{"id":"2026-oct-add-caspian-socar-esg-rating-oct9","canonicalSlug":"2026-oct-add-caspian-socar-esg-rating-oct9","url":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/2026-oct-add-caspian-socar-esg-rating-oct9","language":"en","title":"SOCAR reports a 50/100 score in S&P Global’s 2026 sustainability assessment","summary":"SOCAR says it scored 50/100 and ranked above 83% of peers assessed in its industry group.","body":["Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR said on 9 October that it received a score of 50 out of 100 in S&P Global’s 2026 Corporate Sustainability Assessment. The company said about 12,500 companies took part in the global assessment and that it ranked above 83% of companies assessed in the Oil & Gas Upstream & Integrated industry group.","SOCAR also said it supplied data for more than 95% of the over 1,000 indicators requested. The company described improvements in materiality assessment, human-rights processes, climate strategy, greenhouse-gas reporting and resource reuse compared with the previous assessment.","These figures are SOCAR’s account of its assessment result and disclosures. The announcement gives no emissions total or prior-year score, so the 50-point rating should not be read as a direct measure of physical environmental performance or as a year-on-year comparison."],"keyPoints":[],"sections":[],"text":"SOCAR reports a 50/100 score in S&P Global’s 2026 sustainability assessment\n\nSOCAR says it scored 50/100 and ranked above 83% of peers assessed in its industry group.\n\nAzerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR said on 9 October that it received a score of 50 out of 100 in S&P Global’s 2026 Corporate Sustainability Assessment. The company said about 12,500 companies took part in the global assessment and that it ranked above 83% of companies assessed in the Oil & Gas Upstream & Integrated industry group.\n\nSOCAR also said it supplied data for more than 95% of the over 1,000 indicators requested. The company described improvements in materiality assessment, human-rights processes, climate strategy, greenhouse-gas reporting and resource reuse compared with the previous assessment.\n\nThese figures are SOCAR’s account of its assessment result and disclosures. The announcement gives no emissions total or prior-year score, so the 50-point rating should not be read as a direct measure of physical environmental performance or as a year-on-year comparison.","category":"business","region":"world","topics":["oil","statistics"],"eventDate":"2026-10-09","eventDateBasis":"source-announcement-publication","publishedAt":"2026-10-10T13:24:37Z","modifiedAt":"2026-10-10T13:24:37Z","publicationBasis":"first-publication","preparedAt":"2026-10-10T13:18:00Z","sourcePublishedAt":"2026-10-09","translatedAt":"2026-10-10T13:12:48Z","sources":[{"url":"https://www.socar.az/en/post/socar-secures-esg-rating-in-sp-globals-2026-corporate-sustainability-assessment","name":"SOCAR — 2026 Corporate Sustainability Assessment result","checkedAt":"2026-10-10","attribution":"SOCAR — 2026 Corporate Sustainability Assessment result; company announcement. The site displays Copyright © 2026 SOCAR; no open reuse licence identified. Original Wellficent factual summary; no source prose, image or dataset reproduced.","publishedAt":"2026-10-09"}],"translations":{"en":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/2026-oct-add-caspian-socar-esg-rating-oct9","tr":"https://wellficent.com/tr/news/2026-oct-add-caspian-socar-esg-rating-oct9","ar":"https://wellficent.com/ar/news/2026-oct-add-caspian-socar-esg-rating-oct9","fr":"https://wellficent.com/fr/news/2026-oct-add-caspian-socar-esg-rating-oct9","es":"https://wellficent.com/es/news/2026-oct-add-caspian-socar-esg-rating-oct9","ru":"https://wellficent.com/ru/news/2026-oct-add-caspian-socar-esg-rating-oct9","pt":"https://wellficent.com/pt/news/2026-oct-add-caspian-socar-esg-rating-oct9"},"corrections":[],"locations":[],"type":"news","classification":{"version":"1","dataKinds":["corporate-results"],"geographies":[{"role":"economic-scope","countryCode":"AZ","subdivisionCode":null},{"role":"issuer-location","countryCode":"AZ","subdivisionCode":null}],"evidenceBasis":["reported-observation"],"measurementPeriod":null}}