Framework · Before the first barrel
Safety, quality and compliance before the first barrel.
At EnerTchad, safety, quality and compliance are not options: they are the foundations of bankability. The organisation, controls and recognised standards (OHADA, SPE-PRMS, ISO, API) exist from formation — the framework funders and co-investors demand before the first barrel, so that growth is never improvised. Here are the four commitments that run through all our trades.
Browse this page · 6 themes
Our disciplines
HSE, quality, safety, compliance.
01 · Health · Safety · Environment
HSE
An approach ALARP (“as low as reasonably practicable”) applicable to every operation, and environmental protection anchored in Chad’s realities — the water of Lake Chad and the Sahel, the soils, the air.
Health
Protecting every worker’s health.
- Occupational medicine and exposure monitoring (targeted).
- Industrial hygiene: noise, dust, the heat of the Sahel.
- Fatigue prevention and rotation management.
Safety
Production never comes before people.
- Process safety: barriers and equipment integrity.
- Work permits and lockout (LOTO).
- Risk analysis before every task (JSA) + stop-work right.
Environment
A minimal footprint, anchored in Chad.
- Water: treatment, reinjection — a zero-spill objective.
- Air: an end to routine flaring targeted, emissions controlled.
- Soils & biodiversity: a reduced footprint, site rehabilitation.
Key practices
Targets & standards aimed for
02 · Quality
Quality
Quality is built in the processes, not in the final check. EnerTchad targets a benchmark quality management system , from the product delivered to the service rendered.
03 · Operational safety
Operational safety
Safety is not an added option: it is built into the design of operations, from isolated sites to the last kilometre of distribution.
04 · Compliance
Compliance
A auditable by design: the legal, accounting and ethical framework is laid before the assets. Transparency is a condition of the trust of partners, the State and the funders.
05 · Our E-S-G arc
Environment, Social, Governance — by design.
A young company can write the extra-financial into its DNA from day one. Three pillars, each with its ambition, its dated targets and its aimed-for standards. (targets · company in formation)
An issue is a priority if it weighs both ways: on the company’s value, and on the world around it. That is the reading of recent standards (CSRD / ESRS), and the one EnerTchad uses to arbitrate its E-S-G priorities.
Accountability means knowing to whom. Four families of stakeholders, each with its own expectation — and the channel through which it can tell us.
A grievance that gets lost is a risk that grows. The target mechanism is simple, dated and traceable — and substitutes for neither the courts nor the whistleblower channel.
05b · Indicator table
What we will measure, and from when.
The majors publish a performance-data page. We hold no operating assets: our “actual” columns are therefore empty, and we prefer to say so rather than hide it. Here is the measurement commitment — indicator, baseline, target, deadline, standard — that the first barrel will make enforceable.
| Indicator | Baseline | Actual | Target | Deadline | Standard targeted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Routine flaring | None — no site | to measure from the 1st barrel | Zero routine flaring | 2030 | Zero Routine Flaring |
| Renewables share · site energy | 0% | to measure from the 1st site | 30%+ | 2030 | reporting GES |
| Scope 1+2 carbon intensity | Not applicable | to measure from the 1st barrel | Below the basin median | 2030 | GRI · IPIECA |
| Produced water reinjected or valorised | None | to measure from the 1st field | Zero non-compliant discharge | 2030 | ISO 14001 targeted |
| TRIR — recordable incidents | None — no hours worked | to measure from the 1st site | Best-in-class for the sector | annual | ISO 45001 targeted |
| Chadian staff | 100% (founding team) | published each financial year | 80% at scale | 2030 | local content |
| Purchases from Chadian suppliers | None — tenders not open | to measure at opening | Majority | 2030 | local content |
| Revenues paid to the State | None | to publish from the 1st financial year | Full publication | annual | EITI targeted |
| Ethics reports handled | Channel being opened | to publish from the 1st financial year | 100% investigated | annual | ISO 37001 targeted |
| Community grievances closed | None — no operations | to publish from the 1st site | 100% with a dated answer | annual | grievance mechanism |
A company in formation: none of these lines is a result. The table commits to the measurement method and to the date on which each cell will stop being empty — it will be carried over as is into the first sustainability report.
05c · Our standards
The frameworks we hold ourselves to.
A single place for every standard cited on this site — what each covers, and where we stand.
06 · Sustainability publications
Sustainability report
Like the majors, EnerTchad will publish a sustainability documentary framework — to make the extra-financial verifiable, dated and comparable. First edition targeted: at the end of the first full financial year, published within six months of its close. Announced contents: (1) the indicator table above, filled in; (2) climate and site energy; (3) water, soils and biodiversity; (4) safety and people; (5) local content and revenues paid to the State; (6) governance, ethics and grievances.
Governance · Proof
Figures you can verify without us.
The 2030 targets publish, for every indicator, its baseline, its target and how it is measured. The missing storey was independence. The accounts have their audit; the non-financial data will have its own.
ISAE 3000-type limited assurance is targeted on the key indicators of the annual sustainability report: an independent engagement, a published scope, conclusions attached to the report. We do not grade ourselves.
Payments to governments — royalties, taxes, dividends — declared by category and reconciled with public registers, within the targeted EITI membership. The rent is verified on both sides of the counter.
Every indicator traces back to a time-stamped primary record: flaring telemetry, energy metering, HR and procurement registers. The CoA and custody logic applied to non-financial data: no figure without an audit trail.
Target arrangement · company in formation — the climate ambition is quantified (zero flaring, LDAR, methane intensity) on the impact page.