IPIECA has gathered a number of case studies illustrating ways that our members are addressing the topic of biodiversity.

• Monitoring Oil Sands Development and Future Reclamation: Shell Canada and the European Space Agency worked together to use satellite imagery to help stakeholders understand the effects of Oil Sands activities and to monitor future reclamation.
• The AgriBioDiversity Project in Italy: in 2003, Eni E&P Division and Shell Italia E&P launched the AgriBioDiversity project, adopting the EBI Guidelines to integrate biodiversity conservation into Oil & Gas operations. Carried out in partnership with the University of Basilicata, Flora & Fauna International and IUCN, the focus of the ABD project was a biodiversity survey and impact assessment in the ecologically sensitive area of Val d’Agri, southern Italy. The outcomes of this initiative have now been incorporated into site’s operational practices.
• The VillanoBioDiversity Project in Ecuador: transferring the approach developed in Val d’Agri, Eni E&P Division, in partnership with the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador and Flora & Fauna International, is carrying out a biodiversity and ecosystem impact assessment in the Ecuadorian Amazon, where the Villano site is located, to minimize any potential impacts and to identify conservation-based opportunities. Coming up soon.
• The Save The Tiger Fund: In 1995, partners ExxonMobil Foundation and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation established the Save The Tiger Fund dedicated to supporting the conservation of the world’s remaining wild tigers.
• Sustainable harvesting of biodiversity resources in South Africa: Through a fusion of conservation expertise, financial investment, business skills and long-term access to consumer markets, Shell and its partners are working in South Africa to conserve biodiversity, generate jobs, and improve the quality of life for local people through the sustainable harvesting and sale of flowers and associated products.
• Developing a Biodiversity Action Plan in Peru: Hunt Oil, the operating partner for Peru LNG, is working with local communities, the Peruvian government, NGOs and biodiversity consultants to promote sustainable resource use and conservation along the route of a proposed natural gas pipeline through the Andes.
• The Energy and Biodiversity Initiative: The Energy and Biodiversity Initiative is a partnership of four energy companies and five conservation organizations created to develop and promote practices for integrating biodiversity conservation into upstream oil and gas development. After four years the formal partnership came to a close, but partners continue more informally to explore opportunities to be a positive force for biodiversity conservation within the oil and gas industry.
• Environmental preservation in the Arabian Gulf: Saudi Aramco is working with its academic and government partners over the long term to research, protect and restore the marine ecosystem of the Arabian Gulf.
• Monitoring and assessment of biodiversity in Gabon: Shell and the Smithsonian Institution Monitoring and Assessment of Biodiversity Program are working together to increase understanding of biodiversity in an energy development area in Gabon, building on a relationship that began in Peru in 1995.
• The Port-Cros National Marine Park, France: The 13-year partnership between the Total Corporate Foundation for Biodiversity and the Sea and the Port-Cros National Park has spawned a number of partnerships and programmes to enhance biodiversity conservation and sustainable management of the protected marine area around the island of Port-Cros in southern France.
• Marine Biodiversity and Coastal Livelihoods Project in Indonesia: In 2002, Unocal (now a subsidiary of Chevron) and The Nature Conservancy launched a partnership in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, to build local conservation capacity, promote sustainable livelihoods and protect the region’s valuable natural resources.
• BP’s deep-sea biodiversity programme: Exploring true frontiers
• BP in Papua Province, Western New Guinea: Developing a Biodiversity Action Plan
• BP in Dorset, southern England: Twenty years of environmentally sound operations in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
• Chevron in Barrow Island, Australia: Quarantine management for the Barrow Island oilfield
• Chevron in San Joaquin Valley, California: Participating in a major habitat conservation plan to protect the natural habitat and endangered species
• Saudi Aramco in central Saudi Arabia: Managing operations in a sensitive environments
• Saudi Aramco in the Arabian Gulf, off Saudi Arabia: Restoring mangroves along the coastline
• Total in the Andean rain forests, Bolivia: Minimizing the effects of exploratory drilling in a virgin rain forest ecosystem
• Total in the Mahakam Delta, Indonesia: Environmental management in action: a sensitive mangrove ecosystem remains unharmed by 20 years of oil production
• Total in the Murzuq Basin, Libya: Seismic acquisition in a desert environment
• Total E&P Netherlands BV in the Wadden Sea, off The Netherlands: The rigorous demands of a drilling concession agreement are willingly met to protect a highly sensitive marine environment