Guide to Social Impact Assessment

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Guide toSocial Impact Assessment

• In the Oil and Gas Industry
• Lee Zarnikau (ConocoPhillips)

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About the Guide

• Outlines use of Social Impact Assessments (SIAs)
  in oil and gas industry
• Inform managers how to make best use of SIAs

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Inside the Guide
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SIA Key Success Factors

• Scope realistic achievable
• Approach tailored to specific project conditions
  constraints
• Initiate early (project conception)
• SIA output incorporated into project execution
  plan
• Recognize sensitivities (i.e., analysis appearing
  critical of culture)
• Management commitment at all levels across
  disciplines
• Steering committee can be useful

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SIA Key Success Factors, contd

• Early and frequent internal communication on SIA
  objectives ? coordination of involved disciplines
• Local knowledge of social, political and cultural
  issues
• Maximize use of participatory approaches
• Involve operations personnel in consultation
  process
• Identify and communicate vision and goals for
  social performance
• Define social performance and contractor
  requirements

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SIA Benefits

• For Business
• Short and long-term risk management tool
• Input into stakeholder engagement process design
• Better estimating and optimization of
  socio-economic costs
• Defining socio-economic considerations for
  inclusion into tender documents
• Meet financial / aid institution requirements

• For Communities
• Avenue to express views to company
• Identify opportunities for economic development
• Contribution to local capacity building
• Infrastructure
• Skills
• Support for traditional industries
• Protection of cultural resources
• Inclusion of communities

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Integrating the SIA
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SIA Process
Design and Engineer
Construction / Operations / Abandonment
Project Conception
Review
Modeling
Project Information
Scoping
Planning
Impact Assessment
Disseminate Findings
Risk Mitigation Benefit Enhancement
Implementation
Monitoring
Legislation
Socio- economic Context
Significance Criteria
Stakeholder Engagement
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Discussion Questions

• How do you encourage full-issue impact
  assessments when the regulatory drivers arent
  there?
• How do you get the findings of the impact
  assessment off the shelf?
• What lessons have you learned about coordinating
  SIA and stakeholder engagement? How do you
  manage community expectations during those
  efforts?
• When do you use local vs international
  contractors to conduct the impact assessment?
  Any lessons learned?