Transportadora de Gas del Sur S A : Sustaintability Report 2019

2019 Sustainability Report

About tgs Businesses Our people Environment Community Challenges About the report

Interactive table of contents

	Letter from the CEO		3	Environment
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						Highlights
	About tgs
					Commitment to environmental care	61
						Environmental risk identification	65
	Highlights
	5	and prevention	67
	About Our Company	6	Environmental awareness and training
	Economic performance	10	Use of water	68
	and industry context		Discharges and effluents	70
	Our Management Model	12	Waste management	71
	Corporate Governance	14	Use of energy	73
	Commitment to sustainable development	17	Generation of emissions	75
	Our Stakeholders groups	21
						Community
	Businesses and value chain
26	Highlights	77
	Highlights
	Our commitment to communities	78
	Outstanding business progresses	27
	Our pipelines' integrity and safety	32
Future challenges			87
	Clients, dialogue and satisfaction	34
	Suppliers and contractors	36
						About the Report		90
	Our People
	Highlights	40
	Employees	41
	Recruitment opportunities	43
	Benefits and compensations	46
	Dialogue with employees	47
	Development and training at the workplace	49
	Health and occupational security	50

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Letter from the CEO

suppliers and contractors in compliance with the outlined standards.

We are certain that working side by side with the entire energy sector is essential to promote sustainable development. Within this framework, one of the most outstanding achievements of the year was the development of a Road Map that displays our sector's contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) along with companies of the hydrocarbon industry and the Argentine Oil and Gas Institute ("IAPG", according to its initials in Spanish).

I, hence, invite you to explore the pages of our 2019 Sustainability Report, which we have prepared in accordance with the GRI standards, ratifying our commitment to the Global Compact principles. We wish to foster a fruitful dialogue with all our audiences to continue improving our performance in the economic, social and environmental fields and keep heading shoulder to shoulder towards the sustainable development of our country and our region.

Oscar Sardi

CEO

I am proud to present a new Sustainability Report. As over the last nine years, we have chosen this tool to communicate to our stakeholder groups our achievements and the challenges for which we are getting ready in our sustainable development path.

We have overcome the challenges that the year 2019 presented to our business, achieving very positive results in line with our investment policy.

One of our main successes was to maintain our positioning as one of the first midstreamers in Vaca Muerta. We executed the construction projects of the Southern and Northern Vaca Muerta pipelines and the conditioning plant in Tratayén -involving an investment of around USD 300 million-, meeting the terms agreed with our clients.

At the same time, we worked strongly towards the consolidation of our commitment to the community and environmental care, through the constant review of our Sustainability

Policy, which steers our actions to ensure people's quality of life as well as compliance with the highest safety standards. We have invested over USD 1.1 million in environmental care improvements. Additionally, we continue working within the framework of the Environmental Management System, based on standards ISO 14001:2015 and the implementation of the Preventive Maintenance Plan to guarantee the integrity and safety of our pipelines.

We continue deepening our bonds with the community, tgs' main stakeholder. By means of the program Transporting Awareness, we provide useful information and foster communication on damage prevention with the neighbors who live near our pipeline routes, in areas of high population density. 92 percent of our interviewed neighbors asserted that they found our recommendations useful.

Our commitment to the care of health, safety and environment reaches throughout our whole value chain. For that reason, we train our

These major steps forward were possible thanks to a highly committed work team. That is why we are proud of ranking 7th among the best companies to work at in Argentina, within the category of over 1,000 employees, according to the international consulting company "Great Place to Work". With the aim of acknowledging our workers' contribution we created the program +Energy, by means of which we have rewarded both individual and team work with over 900 distinctions. Our performance is framed within the Integrity Program which - along with the Code of Conduct- guarantees transparency in our businesses and operations.

The year 2020 posits to us an unprecedented scenario in which the COVID-19 pandemic has struck all aspects of our lives. To cope with this crisis, we are redoubling our efforts to guarantee our people's safety and keep rendering a reliable service of excellence to the whole energy sector chain. I would like to thank and underline the commitment and dedication of our people in the face of this unexpected and challenging scenario.

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Highlights

+60%							43%
of the gas consumed in Argentina
is transported by us.								share in the country's ethane production.

USD 300 million	ISO	System under ISO 14001, ISO 9001 and
		We recertified our Integral Management
invested in a 150 km pipeline and a		OHSAS 18001 Standards.
conditioning plant in Vaca Muerta.

23%	100%
share in our country's production of	of our employees have signed our Code
liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).	of Conduct.

Our Sustainability Policy guides our actions.

We work jointly with the IAPG on a Road Map to determine the sector's key SDGs.

We have improved our process to identify, survey and classify our stakeholder groups.

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