:: BANGCHAK PETROLEUM PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED ::

Driven by its corporate culture of “sustainably developing business with the environment and society", the Bangchak Petroleum Public Company Limited (BCP or Bangchak) has enhanced its competitiveness with eco-friendly, socially-responsible business innovations. The move is good to not just its operation but also the environment as well as the society.

Sufficiency Economy-Based Innovations

Developing and promoting the commercial distribution of renewable energy such as gasohol and biodiesel. The distribution aims to boost Thailand's energy self-reliance in line with Sufficiency Economy principle.
Community Service Stations for Local Economy Project
Used Vegetable Oil Purchase-for-Biodiesel Production Project
“Brother Bio – Sister Gassy” Exhibition Board and Emcee Contest Project. It is held to encourage the development of learning materials about gasohol and biodiesel for youths across the country.

CSR Work-System Innovations

Building CSR Corporate Culture
Environmental Cost Accounting
Building CSR Network

CG (Corporate Governance) Structure

After its restructuring efforts, the Company has expanded its business and recruited more employees. Every batch of the employees is taught to embrace the corporate culture of “sustainably developing business with the environment and the society”. Every batch is told to find the balance between “business profits” and “social/environment values”. To nurture such corporate culture, the Company has developed a work system that allows the employees to work while learning how to support themselves, their colleagues, their community and the society. The employees are encouraged to become volunteers at activities held by the Company. The Company’s executives at all levels have led the employees by example.

Work Culture for Employees: Be Virtuous, Knowledgeable and Contributive to the Society
The Company has required its employees to “be virtuous, knowledgeable and contributive to the society”. The requirements rank among recruitment criteria. “To be virtuous” is to have honesty. “To be knowledgeable” is to have knowledge and abilities for work efficiency. “To be contributive to the society” is to use one’s knowledge and abilities for other people.

At the Company, the employees have work assignments plus a forum to do various types of activities. The very first activity that the employees can join is the “Free Lunch Project”. The Company has called on the employees to donate money for buying lunch for students at neighboring schools. After specifying an amount they want to donate every month, the donations can be deducted from the employees’ salary automatically.

“Bangchak Volunteers” for the Society
To create better understanding in the Company’s corporate culture, the Company has encouraged its employees to become Bangchak volunteers. This means in addition to general work duties, the employees will also do various activities with the Company as volunteers.

The Company has promoted volunteerism because by being volunteers, the employees will learn about altruism and “public-spiritedness”. Aside, volunteer sessions also effectively bring the employees from various units together giving them opportunities to make friends, share their ideas and experiences, learn about teamwork and do something good for the society and be proud together. Currently, the Company has over 700 employees.

The volunteer work at the Company can be categorized into three groups:

Volunteer work for the Company: Volunteers in this group save energy, serve as deejay for in-house radio programs, and conduct activities to promote “good corporate governance”.
Volunteer work for neighboring communities: The Company, as a big organization and a part of the local communities, has promoted the mutual co-existence. During their free time, the Company’s volunteers in this group jointly arrange activities for local youths, families and public service. There are “Free Lunch Project”, “Free Tutorial Project”, “Science and Oil Fun with Bangchak Project” and “Futsal Tournaments for Scholarships Project”. Aside, the Company has organized Children’s Day activities for neighboring communities for more than 10 consecutive years already.
Volunteer work for the society: The Bangchak’s Bird-Watching Project first began with some employees getting together to train themselves as bird-watching guides. Then, they have arranged “bird-watching camps” to inculcate love for nature among participating youths and strengthen family ties of the participants.

Every year, bird-watching guides from the Company have joined the Bird Conservation Society of Thailand’s Asia Midwinter Waterbird Census activities in various places such as Doi Inthanon. Furthermore, the Company’s bird-watching guides have also organized bird-watching trips for interested agencies and clubs. The Company’s employees have carried out other public work too. In post-tsunami period, they were actively involved in relief operations including school repairs in disaster-hit areas.

CSR Network Support

The Company believes in the power of cooperation among business organizations, government agencies, communities, civil society, non-profit organizations, and educational institutes in sustaining the society and environment. Therefore, the Company has thus promoted such cooperation via various Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities. Through shared knowledge, experiences and commitments, the activities can deliver contributions at a wider scale.

