PHILADELPHIA, May 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sunoco, Inc. (NYSE: SUN)
said today that it has issued its 2004 Health, Environment and Safety (HES)
Report, marking this as the thirteenth successive year that the Company has
publicly reported the results of its performance. In 1993 Sunoco became the
first Fortune 500 company to endorse the Ceres Principles, a 10-point code of
environmental conduct that includes public reporting of environmental
performance. Sunoco believes that excellence in health, environment and
safety performance go hand-in-hand with operations reliability and is a
leading indicator of the Company's financial strength.
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The Report provides detailed HES performance data for Sunoco's business
units and this year provides additional data and information for individual
Company facilities. It includes anecdotes that highlight various Company HES
activities including Sunoco's involvement with Community Advisory Panels
(CAPs), reinforces the importance of training for improving HES performance,
and talks about challenges to Sunoco over the next three to five years.
Features of the Web site version can be found by accessing the How to Use This
Report link located at the bottom of each page.
Ceres, a unique coalition of institutional investors, environmental
organizations and public interest groups, is a worldwide leader in
standardized corporate environmental reporting through the Global Reporting
Initiative. Over 70 corporations have now joined with Sunoco to endorse the
Ceres Principles and work with Ceres to find concrete solutions to
environmental challenges.
A detailed version of the 2004 HES/Ceres Report, as well as an 18-page
summary, can be found on Sunoco's Web site: http://www.SunocoInc.com.
Printed copies of the summary are also available by contacting Sunoco at:
Telephone: (215) 977-6847
Fax: (215) 246-8001
E-mail: HESReporting@sunocoinc.com
Sunoco, Inc., headquartered in Philadelphia, PA, is a leading manufacturer
and marketer of petroleum and petrochemical products. With 900,000 barrels per
day of refining capacity, approximately 4,800 retail sites selling gasoline
and convenience items, over 4,300 miles of crude oil and refined product owned
and operated pipelines and 38 product terminals, Sunoco is one of the largest
independent refiner-marketers in the United States. Sunoco is a significant
manufacturer of petrochemicals with annual sales of approximately five billion
pounds, largely chemical intermediates used to make fibers, plastics, film and
resins. Utilizing a unique, patented technology, Sunoco also has the capacity
to manufacture over 2.5 million tons annually of high-quality metallurgical-
grade coke for use in the steel industry.
SOURCE Sunoco, Inc.
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