/year
Waste Generated:11,733 tons/year

ESG Focus Areas

  • climate
  • safety, health and wellbeing
  • talent attraction and retention
  • responsible business conduct

Environmental Achievements

  • Reduced Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 7% since FY2023 by purchasing and retiring renewable energy certificates (or equivalent instruments) and renewable energy contracts.
  • Phased out single-use plastics in strategic locations, including London, Bulgaria, Calgary, Türkiye, New Zealand and South Africa.
  • Reduced the consumption of paper cups with plastic lining by 64%, equivalent to over 325,000 plastic cups.

Social Achievements

  • Launched wellbeing hub with 22,430 visits during FY2024.
  • Launched Respect at Work Policy and implemented training for all leaders.
  • Improved gender balance of graduates to 56% from 48% last year.
  • Increased women in senior leadership positions from 16% in FY2023 to 18% in FY2024.

Governance Achievements

  • Established Human Rights and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (HRDEI) Committee.
  • Updated Human Rights and Modern Slavery policies.
  • Received an ‘A’ disclosure quality rating by Monash University for our FY2022 Modern Slavery Statement.

Climate Goals & Targets

Long-term Goals:
  • Net zero Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 2030
  • Net zero Scope 3 emissions by 2050
Medium-term Goals:
  • Achieve 75% of aggregated revenue from sustainability-related work by FY2026
  • Improve energy productivity by 25% by 2030
Short-term Goals:
  • Reduce water consumption
  • Phase out single-use plastics by end of FY2025
  • Reduce Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 65% by FY2025 from an FY2020 baseline

Environmental Challenges

  • Attraction and retention of highly skilled people to meet demand.
  • Inflation and supply chain disruption and their impact on the economics of business.
  • Ongoing geopolitical tensions affecting normal operations of global markets.
  • Higher cost of capital and variable support from governments for the energy transition resulting in some project deferrals and cancellations.
Mitigation Strategies
  • Strengthening risk management framework and practices.
  • Focusing on mitigating risks through the strength of our diversified global business, project assurance and ability to rapidly redeploy people.
  • Exploring energy transition opportunities to inform and prioritize transformation program.
  • Pursuing partnerships to support new process and digital technologies to support driving down the levelized cost of projects.

Supply Chain Management

Supplier Audits: 9,600+ due diligence checks

Responsible Procurement
  • Supply Chain Code of Conduct
  • ESG-related criteria in supplier pre-qualification questionnaire

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks
  • Severe weather events
Transition Risks
  • Higher cost of capital
  • Variable government support for energy transition
Opportunities
  • Market leadership in sustainability solutions
  • Energy transition and emerging technology

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: GRI 2021 Standards, IFRS, CDP

Certifications: ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 27001:2022

Third-party Assurance: Third-party assurance provider (limited assurance on key ESG metrics)

Sustainable Products & Innovation

  • Worley Comprimo and Worley Chemetics technologies
  • CORE-SO2TM process
  • Pseudo Dry Gas (PDG) subsea liquid removal system
  • Nano One One-Pot process

Awards & Recognition

  • 2023 Excellence in Construction Award from the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC)
  • Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Order of Distinction
  • Silver Workplace Safety and Health Award from the Singapore Ministry of Manpower
  • Outstanding Safety Performance Award from Thai Oil

Reporting Period: 2024

Environmental Metrics

Total Carbon Emissions:1,062,727 tCO2e/year (Scope 3)
Scope 1 Emissions:23,963 tCO2e/year
Scope 2 Emissions:14,397 tCO2e/year (market-based) + 33,460 tCO2e/year (location-based)
Scope 3 Emissions:1,062,727 tCO2e/year
Renewable Energy Share:Not disclosed
Total Energy Consumption:212,090 MWh/year
Water Consumption:Not disclosed
Waste Generated:Not disclosed
Carbon Intensity:Not disclosed

ESG Focus Areas

  • Climate Change
  • Biodiversity
  • Energy Transition

Environmental Achievements

  • Reduced Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions by 7% since FY2023
  • Reached Sustainability-Linked Bond target of a 65% reduction of Scope 1 and 2 emissions from FY2020 baseline by FY2025
  • Generated 188 MWh of solar energy from rooftop solar panels in Norway and Thailand
  • Reduced annual lighting energy consumption by 77% at Edmonton and Blackfalds Modularization Yard through LED upgrades
  • Reduced fuel consumption by over 20,000 liters by replacing 18 petrol cars with hybrid cars in Saudi Arabia
  • Reduced fuel consumption by 24,000 liters by replacing 72 petrol cars with electric cars in Belgium and Netherlands

Social Achievements

  • Not disclosed

Governance Achievements

  • Board and management team oversee climate-related risks and opportunities
  • Health, Safety and Sustainability Committee (HSSC) and Audit and Risk Committee (ARC) monitor and report on climate-related risks and opportunities
  • Climate-related performance indicators incorporated into Group’s remuneration policy and framework

Climate Goals & Targets

Long-term Goals:
  • Net zero Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 2030
  • Net zero Scope 3 emissions by 2050
Medium-term Goals:
  • Improve energy productivity by 25% by 2030 from 2020 baseline
  • Derive 75% of revenue from sustainability-related work by end of FY2026
Short-term Goals:
  • Not disclosed

Environmental Challenges

  • Increased severity and frequency of weather-related events impacting business and people
  • Longer-term shifts in climatic patterns impacting presence in key regions and supply chains
  • Evolving climate change policy actions influencing investment in lower carbon markets
  • Rapid advancement of process and digital technology changing demand for services
  • Changing markets as customers position themselves in the energy transition
  • Reputational impact from involvement in traditional sectors and high-carbon intensity projects
Mitigation Strategies
  • Proactive business continuity management, global R3 team, and health and safety procedures
  • Monitoring physical climate change scenarios and evolving supply chain management strategy
  • Incorporating market trends in strategy planning and scenario analysis, engaging with stakeholders on policy changes
  • Collaboration with industry partners, digital innovations in project delivery and asset management, strategic partnerships, internal upskilling
  • Deliberate zippering approach to account management, helping customers decarbonize, growing sustainability-related work
  • Communicating purpose and ambition, working with customers in traditional sectors to decarbonize, applying SEAL standard, using Responsible Business Assessment (RBA) Standard

Supply Chain Management

Supplier Audits: Not disclosed

Responsible Procurement
  • Supply Chain Code of Conduct

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks
  • Increased severity and frequency of weather-related events
  • Longer-term shifts in climatic patterns
Transition Risks
  • Evolving climate change policy actions
  • Rapid advancement of technology
  • Changing markets
  • Reputational risks
Opportunities
  • Business growth through demand for energy efficient and lower carbon products and services
  • Leadership in sustainability-related work
  • Responding to climate change adaptation

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: TCFD, ASRS (future)

Certifications: Null

Third-party Assurance: Not disclosed

UN Sustainable Development Goals

  • Not disclosed

Not disclosed

Sustainable Products & Innovation

  • Not disclosed

Awards & Recognition

  • Not disclosed