Message from our CEO
The entire WES team has worked diligently to strengthen our culture of sustainability.
Our continued focus on sustainable operations – which includes protecting our people, minimizing our environmental footprint, and improving our communities – is one of WES’s foundational principles.
In 2023, we made notable achievements in our efforts toward becoming a more sustainable organization.
Our top priority has always been, and will continue to be, the safety of our people and maintaining the highest ethical standards within the communities that we serve. In 2023, we continued to advance our safety culture and performance. Our teams recorded significant improvements in the use of our safety programs, namely our Good Catch safety observation program and the use of stop-work authority, which has greatly assisted in the reduction of our Total Recordabl Incident Rates for our employees and total workforce.
We have also remained diligent in our approach to reducing emissions across our operations. Throughout our organization, our teams have focused on enhancing the transparency and accuracy of emissions tracking and reporting by implementing new monitoring technologies and piloting forecasting tools, all of which will help us more effectively target future emissions reductions efforts. Additionally, we included and achieved a qualitative greenhouse gas emissions goal as part of our company-wide incentive program.
Finally, our employees’ hearts were again on full display in our communities. Together, 75% of our employees participated in our social investment program – the highest in our four-year history – volunteering more than 17,200 hours for more than 590 causes. Our people and their passion for improving WES and the communities where we live and work, along with the collective talents they bring to these efforts, are what make WES a special place to work, and I am truly thankful for their contributions.
The WES Leadership team and I have great confidence that the accomplishments our employees achieved in 2023 will yield even more meaningful results in the years to come.
– Oscar Brown, President & CEO
