• Enhancing our economic performance and contribution through research and development in alternative energy
• Enhancing our market presence, offering our customers access to responsible energy through our products and services
• Increasing our profitability through innovation
• Enabling our supply chain to procure services and products by developing SMEs and entrepreneurs through different programmes 

• Improving the social well-being of our employees, contractors and communities where we operate, and maintaining high levels of health and safety among our employees and contractors
• Offering equal opportunities and encouraging workplace diversity and inclusion, in addition to developing our human capital by building their capacity to attend to the rapidly changing business environment and growth
• Managing our environmental footprint by applying mitigation and control through implementation of monitoring systems, and by reducing our impacts on the environment
• We also aim to invest in the local biodiversity for enhanced environmental impact by designing and carrying out communication and awareness campaigns in collaboration with community members and other stakeholders

Throughout the integration journey that began in December 2018, we have worked to ensure that all our efforts keep working together, along with our ever-changing growth in our vision, ambitions and strategy. To ensure effective management of sustainability from day one, we began by establishing a sustainability committee as an advisory and decision-making body. It consisted of key internal stakeholders and subject matter experts who guide our sustainability agenda. Reporting directly to our Group CEO, the committee members met on a regular basis to review and monitor our performance, set targets and agree on the way forward.

OQ has since established a thorough and highly-specialised sustainability department with various functions and oversight. The Sustainability department and its operational structure will be in effect in the upcoming fiscal year to ensure that sustainability is further managed from within the business, and to ensure that the adequate expertise and capital are put to achieve our ambitious targets and aspirations in line with numerous sustainability guidelines and frameworks.

To ensure that our sustainability approach and areas of focus are influenced by a spectrum of sustainability priorities, we referred to the following guidelines and frameworks. The elements of each aligned framework have been mapped to all our material topics and focus areas, all illustrated in the GRI Standards Content Index at the end of this report.