The Ipieca Principles and the Ipieca-WBCSD SDG Roadmap are key frameworks through which Ipieca aims to inspire action. This repository provides tangible examples of how members are operationalising the principles and embedding SDG Roadmap actions in their business, offering inspiration and insights for other companies. The examples are supplemented with relevant Ipieca good practice guidance and resources to further support companies to take the next step on their sustainability journey.

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Carbon Out programme impact
  • Map-pinItaly

Baker Hughes has launched the Carbon Out programme, engaging over 50,000 employees globally to identify and implement emission reduction initiatives, aligning with its net zero commitment. It targets both short and long-term opportunities for carbon reduction.

First oil field in Germany running solely on green electricty
  • Map-pinGermany

Wintershall Dea is switching to electricity generated by renewables at its production sites wherever possible. The change to renewables is a further step in implementing Wintershall Dea’s strategy to protect the climate by consistently reducing emissions.

Blue ammonia project
  • Map-pinQatar

QatarEnergy's affiliates, QatarEnergy Renewable Solutions and Qatar Fertiliser Company, have collaborated to launch the Ammonia-7 Project, the world's largest blue ammonia facility, with a capacity of 1.2 million tons per annum.

Petrobras Young Apprentice Programme
  • Map-pinBrazil

Petrobras runs the Young Apprentice Programme to engage and attract young talent, with 1,392 participants across 16 Brazilian states in 2022.

Barge Training Centre
  • Map-pinCameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, DRC, and Chad

Perenco has established the innovative Barge Training Centre, spanning across four countries and addressing training needs in Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. This unique solution, floating on water, relocates to areas requiring training, ensuring seamless access to education.

Emergency preparedness and response
  • Map-pinAlgeria, Egypt, Indonesia and the Netherlands

Neptune Energy operates a four-tier management model for emergency response, which ensures Neptune delivers its duty of care, from an initial site incident to Boardlevel oversight.

Carbon neutralization of jet fuel
  • Map-pinJapan

INPEX and partners jointly undertook the carbon offset jet fuel across its entire supply chain for select flights during May 1-31, 2023, coinciding with the G7 Hiroshima Summit in Japan.

Joint venture with Siguler Guff for emissions management software
  • Map-pinUnited States of America

Halliburton, in collaboration with Siguler Guff & Company, LP, launched Envana Software Partners, LLC, providing emissions management software solutions for the oil and gas sector.

3D printing: from science fiction to industrial reality
  • Map-pinNorway

Equinor utilizes 3D printing to revolutionise spare parts production, reducing lead times, costs, and CO2 emissions.

Carbon neutral fuel
  • Map-pinJapan

In October 2023, ENEOS and HIF Global, a leading eFuels company, announced a cooperation agreement designed to encourage the sale of carbon neutral fuel in Japan.

Strategic alliances with the Center for Innovation and Technology - Colombia Petroleum Institute (ICP)
  • Map-pinColombia

The TERRA project is aimed at estimating carbon stocks and fluxes in ecosystems and sustainable production systems, directing natural climate solutions implementation to decarbonize operations.

Floating wind turbines
  • Map-pinChina

CNOOC has deployed a revolutionary deep-water floating wind power on the Guanlan platform, located in the South China Sea, aiming to supply green power to its offshore oil and gas production facilities, constituting a significant move towards renewable energy adoption and emissions reduction in their operations.

Creating a green hydrogen supply chain from Spain to the Netherlands
  • Map-pinSpain and the Netherlands

Cepsa and ACE Terminal have entered into an MoU for the supply of green ammonia to the planned import terminal in the port of Rotterdam. This ammonia will be converted back into hydrogen for industrial use or utilized directly in shipping and other industries in Northwest Europe.

Supporting green skills and education initiatives on Teesside
  • Map-pinUnited Kingdom

bp signed a memorandum of understanding with Redcar & Cleveland College to develop educational programmes for clean energy industries, including a Clean Energy Education Hub. Through projects like Net Zero Teesside Power and H2Teesside, bp aims to create significant economic value and thousands of jobs in Teesside, supporting its role in the UK's energy transition.

Turning carbon dioxide into rock
  • Map-pinUnited Arab Emirates

ADNOC has initiated drilling for a pilot project aimed at advancing energy transition plans by mitigating emissions from fossil fuels. This initiative, set to become the region's first carbon-negative project, underscores ADNOC's commitment to decarbonization.

Supporting commercial scaling and marketing of AI-enabled concentrated solar energy technology
  • Map-pinUnited States & Australia

Woodside Energy and Heliogen, a leading provider of AI-enabled concentrated solar energy, are collaborating on a commercial-scale demonstration deployment of Heliogen's technology in California. The technology aims to cost-effectively deliver near 24/7 carbon-free energy in the form of heat, power, or green hydrogen fuel at scale.

