Corporate Social Responsibility: ExxonMobil, BP, and Royal Dutch Shell

This report provides a detailed analysis of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities undertaken by ExxonMobil, British Petroleum (BP), and Royal Dutch Shell. It examines ExxonMobil's commitment to safety, environmental stewardship, and community engagement, including its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and empower women economically. The report then explores BP's CSR strategy, focusing on the triple bottom line (social, environmental, and economic performance), its investments in renewable energy and carbon trading markets, and its initiatives to reduce carbon emissions and improve operational safety. Finally, the report delves into Royal Dutch Shell's CSR activities, highlighting its focus on environmental protection, community relations, human rights, and transparency, as well as its efforts to enhance energy efficiency and contribute to social growth and development in regions like Nigeria. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of CSR in ensuring the sustainable growth and development of these major oil and gas companies.

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ExxonMobil’s CSR Activities
The ExxonMobil organization has introduced several Corporate Social Responsibility
initiatives with a purpose of producing the best internationally and prioritizing CSR.
ExxonMobil comprises of certain incorporated practices and policies that further ascertains the
organization to accomplish health and safety standards along with integrated principles to their
clients and stakeholders whilst guaranteeing social and environmental responsibility within the
company’s practices at an international level. ExxonMobil has been committed to safety that is
regarded as a fundamental value and an integrated part of the organizational culture
(ExxonMobil 2018). The company follows a inclusive approach to managing process protection.
Process safety is regarded to the equipment, processes and induction that cause prevention to the
unrestrained release of hydrocarbons as well as hazardous materials. The company comprises of
set of processes to enhance productivity, and mitigate and contribute to successful enduring
resolutions to manage climate transformation risks. ExxonMobil in 2016, had a net equity
greenhouse gas emission that increased by over 3 million carbon dioxide that is equal to metric
tons (ExxonMobil 2018). The company further evaluates the environmental circumstance of
regions whereby they operate to recognize biodiversity as well as environment services risks and
suitable safeguard measures. Furthermore, ExxonMobil has operated in areas where involvement
with host governments is undertaken to aid security and honour for human rights in neighbouring
operations. ExxonMobil supported the Voluntary Principles and Values through the facilitation
of pilot communities located in Nigeria, Ghana as well as Myanmar which were organized to
improve local partnership on human rights activities among governments, NGOs along with
other clients. The company’s approach towards empowering women economically is regarded as
the chief factor to improve local and national progress by aiding women in developing regions as
well as donating to an improved equitable society (ExxonMobil 2018). In 2015, ExxonMobil has
been reportedly spend over $100 million ion programs that aid investigation to recognize the
most productive ways to enhance the economic status and also develop women cultivators,
entrepreneurs as well as business leaders and further improve the accessibility of women to
technology (ExxonMobil 2018). The company has acknowledged its stakeholders to take action
in order to enhance environmental performance. For instance, the company has performed with
several proponents to recognize opportunities for enduring improvement in environmental
performance that develop the competences and create common principles for business and their
suppliers.

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British Petroleum CSR Activities
The CSR strategy posed by British Petroleum has successfully posed significance to three
performance measures that comprise the social, environmental as well as economic regarded as
the triple bottom line. The company’s CSR activities concentrates on five aspects which involve
the employee associations, ethical conduct, along with heath welfare and environmental
performances. BP is the leading operated renewable business among our oil and gas competitors.
Furthermore, it functions a biofuels business in Brazil, implementing one of the world’s most
sustainable and beneficial feedstocks to generate low carbon ethanol along with low carbon
power energy. BP currently is accounting for almost 55% of total energy consumption and
anticipates that by 2035 the company will have more than 25% of share with a gross growth of
declining in this year (Bp.com 2018). The company has active participation in carbon trading
markets since their establishment commencing in European region and growing till US , China
and New Zealand. BP’s aid of low carbon assignment operations caused a decline in annual
emission of over 20Mte of carbon dioxide in the form of compensations. Furthermore, BP for the
past two decades have been associated with Princeton University in the US in order to recognize
the most authentic methods of detaining and storing major proportion of the world’s carbon
emissions from fossil fuels. The company is further working with Oil and gas climate initiatives
to assist rapid scale use of fossil fuels. This is regarded as one of the most targeted areas for their
proposal and initiatives of $1 billion motor vehicles guaranteed to the growth of low emissions
technology (Bp.com 2018). In order to follow the welfare performance, BP utilizes industry
metrics namely American Petroleum Institute suggested practice 754 (Bp.com 2018). Their
operating management system that envelops demands and requirements of safety, protection,
contractual associations, as well as organizational induction is framed to assist BP ton manage
risks, challenges and facilitate improvements.

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CSR activities of Royal Dutch Shell
There are several CSR activities initiated by Shell that involves in its recreation of social
accountability that cover external factors such as environmental safeguard, community
associations and human rights along with factors related to transparency. The company in recent
times has managed to enhance its production from new proponents such as offshore deep water
explorations along with improved supply chain competences. Thus, it has acquired its increase in
production averaging from 30% annually (Shell.com 2018). Shell has been engaged with
shareholder funding to provide enduring revenues in comparison to other leading oil and gas
companies. For instance, the company has been intimately functioning with government to assist
them in realizing Nigeria’s power and energy competence and further facilitate fir social grpwth
and development. With the assistance of Nigerian government, Shell has managed to witness its
expansion and energy sector in Nigeria. As per reports, it has been examined that client salience
model of Shell and Tata Steel, the Royal Dutch Shell has imposed by expectant shareholders like
Greenpeace in societal growth and accountability (Shell.com 2018). The majority section of the
company has been found in areas whereby they had unimpressive experience along with crucial
social effects. The objective of Shell to acquire social accountability to its stakeholders and offer
them with improved quality of product and services has resulted in contributing to the company’s
sustainable growth and development. Shell identifies its major responsibilities to safeguard the
funding of clients, and offer them better quality product and safety assurance to consumers, and
peaceful working condition to the employee base. The company’s amenities and refineries of the
company comprise of vital influence on the community, thus Shell conducts social performance
strategies and assessment plans.

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Appendix
(ExxonMobil 2018)

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(Bp.com 2018)
(Shell.com 2018)