Our proprietary technology allows our clients to reduce their environmental impact while helping them meet their net-zero targets. I’m excited to see our clients buy into this strategy across our operational bases around the world, and collectively improve our industry’s emission reduction performance.
Stephen Rawlinson
Chief Executive Officer
STATS Group
Sustainability Strategy
Our Approach To Sustainability
STATS Group’s sustainability strategy is built on four core pillars, each aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals across the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) framework. This integrated approach ensures sustainability is embedded across every business function and region in which we operate.
People & Society
Our people work in demanding conditions across the world. We hold ourselves to high standards on safety and wellbeing, actively work toward a more inclusive workplace, and try to leave the communities where we operate, better than we found them.
Economic
We grow deliberately, not just fast. That means building local supply chains in every region where we work - cutting the international freight burden, creating jobs closer to where they're needed, and forming partnerships built to last.
Environment
We track what we emit and work to reduce it. Our technology also directly helps clients - each time our isolation tools are used in place of venting, substantial volumes of greenhouse gas stay in the pipeline rather than the atmosphere.
Innovation
Our engineers are already working in hydrogen and carbon capture as live projects - not future planning. We played a leading role in the world's first isolation of a high-pressure in-service hydrogen pipeline. The energy transition is underway, and we're in it.
In addition to these four pillars, three underlying themes run across everything we do:
Commitment to Safety
Continually striving to implement higher levels of safety into our industry.
Operational Excellence
Exceeding client expectations by consistently delivering on our commitments.
Business Principles and Ethics
Conducting all our business and decision-making in accordance with the highest standards of business ethics.
Long-term Partner
A Global Partnership
In July 2023, Mitsui & Co. - one of Japan’s largest global trading companies - made a strategic investment in STATS Group. For a business of Mitsui’s scale and global reach to choose STATS as a long-term partner is recognition not only of our commercial strength and technical leadership, but of our shared commitment to responsible, sustainable business practice.
Case Studies
Reducing Emissions In The Field
STATS Group technology doesn’t just keep pipelines safe - it actively reduces the greenhouse gases released during pipeline maintenance. These two projects demonstrate what that means in practice.
In The News - National Gas, UK
24x
Emissions reduction vs. traditional venting
IGEM Product of the Year - Innovative Pipeline Isolation Technology
A Remote Tecno Plug was deployed to keep a 48" diameter pipeline fully pressurised at 55 bar across 56km during replacement of an insulation joint - replacing traditional venting or recompression operations. The result: just 9.5 tonnes of gas discharged versus 233 tonnes if venting had been used. Carbon savings equivalent to taking 1,000 cars off UK roads or switching off 1,760 gas boilers for a year. Installation and testing took 24 hours; traditional pipeline recompression would have taken six weeks.
Case Study - OQ Gas Networks, Oman
350km
of pipeline that would have required venting
A complex, first-of-its-kind operation in Oman with no disruption to gas supply and boosting OQGN's decarbonisation performance. Dual Remote Tecno Plugs were deployed on a 48" gas transmission line in central Oman for OQ Gas Networks (OQGN), pigged 25 kilometres to the isolation point to safely tie in two newly constructed gas processing plants while the line remained fully pressurised. A repair of this type would have required the entire 350km pipeline to be hydrocarbon-free and nitrogen purged - with time, cost and environmental implications. Our approach significantly reduced greenhouse gas emissions compared to venting the pipeline.
Featured News
Sustainability In The News
Innovation / Energy Transition - STATS Group complete world-first high pressure hydrogen pipeline isolation
STATS played a leading role in SGN's LTS Futures project, safely isolating a live 18" high-pressure hydrogen pipeline - a world first with major implications for net-zero targets.
People & Society - STATS Group's skills development recognised with major award
STATS Group won the Outstanding Skills Development Award at the 2025 Offshore Achievement Awards, recognised by over 20 employers for best-in-class training and competency.
Sustainability - STATS Group's new SureTap® Plug eliminates long-standing completion safety risk in hot tapping operations
Hot tapping has always ended with a single, untestable seal - a gap operators knew about but couldn't engineer around. The SureTap® Plug is the first completion plug to offer full double block and bleed protection at that final stage, with dual independent seals that can be verified before anyone is exposed to risk.
Sustainability Programme
How We Govern Our Approach
STATS Group’s sustainability programme is coordinated by a dedicated Sustainability Steering Group, with senior representatives from across the business - spanning People & Society, Environment, Economic, and Innovation. This cross-functional group provides leadership, coordination, and guidance to ensure that sustainability principles are embedded throughout the organisation’s activities in all regions.
Our Chief Executive Officer is directly accountable for delivering our Sustainability Strategy, as approved by the Board of Directors, and reports regularly on progress against our sustainability objectives.
We’ve been building this programme systematically since 2020 - establishing our Sustainability Policy, forming the Steering Group, completing Scope 1 and Scope 2 data collection across all regions, and conducting a full staff diversity survey with a detailed action plan. Our sustainability journey continues to mature as we embark on our three-year growth programme in 2025.
Beyond Engineering: Doing Business Right
This is how STATS Group operates as a business - the principles, standards and responsibilities that sit alongside our technical work, in every region where we operate.
Corporate Responsibility
Conducting business with honesty, integrity and respect for people. We're committed to ethical practices across everything we do.
Compliance
Zero-tolerance approach to bribery and corruption. Meeting and exceeding legal requirements in every jurisdiction where we operate.
QHSE
ISO-accredited systems protecting people and environment. Adopting industry Life-Saving Rules to eliminate workplace fatalities.
Leadership Team
Meet the executive committee and non-executive directors who guide STATS Group's strategy, values, and global growth.