The Company’s CSR Network

The Company is a founding member of Thailand Business Council for Sustainable Development (TBCSD), the local chapter of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). Just like many other leading business organizations, the Company has attended CSR Sharing sessions held by the TBCSD.
The Company has conducted various environmental activities with the Thailand Environment Institute.
The Company is a key member of the Oil Industry Environment Safety Group Association (IESG), which has played an active role in operations to remove oil spillage from water.
The Company sits in the Thai Chamber of Commerce’s CSR committee.
The Company is the chair of Securities and Exchange Commission’s CSR committee.
The Company sits in the Listed Companies Association’s CG and CSR working panel.
The Company is a member of Stock Exchange of Thailand’s Corporate Social Responsibility Institute.

Activities by the Company’s CSR Network include

The Company has joined the Electricity Generating of Thailand’s “Wan Kaew Project” in which people including children and elderly people are given eyeglasses. The Bangchak volunteers have helped in this project, allowing people to enjoy better quality of life and safety in their daily routine.
In collaboration with various government and private agencies, the Company has conducted the “Used Vegetable Oil Purchase for Biodiesel Production Project”. Not only that this project reduces environmental impacts, but it also decreases people’s health risk from the repeated use of vegetable oil.
- The participating government agencies are the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, the Department of Public Works and Town & Country Planning, the Department of Rural Roads, the 2nd Army Region headquarters, the Suranaree Army Hospital, Ramathibodi Hospital, the Mahidol University, and Aeronautical Radio of Thailand.
- The participating private agencies are IBM Thailand, Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, and NCC Group and partners, which comprise the Stock Exchange of Thailand, Federation of Thai Industries, Thailand Tobacco Monopoly, Black Canyon restaurants, Central Department Stores, Zen Department Stores and all restaurants inside their shopping complexes.
- The Green Leaf Foundation has helped by encouraging leading hotels in Bangkok to join the project.
- The civil society has helped by arranging the purchases of used vegetable oil from people at 161 fresh markets in Bangkok.
- The participating educational institutes are all Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s schools plus Satri Wittaya II School, Sainampeung School, Dhammamongkol School and more.

“Brother Bio – Sister Gassy” Exhibition Board and Emcee Contest Project

For the development of learning materials about gasohol and biodiesel for youths across the country

Today, the need for renewable energy has been on the rise because oil price has continued to soar higher and higher. Knowledge about or understanding in gasohol and biodiesel are thus necessary not just for adult motorists, but also for children who are going to become main energy consumers in the future.

In a bid to promote the better understanding in gasohol and biodiesel that come from His Majesty the King’s initiatives, the Company has arranged the “Brother Bio – Sister Gassy Brothers” Exhibition Board and Emcee Contest Project. The emcee part is intended to encourage children’s self-expression.

The exhibition-board contest is novel.The Company has decided to use this form of contest because exhibition boards are effective teaching tools with concise content and many interesting elements for learning environment.

By involving students and teachers in the project, the exhibition boards can be developed as even more effective tools. Children at schools across the country, meanwhile, have opportunities to learn about gasohol and biodiesel in fun, interesting and useful ways.

Contest Format:The project requires participating schools to create exhibition boards about biodiesel and gasohol, and to allow all students to take a look at the boards. To ensure that everyone gets the key information, the contest requires outstanding emcees for the exhibition boards too.

The project attracts more than 600 schools. Signing books show more than 1,200,000 students have already looked at the project’s exhibition boards. Another piece of welcome news is that schools from the southernmost provinces of Yala and Narathiwat have joined the project too. With their creativity, their exhibition boards have won the prizes at regional level.

Prizes for the Contest:
Winners from the regional level get prizes and a chance to join the “Bangchak Youth Club”. Through the club, they are eligible to participate in various activities including a visit to His Majesty’s experimental projects at the Suan Chitralada Villa, the birthplace of gasohol and biodiesel in Thailand. Out of concern for his subjects, His Majesty has tried to find renewable energy for them since more than 20 years ago. Thanks to His Majesty’s initiatives, the energy problems are not very severe these days. All visitors to his experimental projects are moved, and they intended to respond to His Majesty’s initiatives.

Under the project, students and teachers have also received training on how to hold exhibitions and serve professionally as emcees from experts, news announcers, actors and actresses.

Exhibitions:The project has found that teachers and students now have good knowledge and great abilities for holding exhibitions with modern technology and interesting multimedia. Each participating school has come up with high-quality exhibition boards.

In all, the project has offered not just a novel contest for children but also innovative media to communicate about renewable energy. Currently, the project means there are 600 exhibition boards between June and July across the country. No other subject has such a nationwide exhibition before.