Our main Committees and groups
Energy Transition Directorate Committees and groups
Carbon Capture, Transportation, and Storage Committee
Chair: Jason Ashurst, Chevron;
Vice-Chair: Jamie White, ExxonMobil
Director: Faye Gerard
Manager: Kevin Spencer
Launched in 2022, the Carbon Capture, Transportation, and Storage Committee will focus on accelerating the standardization of CCS to improve its cost, scheduling, and safety, thus ensuring widespread implementation of CCS. It will collaborate with other associations working in the climate change space, as well as with international and regional regulators and standards organizations.
Technical Steering
Carbon T&S
CO2 Capture Evaluation
Low Carbon Operational Efficiency Committee
Chair: Andy Best, bp; Krish Ravishankar, Oxy
Director: Dr Faye Gerard
Manager: Dario Buccellato
Launched in 2022, the Low Carbon Operational Efficiency Committee will focus on decreasing CO2 emissions and methane intensity in upstream operations. It will coordinate its efforts with global industry groups including OGCI, Ipieca, API, EI, MGP, and GGFR.
Energy Transition Metrics
Electrification Technology Deployment Catalogue
Energy Efficiency Compendium
Energy Efficiency Operational Best Practices
Flares & Vents Database venting situations
Flares & Vents Minimize/avoid flaring RP
Methane Emissions
Engineering Directorate Committees and groups
Engineering Leadership Council
Chair: Wade Maxwell, ExxonMobil
The Engineering Leadership Council is a permanent advisory body reporting to the IOGP Management Committee. It brings together the heads of engineering from the 12 funding members of JIP33 to drive a collaborative engineering agenda.
The ELC is now examining more initiatives to support other relevant, strategic topics within the engineering arena such as low carbon and digitalization.
Digital Transformation Committee
Chair: Rob Kelly, bp
Vice Chairs: Keith Johnston, Chevron; Milenija Stojkovic Helgesen, Equinor
Director: Sajeev Menon
Manager: Lucyna Kryla-Straszewska
The Digital Transformation Committee coordinates
the various digital transformation initiatives and
builds capability for the oil and gas industry.
Industry value is created by enabling data interoperability
that transforms existing workflows and creates new,
industry-wide business models.
Change Management and Strategic Communication (CMEG)
Digital Skills (DSEG)
Digital Platforms (DPEG)
Opportunities Screening (OSEG)
Geomatics Committee
Chair: Yen Puasa, Shell
Vice Chair: Walter Jardine, independent
Director: Sajeev Menon
Manager: Lucyna Kryla-Straszewska
The purpose of the Geomatics Committee is to provide advocacy, knowledge sharing and guidance, data exchange formats and models, test data, and geodetic parameters.
Geomatics is essential throughout the field lifecycle, from exploration to retirement, to prevent potential significant impact on business and HSSE.
Geodesy
Geo-Information
Geophysical Operations
Remote Sensing
Surveying & Positioning
4D Seismic Survey Guidelines
Comprehensive Standard Legend (CSL)
Drilling Hazard Site Survey (DHSS) Revision
GeoRepository Support
Geospatial Integrity of Geoscience Software (GIGS) Support
Offshore Infrastructure Survey Data Model (OISDM)
Industry Technical Specification for Fundamental Surface Survey Sensors
P Formats Revision
Seabed Survey Data Model Revision (SSDM) Revision
Unified Symbology for Data Models
Standards Committee
Chair: Cecilie A Haarseth, ExxonMobil
Vice Chair: Lokesh Kalra, Chevron; Rolf Hanekamhaug, Equinor
Director: Sajeev Menon
Manager: Sze Wei Kan
The Standards Committee’s aim is to improve the safety and integrity of capital facilities and lower their lifecycle cost profiles. It does this by promoting and enabling the creation of a single set of international standards that can be recognized globally and used locally worldwide.
Coatings
Electrical
Information Standards
Instrument & Automation
Materials & Corrosion
Mechanical
Offshore Structures
Piping & Valves
Administration
API6A CRA
Electrical Control & Power Management Systems
Non Metallics
Normally Unattended Facilities (NUF)
Offshore Cranes
API6A CRA
Offshore Structures Specifications
Process Instruments for Low Carbon applications
Requirements Digitalization
RP 547 Update
Standards Landscape
Subsea Committee
Chair: Roald Sirevaag, Equinor
Director: Sajeev Menon
Manager: Diana Khatun
The Subsea Committee improves HSSE performance and contributes to value creation by focusing on subsea hardware and controls, SURF (subsea facilities from tubing hanger to boarding valve, umbilicals, risers, and flowlines) and the underwater portions of export systems, including pipelines, risers, and isolation valves.
Flexible Pipes
Remote Inspection
Thermoplastic Composite Pipe
Subsea CCS
Environment Directorate Committees and groups
Decommissioning Committee
Chair: Bert Fokkema, Shell
Vice Chairs: John Gillies, ExxonMobil; Eduardo Hebert Zacaron Gomes, Petrobras
Director: Harvey Johnstone
Manager: Ping Teo
The Decommissioning Committee shares international experience and good practice to influence the development and implementation of decommissioning policy and guidance worldwide. We aspire to create a global collaboration framework for decommissioning.
