Activity by big oil and gas corporations has significant social and environmental impact. The present study focuses on the values publically posted by 25 hydrocarbon corporations on their official web-pages. Five general categories of these values are outlined, namely regarding business itself, staff, society, environment, and 'philosophy'. The analysis allows insights into how business- and staff-related values are projected by the majority of the considered hydrocarbon producers. Social values are announced by 48% of the companies, and environmental values are stated by 40% of the companies. The diversity represented by environmental values is smaller by three times than that of the business-related values. The social values are rather detailed, whereas many environmental values are of very general character. Apparently, society and environment are underrepresented among the values of the major hydrocarbon corporations under consideration. The preliminary geographical analysis shows that the problem of underrepresentation of social and environmental values exists in all regions of the world, especially strong apparently in Africa. Several recommendations for improvement of the stated values are provided.

大型石油天然气公司的活动具有重大的社会和环境影响。本研究的重点是25家碳氢化合物公司在其官方网页上公开发布的价值。概述了这些价值的五个大致类别，即有关业务本身，员工，社会，环境和“哲学”的类别。通过分析，可以深入了解大多数碳氢化合物生产商如何预测与业务和员工相关的价值。48％的公司宣布了社会价值，而40％的公司宣布了环境价值。环境价值所代表的多样性比业务相关价值所代表的多样性小三倍。社会价值相当详细，而许多环境价值则具有非常普遍的特征。显然，在考虑中的主要碳氢化合物公司的价值中，社会和环境的代表性不足。初步的地理分析表明，社会和环境价值代表性不足的问题在世界所有地区都存在，特别是在非洲尤为严重。提供了一些改进规定值的建议。