It is estimated that by year 2050 there will be 9 billion people living in the world. It takes large amounts of energy to develop a modern society and the world's energy consumption is expected to double from 2002 to 2030.

All the power generation options have advantages and disadvantages which need to be weighed carefully against each other in the interest of security of supply. A key challenge is for societies to reach a consensus on sustainable energy supply.

The philosophy of sustainability is long-term well-being of society, living now in a way that gives all people, including future generations the same or greater freedom, resource and lifestyle choices that we have today. From this perspective Turcas' commitment to corporate responsibility is to ensure the balance of Turcas' impacts on society, the environment and the climate by investing new sources and technologies of energy production for the changing world in which social and environmental concerns are as important as financial ones.

Fossil fuels will continue to play an important role in the future but industrialization and urban growth are causing an enormous increase in energy demand. Turcas' mission is to use them wisely and efficiently.  As a major energy company, the responsibility of Turcas is to provide power, natural gas, and oil products affordably and reliably from a long-term perspective. To this end, Turcas draws on a wide-ranging energy portfolio, comprising natural gas, coal and renewables based power generation assets to oil distribution and refining, petrochemicals production and marketing to natural gas importation and wholesale.

Turcas' tool in renewable energy is wind, the most mature renewable technology.  Wind energy is currently the most promising renewable energy source, highly competitive both to other renewables and to fossil fuels.

6 Wind Farms across Turkey, a total of 400 MW installed power capacity planned to be built by Turcas Wınd Energy Generation, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Turcas established in 2007, will allow to make a contribution for more environmental protection, for long-term price stability in the energy market and for more independence from finite, ever more expensive energy sources such as coal, oil, gas and uranium.

The benefit is the highest return on investment, independence from fossil fuel imports, and the use of a reliable, available, and environmentally sound energy source.

Diversifying energy generation capacity not only with thermal but also alternating with renewable portfolio is also an important aspect for  TURCAS likewise his partners; Shell, Iberdrola, E.ON, and SOCAR, the major players of the global energy industry.

Turcas' investments in Turkey will continue to accelerate. Existing energy prices have to come down for sustainable growth. Determined as a strategic market with great importance for Turcas and its partners, Turkey plays a major role in our company's future plans as it has done in the past.

Shell & Turcas and Sustainability

The settlement in 2006 of fuel oil distribution as the main sector of the Shell & Turcas association is a result of our sustainability principal. Actualizing this association with Shell, indisputably one of the world's leading companies concerned with petrol, the raw material of this sector, and petroleum products, was an important step in the assurance of sustainable continuation and long-term growth of successfully sustained activities, when developing technologies, increasing customer demand and competition  are  taken  into  account.

Shell & Turcas has to combine a lot of components in order to promote the principle of sustainability. Product diversity, social responsibility and high quality service are some of these components. A common understanding is required for the survival of these components in the fuel oil sector. Work Health - Safety - Environment (WHSE) principals of Shell & Turcas play a very important role in undertaking this mission. Shell & Turcas, starting out from this point, cares about developing its stations in the direction of WHSE, and bringing WHSE consciousness to the indispensable principles of employees and business partners at every level. With this purpose in mind “Plant Technical Safety Education”, initiated in 2007, has been ongoing while covering almost all plants within Shell & Turcas.

In theoretical parts of the training, consisting of three sections, sector accidents are shared by means of visual presentations, their reasons and elicitations are discussed and necessary actions are determined. In the practice section, which is the last part of the training, the required action in case of emergency in plants, duty descriptions, devices and materials that will be used, are explained with practical exercises in the plants. This training also includes owners or directors of the plant.

Shell & Turcas aims to achieve a position of undisputed offering nonstop quality services and products in conditions of compulsory competition and aimed at WHSE consciousness.

The same precautions have to be taken one by one throughout the procedure of delivering fuel oil from terminals to stations, regarding potential dangers and tanker drivers, driving safety, tanker rigs and technical equipment, and supply operation in and out of the plant.

Financial results, improvements concerning operational activities, and safety continued to elevate the service standards perception of Shell & Turcas. In terms of priority of safety, the company's superlative performance continues under the guidance of WHSE standards.

WHSE improvements were not neglected during the maintenance of intense promotional terms and marketing projects. The necessary improvements in Health, Safety, and Environment issues are meticulously observed in filling stations. The target of losing “0” days through accidents was successfully achieved.

“Shell Work Safety Days” projects, carried out to deepen WHSE perception, were initiated in Turkey in June. Organized for the first time in 2007, “Shell Work Safety Days” were carried out for the second time in September.