APAC
Europe-Mediterranean
Asset Retirement Obligations
Comparative assessment
FPSO Decommissioning
Methane/Wells P&A
Environment Committee
Chairs: Charlie Wood, Shell; Khomsan Lertwiriyaprapa, PTTEP
Director: Harvey Johnstone
Manager: Ezzaini Ramli
Committee Coordinator: James Gordon Ballard
The Environment Committee shares and develops knowledge of the environmental impacts of the oil and gas industry to improve operational practices. The Environment Committee also coordinates and advocates for the exploration and production industry on environmental issues of international significance
Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services Working Group
Chemicals
Environmental Data
Environment Regional Seas
Sound & Marine Life
Arctic
Biodiversity
Environmental Data Strategic Review
Mediterranean
Microplastics
Risk-Based Assessment for Produced Water
Waste
Metocean Committee
Chair: Oliver Jones, bp
Vice Chairs: Amy Guan, Chevron; Oleg Esenkov, ExxonMobil; Jason McConochie, Shell
Director: Harvey Johnstone
Manager: Birgitta Visser
The Metocean Committee encourages a better understanding of the value of meteorology and applied physical oceanography, and promotes better awareness and use of the best practical metocean techniques in facility design and operations.
Australia Metocean
West Africa Metocean
Climate Change Workshop (2023)
Current Processes
Extreme Weather
Offshore Wind
Regional Hindcast
Standards & Guidelines
Europe Directorate Committees and groups
European Board
Chair: Dawn Summers, WintershallDea
The European Board was established to give IOGP Europe a more ‘political’ dimension, high-level strategic guidance, and boost visibility. IOGP Europe’s purpose is to work constructively with policymakers over the coming years to turn the Green Deal’s general orientations into enabling policy measures that are inclusive, fair and cost-effective without compromising on climate ambition.
European Committee
Chair: Olav Syversen, Equinor
Vice Chairs: Nikolaas Baeckelmans, ExxonMobil; Aneta Wilmanska, Orlen S.A.
Director: François-Régis Mouton
Manager: Nareg Terzian
The European Committee represents the interests of IOGP Members by engaging with European policymakers to set the necessary conditions to enable the oil and gas industry to play an optimal role in contributing to the achievement of the EU’s 2050 climate neutrality objective. It is supported by the IOGP Europe office, which specializes in public affairs.
European Policy
European Outreach
European Communications
Supply Clean, Affordable & Secure Energy (SCASE)
Increasing EU’s climate ambition for 2030 & 2050 (30-50)
H2 & CCUS
Financing The Transition (FTI)
EU Environment & Blue Economy (EBE)
Safety Directorate Committees and groups
Health Committee
Chair: Guillermo Gomez, ENI
Vice Chairs: Susanne Schunder-Tatzber, OMV; Kees de Rooij, ExxonMobil
Director: Steve Norton
Manager: Ismaeel Husain
Committee Coordinator: Marinara Rosa
The Health Committee develops scientifically robust,
evidence based guidance and recommendations on
a range of strategic health issues, including occupational,
environmental, and public health. It works towards a
responsible and caring culture that enables people to
perform to the best of their potential.
Occupational Hygiene
Health Performance Indicators (HPI)
Health in the Energy Transition
Mental Health & Leadership
Safety Committee
Chair: Andrew Clarke, bp
Vice Chairs: Tahir Azhibekov, ADNOC; Ualikhan Zhanaissov, NCOC; Kirsty Walker, SLB
Director: Steve Norton
Manager: Ismaeel Husain
Co-ordinator: Marinara Rosa
The Safety Committee works to eliminate fatalities from our industry. It enables workplace cultures in which human performance principles are embedded in the design and operation of work environments, leadership sets a tone of trust and inclusion, and the well-being of workforces is a shared imperative. The Committee demonstrates leadership to the industry in using technology to enhance workplace health and safety.
Aviation
Diving Operations
Geophysical HSSE
Human Factors
Land Transportation
Process Safety
Safety Data
Adoption & Implementation
Contractor Management
Control of Work
Fatality & Permanent Impairment
Life-saving Rules
Process Safety Fundamentals
Process Safety in Design
Risk Assessment Data Directory
Safety Award
Ships Husbandry
Security Committee
Chair: Charlie Weeks, ExxonMobil
Vice Chair: Jamie Jemmeson, ConocoPhillips
Director: Steve Norton
Manager: Diana Khatun
The Security Committee promotes a safe and secure operating environment by mitigating security threats to people, assets, information, operations, and reputation. This is achieved by implementing robust threat and risk assessment processes and minimizing the impact from security-related incidents.
Wells Expert Committee
Chair: Paul Forman, bp
Vice Chair: Alexandre Depiesse, TotalEnergies
Director: Steve Norton
Manager: Diana Khatun
The purpose of the Wells Expert Committee is to improve well operators’ effectiveness throughout the well lifecycle, but particularly during well construction and well work, recognizing that such events pose the highest risk to safety, the environment, and the industry’s licence to operate. Its focus is the prevention and mitigation of high consequence well control events.
Well Control Incidents
Wells Competency & Training
Well Control Systems
Subsea Well Response & Source Control
Pore Pressure Fracture Gradient
Wells Energy Transition Liaison
Well Standards Liaison
Communications Directorate groups
Strategic Communications Panel
Chair: Steve Shaw, bp
Director: Sujatani Poosparajah
Manager: Danny Walsh
Leveraging existing resources and expertise from within Member companies, the Strategic Communications Panel helps ensure a clear, consistent, and compelling voice for IOGP.
On behalf of IOGP’s Management Committee and Members, it assists the Association’s Secretariat in advancing the industry’s reputation, addressing external stakeholders, and those within Member companies and organizations.
Finance and Operations groups
Legal Advisory Panel
Chair: Catherine Marchand Støle, Equinor
Manager: Felicite Robertson
The Legal Advisory Panel endeavours to support IOGP by providing tools, guidelines, and analysis of legal frameworks, existing or future, that are of common relevance to the members of IOGP.
Legal Advisory Expert Group
Tax Expert Group