External Collaboration and Engagement

We focus our external engagement on:

  • Developing industry leading practices, guidance and conducting benchmarking with industry organizations.
  • Collaborating with local and regional communities, peer companies and industry groups.
  • Supporting research and educational initiatives.

We collaborate and engage with Ipieca, the global oil and gas industry association for environmental and social issues and the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP). In 2022, we collaborated with the Ipieca Environment, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and Water working groups on nature-related disclosure and reporting, nature-positive, protected areas reporting, post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework implementation, Biodiversity Action Plan guidance and nature-based solutions. In addition, we collaborated with IOGP on habitat retention strategies for decommissioned offshore jacket structures.

We also collaborate with local, regional and international stakeholders and industry groups, including:

  • Alaska: North Slope Science Initiative, Bureau of Land Management.
  • Australia: Gas Industry Social & Environmental Research Alliance, Gladstone Healthy Harbour Partnership, Port Curtis Integrated Monitoring Program.
  • Canada: Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA), Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT), Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) and the Northeast British Columbia Montney Operators Group.
  • U.S. Lower 48: National Alliance for Water Innovation, New Mexico Produced Water Research Consortium, Texas Produced Water Consortium, South Texas Energy and Economic Roundtable Water Sustainability Committee, the Energy Water Initiative, PARETO – The Produced Water Optimization Initiative, Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute, Texas A&M University-Kingsville Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute Texas Native Seeds Program, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Sul Ross State University Borderlands Research Institute, Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, New Mexico LPC/DSL Technical Committee, Respect Big Bend Coalition.
  • Corporate: Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Biodiversity Standard Technical Committee, Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosure (TNFD) Stakeholder Group and World Benchmarking Alliance Nature and Biodiversity Benchmark draft methodology through Ipieca, and Science-based Target Network (SBTN) Corporate Engagement Program.