Healthy and Safe Communities

To address the increasing demand at local food banks and school-based food programs, we have continued our long-standing support and partnerships with six food bank locations throughout our operating areas in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and North Dakota.

Our partnerships focus on childhood hunger initiatives, providing thousands of meals to local students and their families above what schools can provide during the normal school day. These programs are mostly implemented through “backpack” programs that provide shelf stable ingredients and foods for children to consume during the weekend, summer meal programs that provide five meals per week and school pantry programs that enable students to easily access food and personal care items at school, a location they visit regularly.

Altogether, our financial support helped the Houston Food Bank, the Food Bank of the Golden Crescent and San Antonio Food banks in South Texas, the Great Plains Food Bank in North Dakota, the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma and the Roadrunner Food Bank in New Mexico distribute 350,000 meals.

Marathon Oil has been partnering with the American Heart Association (AHA) for nearly 20 years. During this time, our approximately $3 million in total contributions has supported events like the AHA’s Paul “Bear” Bryant Awards, life-saving work including research, CPR initiatives and training, and equipment distributions. The support of key team members from across the company maximized the organization’s ability to educate and spread awareness of its mission.

We are committed to providing anti-trafficking education and resources to our employees, partners and communities. As part of this initiative, in 2022, more than 200 Houston employees attended a Human Trafficking “201” information session presented by Truckers Against Trafficking (TAT). This builds off the ongoing engagement and education efforts the company has provided since 2020. TAT’s training program educates people on the realities of human trafficking and its intersection with the energy industry.

We have a dedicated Human Rights and Anti-Human Trafficking section in our Code of Conduct, which is applicable to employees and suppliers. It states that a Code violation can result in disciplinary action, including dismissal, and in the event of a serious violation of law, notification to appropriate government authorities.

In 2022, we continued to build on our partnership with the Permian Road Safety Coalition (PRSC), which began in 2021. Along with others, we provide funds to PRSC to promote public-private partnerships to address road safety in the Permian Basin. This year, PRSC hosted three road safety events for more than 1,000 individuals. A road safety video filmed during one of the events has subsequently been used more than 800 times as a training tool for transportation companies. PRSC’s Life-Saving Equipment Initiative also provided over 7,000 pieces of new, life-saving equipment to 82 first-responder departments in 27 counties of the Permian Basin.