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Process safety – recommended practice on key performance indicators
This report provides guidance on identifying leading and lagging process safety KeyPerformance Indicators (KPIs) for the upstream oil and gas industry.
Safety Leadership in Practice: A Guide for Managers
This report is designed to support senior and/or middle management and supervisors in applying the Safety Leadership Characteristics described in Report 452 and creating a workplace culture that values safety.
Life-Saving Rules
With the revision of Report 459, IOGP launches a simplified set of Life-Saving Rules to provide workers in the industry with the actions they can take to protect themselves and their colleagues from fatalities.
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Building an inclusive workforce in the oil and gas industry
The International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (IOGP) Workforce Energy Task Force completed a baseline study in 2022 to investigate how to secure the necessary talent and skills to deliver secure, affordable, and lower carbon energy solutions for all and facilitate digital transformation – while enabling an equitable energy transition.
Sustainability reporting guidance for the oil and gas industry
The Sustainability reporting guidance for the oil and gas industry is a key tool to help companies shape the structure and content of their sustainability reporting.
Introducing JIP33: Standardizing procurement specifications
JIP33 is making a step-change improvement in the specification, procurement and delivery of equipment for the oil and gas industry, through the use of standardized industry procurement specifications.
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Health leading performance indicators – 2025 data
IOGP’s annual data series assists companies with benchmarking and enables continuous improvement efforts. Leading health performance indicators have been published annually since 2011. In 2023, the health performance indicators were revised to simplify the scoring system and introduce a more granular list of scores to enable reporting organizations to better reflect their continual improvement efforts.
Health performance indicators – 2025 data – executive summary
This executive summary outlines the main trends from IOGP’s annual health performance data analysis. It is supplemental to IOGP Report 2025h.
S-745 High-voltage Synchronous Machines (IEC) v1.01
The purpose of the IOGP S-745 specification documents is to define a minimum common set of requirements for the procurement of high-voltage synchronous machines in accordance with IEC 60034-1, Edition 14.0, February 2022, Rotating electrical machines – Part 1: Rating and performance, for application in the petroleum and natural gas industries.
S-562 Ball Valves (API) v4.0
The purpose of the IOGP S-562 specification documents is to define a minimum common set of requirements for the procurement of ball valves in accordance with API Specification 6D, 25th Edition published November 2021 and Addendum 2, published September 2024, for application in the petroleum and natural gas industries.
ETRS89 in the EPSG Dataset
This Guidance Note explains how ETRS89 regional and national realizations are available in the EPSG Dataset, in particular related to naming conventions and use of the datum ensemble. This caters to highest-accuracy users who require exact definition of coordinate epoch and realization as well as regular users who can work within the accuracy of the
IOGP Report 373-07-2 – Coordinate conversions and transformation including formulas
This document provides a detailed explanation of formulas necessary for executing coordinate conversions and transformations using the coordinate operation methods supported in the EPSG dataset. Geodetic parameters in the Dataset are consistent with these formulas.