Scaling clean hydrogen technologies
  • Map-pinFrance

In a private-public partnership model, SLB is partnering with French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Comissions (CEA) and partners to deliver the most efficient and cost-effective technology for producing clean hydrogen, a versatile energy and key component of the energy transition.

Producing energy from hydrogen
  • Map-pinAngola

The Luanda Refinery has recently reached an important milestone, with the successful performance of the tests of hydrogen use for energy production.

Solar panel recycling
  • Map-pinJapan

Idemitsu Group's Solar Frontier K.K. has been pursuing the development of recycling technologies for solar panels since 2010, recognizing the importance of establishing low-cost, environmentally friendly recycling technologies as a means of promoting the healthy expansion of solar power generation.

Caring for Country: protecting local culture and respecting the environment
  • Map-pinAustralia

The Blacktip gas field, located in the Australian offshore Bonaparte basin, has been part of Eni's 'Caring for Country' project since 2006. Extensive surveys and consultation were undertaken with the Traditional Owners to determine cultural heritage values that need to be protected and conditions for the long term use of the land for the Blacktip Project.

Strengthening cooperation on an industrial relations system for the energy transition
  • Map-pinItaly

The economic scenario calls for a collective commitment to an effective and inclusive industrial relations system. In December 2020, Eni signed the Industrial Relation Protocol Together, a model of industrial relations to support the energy transition and to sustain its ongoing transformation.

Pathways Alliance
  • Map-pinCanada

Canada's largest oil sands producers are working together to address climate change through the Pathways Alliance. The initiative is a crucial enabler to meeting Canada's climate commitments and requires unprecedented collaboration.

World's first renewable power for offshore oil and gas
  • Map-pinNorway

Equinor, Wintershall Dea, OMV, and INPEX Idemitsu are working collaboratively with other partners in the development of the Hywind Tampen offshore wind farm in the Norwegian North Sea off the coast of Florø.

Decarbonizing air transport at scale
  • Map-pinSpain

Cepsa has formed a strategic partnership with Spanish airline Iberia and Iberia Express to decarbonize air transport on a large scale. The agreement, which includes research and flight testing of sustainable aviation biofuels also covers other energy alternatives, such as renewable hydrogen and electricity, to promote the sustainable mobility of aircraft and ground fleets.

Montney Water Hub offers ESG benefits in Cutbank Ridge
  • Map-pinUnited States

Ovintiv's water resource hubs in the Cutbank Ridge of its Montney operating area are closed-loop systems that run on hydropower. Since the hubs have opened, they have conserved approximately 1.3 billion gallons of freshwater, equivalent to the average annual water use of approximately 9,000 households.  

Improving energy efficiency at OxyChem plants
  • Map-pinUnited States

OxyChem operates a billion pound-per-year capacity ethylene cracker at its plant in Ingleside, Texas. OxyChem estimates that it is eliminating approximately 970,000 metric tons per year of total CO2e due to the highly efficient design.

Using innovative technology to upgrade flash gas
  • Map-pinUnited States

Shell installed technology in 2019 in its Permian Basin (Texas) asset to reduce oxygen concentrations in oil tank vapors. As a result the gas now meets pipeline quality specifications for off-site sales, allowing it to be monetized and reducing flaring by 40%.

Houston CCS Alliance
  • Map-pinUnited States

The Houston CCS Alliance is a coordinated effort among some of the world's most innovative energy, petrochemical, and power generation companies to advance the development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in the greater Houston industrial area.

Contribution to the Salk Institute's development of plant based carbon capture and storage
  • Map-pinUnited States

Hess is donating $50 million over the next five years to the Salk Institute's Harnessing Plants Initiative (HPI), which aims to combat climate change by developing plants' natural ability to capture and store potentially billions of tons of carbon per year from the atmosphere.

Supporting the Louisiana Coastal Restoration workforce
  • Map-pinUnited States

In the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, a region highly vulnerable to climate change, Kosmos Energy partnered with Tierra Resources, a Louisiana-based non-profit focused on wetlands restoration and the development of blue carbon capture projects.

Supporting native Texas grasslands
  • Map-pinUnited States

Since 2015, EOG has supported Texan by Nature, a collaborative partnership between natural resource users and conservation experts to promote conservation efforts that help sustain Texas's working lands, water supplies, and wildlife.

Acoustic marine monitoring project for offshore wind
  • Map-pinUnited States

Empire Wind (a 50:50 partnership with bp) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced in September 2022 the extension to 2028 of their historic agreement to monitor large whales in the lease area of Empire Wind. The new agreement ensures that important data to protect wildlife in the New York Bight will be collected during the pre-construction, construction, and post-construction phases of the wind project.

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