2006, International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association (IPIECA)
The 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development marked an increase in the number of partnerships targeting sustainable development goals. Partnerships have since been highlighted as an important cross-cutting theme and enabling mechanism.
The IPIECA Publication, Partnerships in the Oil and Gas Industry (2006) communicates how the oil and gas industry is using partnerships to respond to challenges of meeting global energy demand and to contribute to sustainable development. The publication explores the partnering process through challenges and lessons learned identified by IPIECA members and their partners in the forty case studies featured.
The past decade has seen a step change in the number of multi-stakeholder partnering initiatives in the oil and gas industry. This publication consciously adopts a broad understanding of the concept of multistakeholder partnership to recognize the value that can be brought by different variations on the partnering set-up. In this context, the publication explores partnerships that are variously research, policy or product driven; that involve different combinations of NGOs, governments, international governmental organizations, community groups, and oil and gas companies; that encompass varying degrees of contractual obligation; and that span from 2 to 200 participants.
The 40 case studies that make up this publication have been selected to reflect a diversity of experience from 19 IPIECA member companies and associations, and to cover a broad range of sustainability challenges and themes. The partnerships were selected for their ability to draw out the lessons that the partners learned through their collaboration and to identify what key ingredients may contribute to a partnership’s effectiveness.
Through recording the experiences of the partners, this publication aims to document the progress that is being made towards sustainability goals by the oil and gas industry and its partners, and to explore how partnering mechanisms have evolved during this period. It is hoped that, through frank examination of the partners’ lessons learned, this publication will serve as a useful learning tool for others embarking on multi-stakeholder partnerships.
