Standards

More than ever, operators, suppliers, contractors and drilling companies alike are aware of the need for and value of comprehensive sets of standards that provide greater consistency of safe practices worldwide.

Standards

More than ever, operators, suppliers, contractors and drilling companies alike are aware of the need for and value of comprehensive sets of standards that provide greater consistency of safe practices worldwide.

More than ever, operators, suppliers, contractors and drilling companies alike are aware of the need for and value of comprehensive sets of standards that provide greater consistency of safe practices worldwide.

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IOGP Standards Committee

Working together for improved standards

Industry uses standards to enhance technical integrity, improve safety, enable cost reductions and reduce the environmental impact of operations worldwide. Our work in promoting the development and use of international standards is crucial, not the least following recent well incidents. IOGP has taken a very clear position on the development and use of international standards for the benefit of its members and industry alike (IOGP Report No. 381). In these days of restrictive trade measures, IOGP has temporarily taken on an important role of harbouring a lot of this work under the Standards Solution.

The existence and application of such standards is equally important for national regulators who have a significant role to play in the process of standards development. For example, this could include the selection of topics for standardization, the development of new standards and the use of completed standards as part of the regulatory landscape with the benefit of harmonization and reducing the differences in the many national regulations IOGP members are facing in operations around the globe.

The International Regulators’ Forum (IRF) is the principal international regulatory forum for offshore safety. This network encompasses highly experienced offshore safety regulators from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the UK, and the USA.

The IRF has recently become more involved in the process of standards development and promotion. Following the IRF’s Summit Conference in Stavanger in 2011, members voted their support for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards system – and International and Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) for electrical issues. The IRF deemed the work of these bodies the best ways to achieve globally agreed offshore standards. At the same time, the IRF acknowledged the crucial role that relevant national and regional standards would continue to play when equivalent ISO or IEC are not yet available.

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  • AFNOR (L’Association Française de Normalisation)
  • ANSI  (American National Standards Institute)
  • ASME  (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
  • ASTM  (American Society for Testing and Materials)
  • API  (American Petroleum Institute)
    API is the major national trade association representing the entire petroleum industry: exploration and production, transportation, refining, and marketing. It is a forum for all parts of the oil and natural gas industry to pursue priority public policy objectives and advance the interests of the industry in a legally appropriate manner.
  • BSN (National Standardization Agency of Indonesia)
  • BNPé (Bureau de Normalisation du Pétrole)
  • BSI  (British Standards Institution)
  • CEN  (European Committee for Standardization)
    CEN’s mission is to promote voluntary technical harmonisation in Europe in conjunction with worldwide bodies and its partners in Europe. It does this by encouraging the development and formal adoption of European Standards on the basis of voluntary agreement between all the interested parties.
  • CSA (Canadian Standards Association)
  • DIN  (The German Institute for Standardization)
  • DSM (Department of Standards Malaysia)
  • EEMUA  (Engineering Equipment and Materials Users Association)
  • IEC  (International Electrotechnical Commission)
    The International Electrotechnical Commission is the international standards and conformity assessment body for all fields of electrotechnology.
  • IEE  (The Institution of Electrical Engineers)
  • IEEE  (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
  • IMechE  (The Institution of Mechanical Engineers)
  • International Regulators’ Forum – Global offshore safety
  • ISO  (International Organization for Standardization)
    The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies from some 130 countries, one from each country. Its aim is to promote the worldwide development of standardization and related activities.
  • ITU (International Telecommunication Union)
    The ITU is an international organization within which governments and the private sector coordinate global telecom networks and services.
  • JISC (Industrial Standardization in Japan)
  • NEN (The Netherlands NEN)
  • NORSOK  (NORSOK Standards)
  • Oil & Gas UK (formerly UKOOA)
  • OSHA  (Occupational Safety & Health Administration)
  • Petroleum Industry Practices
  • SAC (Standardization Administration of China)
  • SIRIM  (The Standards and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia)
  • SNAME (The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers)
  • Standards Australia
  • Standards Council of Canada
  • ISO/TC67
    The ISO/TC 67 Secretariat is now (since 2009) administered by the Netherlands national standards organization (NEN) after twenty years of US (ANSI/API) administration. The ISO/TC67 website provides up-to-date information on ISO/TC 67 standards published, business plan, scope, organization, work programme etc. and meeting dates for ISO/TC 67 plenary committee and its subcommittees.
  • WTO  (World Trade Organization)
    The WTO is the only international organization dealing with the global rules of trade between nations. Its main function is to ensure that trade flows as smoothly, predictably and freely as possible.

Data Standards Opportunity Survey

IOGP’s Information Standards subcommittee commissioned a survey of oil and gas industry professionals to identify opportunities for the creation of a generic, industry-level architecture for data standards requirements. The survey, analysis, and subsequent report were conducted and assembled by a third party contractor, Visual Reliability LLC. This document is not an IOGP Report and does not contain IOGP guidance or recommendations. It is being made available by the IOGP Standards Committee for informational purposes only.

Download: Data Standards Opportunity Survey

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