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Biodiversity Case studies

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
  Eni E&P Division and Shell Italia E&P established a working group that, in 2003, launched the AgriBioDiversity project, a multipartner collaboration for biodiversity monitoring in the ecologically sensitive area of Val d’Agri, southern Italy.
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.
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.

Case studies from the IPIECA Sensitive Environments publication - submitted in 2003
BP’s deep-sea biodiversity programme: Exploring true frontiers (PDF, 492KB)
BP in Papua Province, Western New Guinea: Developing a Biodiversity Action Plan (PDF, 490KB)
BP in Dorset, southern England: Twenty years of environmentally sound operations in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (PDF, 466KB)
Chevron in Barrow Island, Australia: Quarantine management for the Barrow Island oilfield (PDF, 505KB)
Chevron in San Joaquin Valley, California: Participating in a major habitat conservation plan to protect the natural habitat and endangered species (PDF, 620KB)
Saudi Aramco in central Saudi Arabia: Managing operations in a sensitive environment (PDF, 488KB)
Saudi Aramco in the Arabian Gulf, off Saudi Arabia: Restoring mangroves along the coastline (PDF, 463KB)
Total in the Andean rain forests, Bolivia: Minimizing the effects of exploratory drilling in a virgin rain forest ecosystem (PDF, 555KB)
Total in the Mahakam Delta, Indonesia: Environmental management in action: a sensitive mangrove ecosystem remains unharmed by 20 years of oil production (PDF, 506KB)
Total in the Murzuq Basin, Libya: Seismic acquisition in a desert environment (PDF, 508KB)
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 (PDF, 470KB)