A growing human population places greater demand on the Earth’s limited supply of natural resources, which makes other species more vulnerable to a loss of their natural habitats and biological diversity. Although the oil and natural gas industry has engaged in environmental partnerships over the years to promote conservation and wildlife protection programs, the industry is taking more aggressive steps to integrate biodiversity conservation into its operational practices by partnering with other institutions to measure biodiversity impacts and employ new technologies to minimize its environmental footprint.
For example, Shell and the Smithsonian Institution signed a five-year memorandum of understanding in June 2000 to assess the impact of Shell operations on areas of high biodiversity value. The first joint project in the Gamba complex in Gabon follows extensive national and international consultation including feedback from a stakeholder workshop. Chevron Niugini Ltd., with help from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), formed The Community Development Initiative (CDI) Foundation to protect the fragile rainforests of Papua New Guinea for generations to come. Petro-Canada in partnership with the Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development, conducted a Life-Cycle Value Assessment of the MacKay River oil sands project to reduce environmental impacts. A number of companies, such as Shell, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil, have implemented a variety of different wildlife conservation programs in partnership with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
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About 100 miles southeast of Galveston, Texas, in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, Anadarko is continuously collaborating with industry, federal and state government agencies and researchers to protect the northernmost coral reefs on North America's continental shelf.
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ConocoPhillips is a long-time supporter of the Nature Conservancy and recently donated $1 million to the Nature Conservancy of Alaska, making the largest corporate gift to conservation in Alaska's history. ENV-COP-7
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Conservation Volunteers Australia and BHP Billiton are celebrating ten years of a successful partnership delivering Australia’s largest national wetlands revival program.
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The Conservation Leadership Programme (formerly called the BP Conservation Programme) has promoted pioneering scientific projects worldwide as part of its contribution to global conservation priorities since it began in 1990. ENV-BP-2
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BP is providing sponsorship to the Nature Conservancy to support research and a conservation and recovery program for the island fox.
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BP’s Cooper River plant in South Carolina has a large area of land under its stewardship, much of it rich in biodiversity. After Hurricane Hugo destroyed much of the forest in 1989, BP increased its efforts to restore and enhance the site’s forest and wildlife resources.
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BP in Spain is working with the Global Nature Fund, (a private, non-profit foundation dedicated to protecting the environment), to support the needs of the lynx. With the advice of the Worldwide Fund for Nature, BP is also helping to restore lynx habitat in southwestern Spain operating with the NGOs Fundación Doñana and Estación Biológica de Doñana.
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When local employees realized that a peninsula of land at BP’s Galeota Point terminal on the southeastern tip of Trinidad was going to waste as an obsolete machinery store, they decided it was time they did something about it. The Galeota promontory had once been a stopping-off point for many bird species on migratory routes across the Caribbean, and the team determined to try and restore the land as a bird sanctuary.
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Marine turtles are some of the ocean’s most magnificent creatures, but their survival is threatened by egg collecting, fishing practices, shoreline development, loss of habitat, marine pollution, and by being hunted for their shells and meat. Many conservation efforts have focused on establishing turtle sanctuaries where eggs can be collected and safely hatched. The Ma’Daerah model is a unique achievement. It is the first sanctuary initiated in partnership between the Department of Fisheries, WWF Malaysia and BP.
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Chevron Niugini Ltd. (CNGL), with help from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), formed a unique NGO to protect the fragile rainforests of Papua New Guinea for generations to come. – Community Dev. Initiative (CDI).
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Ongoing ChevronTexaco efforts to protect Barrow include: active environmental research; upgraded weed control, and biological monitoring.
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In a first-ever collaboration of industry, government, and academe, Caltex (Philippines) Inc. helped launch the “Good Roots” Project on Earth Day 1991. ENV-CT-3
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Chevron and the American Geological Institute (AGI) announced a donation from Chevron to AGI of thousands of miles of historic 2D and 3D seismic data covering offshore California and portions of the West Coast of the U.S. ENV-CT-12
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ConocoPhillips has been the lead corporate participant in the PLJV since its inception, providing in-kind support, employee expertise and more than $1 million in cash contributions.
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ConocoPhillips is a corporate sponsor of the National Audubon Society. Founded in 1905, the organization is named for John James Audubon (1785-1851), famed ornithologist, explorer and wildlife artist. The Society's mission is to preserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity. The organization’s national network of community-based nature centers and chapters, scientific and educational programs and advocacy on behalf of all sustaining important bird populations, engage millions of people of all ages and backgrounds in positive emulation experiences.
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ConocoPhillips has been a key financial sponsor of the Sutton Avian Research Center in Bartlesville, OK, since its inception in 1984.
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ConocoPhillips is a supporter of International Crane Foundation (ICF), which is researching the migration of several species of cranes from their breeding grounds in the remote tundra of Yakutia in Siberia.
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For more than a decade, ConocoPhillips and the Foundation have worked hand-in-hand to conserve birds and other wildlife, while educating children and adults about the natural world.
