How Ipieca supports water stewardship
Water is an essential component in oil, gas and alternative energy operations, in fact almost any kind of energy resource requires water at some point in its life cycle. At the same time, the water supply and treatment sector is a major energy user - with much of the energy needed to collect, treat and transport water produced by the oil and gas industry.
Ipieca supports the oil and gas industry to proactively identify potential water risks and to manage water issues. Ipieca develops and shares good practice guidance and tools, provides peer-learning and knowledge sharing opportunities and contributes to global water initiatives, such as the Alliance for Water Stewardship.
Ipieca water good practice guidance and resources
Ipieca water management guidance covers water usage through its entire life cycle, from enhancing efficiency in the upstream onshore oil and gas industry to utilising produced water and understanding and evaluating water risk.
This guidance clarifies currently used terminology in the water stewardship space and presents users with a streamlined water stewardship action scheme that synthesises water frameworks and disclosure standards for the energy sector.
This enables companies to take an integrated approach to water management that accounts for the full impact of operations on local water resources through a process of planning, implementation, evaluation and review.
Water risk assessment in the oil and gas sector: an overview
This fact sheet provides a high-level overview of how companies in the oil and gas sector can define, assess and respond to water risks.
Reuse of produced water from the onshore oil and gas industry
This fact sheet evaluates the opportunities and challenges of reusing produced water for the onshore oil and gas industry.
