SOCAR said on 9 October 2026 that it received a score of 50 out of 100 in S&P Global’s 2026 Corporate Sustainability Assessment. The company reported that approximately 12,500 companies participated in the global assessment and that, as of 9 October, it outperformed 83% of companies assessed in the Oil & Gas Upstream & Integrated industry group. These are SOCAR’s reported results from the assessment; the company’s announcement does not provide a full scorecard or the underlying peer-by-peer data.

SOCAR said it submitted data for more than 95% of the 1,000-plus indicators requested by S&P Global. That is a disclosure-completion figure reported by the company, not a statement that every submitted indicator received a positive score or that the company achieved 95% performance. The announcement describes a 0-to-100 scoring scale used by S&P Global to benchmark companies against peers in an industry group. It does not explain the score’s weighting, give component scores or identify a median or average for the peer group.

The company said that compared with its previous assessment, it had made progress in determining which ESG issues were material, strengthening human-rights commitments and processes, advancing climate action and its climate strategy, expanding greenhouse-gas emissions reporting, and improving resource management and reuse. The notice does not quantify changes in emissions, water use, waste, or other physical outcomes. It also does not say whether the 50-point score represents an increase from the prior assessment. The reported score and the listed areas of progress therefore need to be kept distinct: the former is a numeric assessment result, while the latter is SOCAR’s qualitative description of changes since the prior cycle.

S&P Global’s assessment, as described in the notice, applies industry-specific criteria and is intended to let companies compare sustainability management practices and identify strengths and areas for improvement. The announcement says roughly 12,500 companies participated globally, but does not identify the number of companies in SOCAR’s particular industry group or the precise comparison set behind the 83% figure. It therefore supports a statement about SOCAR’s reported relative standing, not a claim that the company ranked in a particular ordinal place among all participants.

The dated release is a corporate announcement about a third-party assessment, not an independent publication of the complete assessment record. It contains no project-level investment figures, production numbers or environmental impact measurements. This report records the figures and comparison exactly as SOCAR presented them and attributes the peer comparison to the company. It does not infer a trend from one score, assign causes to the score, or treat a disclosure rate as an outcome measure. A full assessment questionnaire, methodology and peer dataset would be needed to independently analyse the score components.