Decommissioning
Leading the sharing of international experience and good practice, advocating for risk-based decommissioning policy and guidance
Decommissioning
Leading the sharing of international experience and good practice, advocating for risk-based decommissioning policy and guidance
Decommissioning Committee
Vision
The vision of the IOGP Decommissioning Committee is to be the global voice for decommissioning, with the Committee recognized as a leader in the sharing of international experience and good practice with the intent of supporting members in their decommissioning projects and intelligently influencing the development and implementation of decommissioning policy and guidance worldwide.
Objectives
The objectives of the Committee are to support the Membership in the planning, funding, and delivery of decommissioning projects that are safe, environmentally responsible, and cost efficient and to deploy initiatives to share this with external stakeholders.
It does this by providing.
- Technical leadership through guidance, papers and studies to deliver safe, responsible and efficient decommissioning projects
- Advocacy to influence regulatory development of decommissioning policy and guidance worldwide
- Communication and Outreach to share experiences and offer expertise to stakeholders supported by sound data and evidences.
Priority areas
The following are some of the topics currently being addressed by the Committee:
- Asset Retirement Obligations/ Pre-Project Cost estimating
- Benchmarking of decommissioning performance data
- Decommissioning decision process and tools
- Environmental impacts of Assets decommissioned in-situ
- Response to potential new decommissioning policies in the EU and regional seas Convention forum (OSPAR, Barcelona).
Governance and Structure
The Decommissioning Committee comprises of Decommissioning Professionals from IOGP Member organisations. It is chaired by Bert Fokkema- Shell, with John Gillies- ExxonMobil as its vice-chair. It has the following subcommittees set up to focus regional specific discussions:
- APAC Sub Committee, co-chaired by Ariff Irfan Zainai – Petrobras
- Europe-Mediterranean Sub-Committee, co-chaired by Christian Schwarck- Shell and Joe Leask – bp.
The Committee sits under the IOGP Environment Directorate. For more information, contact IOGP Senior Manager- Decommissioning pte@iogp.org or IOGP Environment Director hj@iogp.org
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Related publications
- Guidelines for upstream pre-project decommissioning estimates
- Overview of International Offshore Decommissioning Regulations – Volume 2: Wells Plugging & Abandonment
- Decommissioning workshop on comparative assessment processes
- Habitat retention strategies for decommissioned offshore jacket structures/Estratégias para retenção de habitat associados a plataformas fixas de O&G descomissionadas
- Habitat retention strategies for decommissioned offshore jacket structures
- Asset Retirement Obligations (ARO)
- Ecology of steel piled jackets and subsea infrastructure briefing (Restricted to IOGP Members)
- Offshore oil and gas pipeline decommissioning briefing
- Decommissioning of Offshore Concrete Gravity Based Structures (CGBS) in the OSPAR Maritime Area / Other Global Regions
- Overview of International Offshore Decommissioning Regulations – Volume 1: Facilities