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One of ConocoPhillips’ particular environmental interests is conserving the natural habitat of migratory birds, an objective that has been among the company’s charitable priorities since the 1970s. Consequently, in 2005 ConocoPhillips founded the SPIRIT of Conservation Bird Program, an outgrowth of the company’s long-working relationship with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF). The program strives to protect, restore and improve the natural systems and habitats upon which migratory birds depend for survival, and to benefit declining bird species. ENV-COP-9
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In 2000, the Alberta Chamber of Resources (ACR), an association of resource industries, established the need for a new program to look for opportunities for industry to minimize their disturbance to the environment through improved collaboration.
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ConocoPhillips staff has been involved in the early work to initiate the Prototype Project and has committed $80,000 over 2003 and 2004 to this important work. The company has partnered with Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc. to share road access and plan timber harvest in project areas that require clearing. This process, called Integrated Landscape Management, helps reduce the environmental footprint on the land by coordinating resource development.
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ConocoPhillips is studying the biodiversity issue and plans to develop a strategy for providing a consistent way to protect and conserve biodiversity. One example can be found in the partnerships with diverse organizations the company is forming to protect the biodiversity of eastern Venezuela’s Gulf of Paria.
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Some offshore platforms never die. They just sink into the sea and become ecological assets. The massive steel structures jutting from blue waters in the Gulf of Mexico can serve dual lives. For years, they recover oil and natural gas far below the ocean floor. When the reserves are gone, many cycle to a new phase as underwater refuges for red snapper, king mackerel, cobia, shark and an assortment of other marine life.
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Secretary of the Interior awarded the 2008 Cooperative Conservation Award to the New Mexico Bureau of Land Management and Devon as partner for the "Restore New Mexico" program. The national award was based on the terms of excellent collaboration to restore critical wildlife habitat in southeast New Mexico.
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ExxonMobil Pipeline Company joined with regulatory agencies to increase habitat for protected coastal birds near the busy Houston Ship Channel in Texas.
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ExxonMobil and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation established the Save the Tiger Fund (STF) in 1995.
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Since 1999, ExxonMobil has sponsored fur seal tracking research. This has significantly increased understanding of the feeding and breeding habits of this protected species.
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Exxon Mobil's headquarters in Irving, Texas, the Billings Refinery in Billings, Montana, the Clinton Research Facility in Clinton Township, New Jersey, and the Black Canyon Dehydration Facility in Kemmerer, Wyoming, received the Wildlife Habitat Council’s certification for efforts to conserve and restore natural ecosystems in and around company operations.
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Through the Wildlife Habitat Council’s Corporate Lands for Learning® (CLL) program, Marathon’s Catlettsburg, Kentucky, Refinery Wildlife Team volunteers have hosted more than 600 school children for natural science and conservation programs at the refinery’s Savage Branch Reserve. The team also has provided off-site outreach programs to more than 800 school children from four local school districts.
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Murphy Oil has developed partnerships to promote best practices and enhanced environmental protection for the future. Six programs exemplify Murphy's leadership.
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Working with the Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development, an independent public-interest and advocacy organization and non-profit consulting group.
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Petro-Canada is a key player in the implementation of One Ocean, which provides a neutral forum for the fishing and petroleum industries to communicate, exchange information and share opportunities.
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In 1998 the Shell Oil Company Foundation and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation announced at a special ceremony the single largest corporate donation ever made in support of marine conservation. Shell's unprecedented $5 million gift over five years has been used by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to create a conservation fund called the Shell Marine Habitat Program that will support projects to conserve, protect and enhance the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem.
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The goals of the Flower Valley project are to conserve the biodiversity of the lowland fynbos; to generate livelihoods in an area of high unemployment through sustainable harvesting of the fynbos flowers and associated micro-enterprises, such as paper-making; and to improve the quality of life of farm workers and their families through the provision of education and health services.
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Shell and the Smithsonian Institution (SI) signed a five-year Memorandum of Understanding in June 2000, under which the SI is assessing the impact of Shell operations on areas of high biodiversity value. The first joint project in the Gamba complex in Gabon follows extensive national and international consultation including feedback from a stakeholder workshop.
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In 2003, Shell committed $3 million to the educational fund of America’s WETLAND: Campaign to Save Coastal Louisiana.
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Program conserves natural habitats, sustains wildlife, benefits local economies and communities.
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The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and Unocal are collaborating on a five-year research and conservation project in Alaska that will lead to better understanding of Cook Inlet beluga whales and help assure their healthy, viable population.
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Unocal is pleased to support the Balikpapan Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOS), a non-profit organization that is carrying out a unique conservation project at the Wanariset Station on the island of Borneo.
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The Nature Conservancy and Unocal are collaborating to involve local communities to build awareness and promote conservation and sustainable livelihoods in a “ridges to reefs” initiative in imperiled marine and terrestrial landscapes near Berau in the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan. ENV-UN-3
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Unocal Geothermal Indonesia and the Unocal Foundation are involved with local researchers, community groups, and Wildlife Trust to conduct research and education and promote sustainable small enterprises and local farmers and villagers based on the rich biodiversity in the Gunung Salak Nature Reserve in Indonesia.
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Unocal recently became involved with the Coastal Resources Management Plan project in Indonesia – a collaborative effort among a growing number of community associations, nongovernmental organizations, companies, and government agencies (global and local) to develop a plan for managing the important coastal resources of Balikpapan and surrounding communities along the East Kalimantan coast.
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