Summary
By partnering with Evalueserve, this leading Oil & Gas company transformed a complex technical challenge into a strategic asset. Using the CarbonDetect platform and a structured stakeholder-driven approach, the team delivered a transparent emissions inventory that established the foundation for authentic sustainability leadership.
The Challenge
A major player in the Middle Eastern Oil & Gas sector faced the daunting task of establishing a comprehensive Scope 3 emissions baseline across all its business units. Unlike direct emissions that companies typically manage first, Scope 3 emissions present significantly greater complexity, covering the entire value chain from raw materials to product end-use.
Three critical challenges made this particularly difficult:
- First, the company operated a remarkably diverse portfolio spanning fuel retail, lubricants, trading, and storage terminals—each with distinct operational patterns and emissions drivers requiring specialized analysis approaches.
- Second, mapping Scope 3 emissions required visibility across an intricate network of suppliers, logistics partners, and customer interactions that had never been comprehensively documented.
- Third, the organization's decentralized structure meant no unified view of indirect emissions existed, with inconsistent data collection practices across business units making standardization nearly impossible.
The company needed not just calculations, but a structured methodology that would create a foundation for ongoing sustainability reporting while delivering actionable business insights.
The Solution
Evalueserve approached this challenge with a strategic, multi-phase methodology that combined industry expertise with tailored implementation.
Beginning with a leadership alignment phase, Evalueserve's specialists gained crucial context about the company's sustainability objectives. They then conducted an industry peer benchmark based on operational complexity, identifying best practices that would guide the engagement.
Rather than imposing generic solutions, Evalueserve deployed visualization tools (Figma Modelling) to map the client's specific business structure, revealing critical interdependencies and emissions touchpoints across business units. This comprehensive mapping enabled the identification of stakeholders best positioned to coordinate information flow throughout the process.
Through extensive onsite engagement, Evalueserve's specialists conducted detailed discussions with stakeholders to understand each unit's unique operations and value chain. This granular understanding allowed them to develop a comprehensive document identifying material Scope 3 categories for each business unit in accordance with the GHG Protocol.
Recognizing that one-size-fits-all approaches would fail, Evalueserve designed tailored data collection questionnaires specific to each business unit's supply chain, then facilitated workshops to ensure stakeholders fully understood requirements. For critical upstream emissions, Evalueserve directly engaged with key suppliers to secure essential data that would otherwise remain inaccessible.
The team's technical expertise proved crucial during data verification and processing, where they applied rigorous methodologies to cleanse and format gathered information. Where data gaps existed, Evalueserve documented clear assumptions to maintain transparency and auditability—a crucial factor for future reporting credibility.
The final phase leveraged Evalueserve's proprietary CarbonDetect platform to present validated results in an interactive dashboard offering a centralized view of Scope 3 emissions across business segments and categories. To ensure sustainable implementation, Evalueserve developed detailed platform guides, conducted training sessions, created templates for future data collection, and established a RACI matrix assigning ongoing reporting responsibilities.
Business Impact
Evalueserve's structured approach delivered transformative results beyond basic compliance:
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Comprehensive emissions visibility
with a robust, auditable baseline covering diverse business divisions that revealed the true scale of indirect emissions across the value chain.
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Actionable business intelligence
through an interactive emissions dashboard that allowed sustainability teams to analyze emissions by category, business unit, and source—transforming raw data into strategic insights.
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Sustainable capability development
as business units gained the tools, templates, and knowledge to independently manage future reporting cycles without external dependency.
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Reporting credibility
credibility through transparent documentation of data sources and assumptions, creating a foundation for potential third-party assurance processes.
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Strategic foundation
for informed decision-making on reduction targets, supplier engagement strategies, and integration of emissions data into broader ESG reporting frameworks.
Overview & Impact
A leading Middle Eastern Oil & Gas company faced a complex sustainability challenge—establishing a credible Scope 3 emissions baseline across a diverse set of business units. With fragmented data sources and no unified emissions view, the organization needed a custom, scalable approach to build transparency and long-term reporting capability.
