ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT OF AN OIL AND GAS PRODUCING ENTERPRISE

Sustainable environmental management involves understanding the environmental situation in the territory of the enterprise and in the surrounding area, assessment and management of environmental risks. Environmental audit serves these purposes. For oil and gas producing enterprises, conducting an environmental audit is especially important due to their high level of their environmental impact. The article presents the results of studying the theoretical and methodological foundations, the experience of conducting environmental audits of oil and gas producing enterprises, as well as the results of developing a methodological guide for conducting a comprehensive environmental audit of oil and gas producing enterprises (the criteria of environmental audit, methods, stages, main directions and aspects of verification are defined).