The resources listed below may be useful for oil and gas companies to implement the impact pathways detailed in the Roadmap and operationalise the SDGs.
- All IPIECA resources can be found here.
- WBCSD resources can be accessed on the WBCSD website.
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Climate
- Addressing adaptation in the oil and gas industry
- Climate change: a glossary of terms (5th edition)
- Exploring the concept of ‘unburnable carbon’
- Guidelines for implementing ISO 50001 energy management systems in the oil and gas industry
Low-emissions pathways
- Exploring low-emissions pathways for transport
- Exploring low-emissions pathways: Advancing the Paris Puzzle
- Making the case for carbon capture and storage
- The Paris Puzzle: The pathway to a low-emissions future
Transparency and reporting
- IPIECA-API-IOGP Sustainability Reporting Guidance
- Estimating petroleum industry value chain (Scope 3) greenhouse gas emissions: Overview of methodologies
- Petroleum industry guidelines for reporting greenhouse gas emissions (2nd edition)
- The role of scenario analysis in climate reporting
Emissions management
- Addressing uncertainty in oil and natural gas industry greenhouse gas inventories: Technical considerations and calculation methods
- Energy and greenhouse gas efficiency compendium
- Exploring methane emissions
- Methane glossary
- Oil and natural gas industry guidelines for greenhouse gas reduction projects: carbon capture and geological storage emission reduction project family
- Preparing effective flare management plans
- Saving energy in the oil and gas industry
- The expanding role of natural gas: Comparing lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions
Fuels and products
- GHG emissions and the cost of carbon abatement for light-duty road vehicles
- Joint Industry Guidance on the supply and use of 0.50%-sulphur marine fuels
- Lower-sulphur fuels, road transport strategies and air quality improvements
- Lower-sulphur fuels, road transport strategies and air quality improvements (Executive summary)
- Management and remediation of sites in the petroleum industry
- Mercury management in petroleum refining
- Petroleum refinery waste management and minimization
- Refinery air emissions management
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Nature
- Environmental management in the upstream oil and gas industry
- The application of Globally Harmonized System (GHS) criteria to petroleum substances
- The IPIECA water management framework – to be updated in late March
- Mercury management in petroleum refining
- Managing biodiversity & ecosystem services (BES) issues along the asset lifecycle in any environment: 10 tips for success in the oil and gas industry
- A cross-sector guide for implementing the mitigation hierarchy
- Biodiversity and ecosystem services fundamentals
- Biodiversity and ecosystem services fundamentals: A summary
- Water risk assessment in the oil and gas sector: an overview
- Reuse of produced water from the onshore oil and gas industry
- Managing biodiversity and ecosystem services in oil and gas development: Mainstreaming the mitigation hierarchy (2020)
- Good practices for the collection of biodiversity baseline data
- Identifying and assessing water sources
- Efficiency in water use
- Biodiversity and ecosystem services horizon scanning 2021
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People
- Integrating human rights into environmental, social and health impact assessments
- Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights: Implementation Guidance Tools
- Health management in the oil and gas industry
- Community liaison officers team building and management guidance
- Creating successful, sustainable social investment. (2nd edition)
- Local content. A guidance document for the oil and gas industry (2nd edition)
- Community grievance mechanisms in the oil and gas industry
- Please visit IPIECA’s website for guidance on:
- Human rights: which includes guidance on due diligence, impact assessments, worker and community grievance mechanisms, and labour rights in the supply chain.
- Responsible security: where you can find implementation guidance on the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, as well as a host government engagement strategy tool and host country security assessment guide.
- Engaging with communities and Indigenous Peoples
- Community and occupational health