Attock Refinery Limited (ARL) was awarded the "Best Sustainability Report Award 2007" in the local listed companies' category by Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and WWF. Hameed Ullah Jan Afridi, Federal Minister for Environment was the chief guest on the occasion and presented this award to ARL representative at an impressive ceremony held in Islamabad.
The ACCA in collaboration with WWF aims to recognise and encourage those organisations, which follow best practices in environmental, social and sustainability reporting. Their purpose is also to raise awareness of reporting corporate social responsibility issues and performance.
ARL strength lies in highly motivated human resource, knowledge based management and conducive and learning culture to encourage creative thinking and innovation. Good corporate governance, conservation of natural resources, including bio-diversity and corporate social responsibility are its priority areas. The company cherishes and places great emphasis on organisational core values which has helped the company not only in attaining sustainability but also continuous growth since 1922.
ARL compliance with the Best Business Practices is evident from a number of awards/recognition received for the year 2007; Best Corporate Report in Energy Sector, Environment Excellence Award, CSR Award, Gender Justice Award, The International Platts Global Energy Award for Community Development and People as Key Resource Award by the Employees Federation of Pakistan (EFP) etc.
It is pertinent to mention that ARL is a member of the Attock Oil Group of Companies, a fully integrated group covering all segments of oil and gas industry from exploration & production and refining to marketing of a wide range of petroleum products in Pakistan.-PR
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