JIP33 is a proven success, delivering cost benefits, shorter lead times, improved quality, and more predictable project outcomes through industry-wide alignment.

It has been ten years since IOGP introduced the IOGP Standards Solution — an initiative that enables experts to contribute to ISO oil and gas standards while ensuring compliance with international sanctions against embargoed countries. This solution remains as vital today as it was at its inception.

IOGP’s Engineering Directorate has published its Q2 2025 highlights.

Earlier this year, the Normally Unattended Facilities (NUF) Expert Group within the Standards Committee held a workshop to launch the development of a comprehensive NUF guideline, the latest of the group’s key milestones towards standardization.

IOGP’s Engineering Directorate has published its Q1 2025 highlights.

The IOGP Standards Committee is pleased to announce the release of Report 684 – Electrical monitoring and control systems – Recommended practice.

IOGP’s newly launched Joint Industry Sprint (JIS02) to develop a harmonized industry specification for Additive Manufacturing (AM) of components in the oil and gas sector recently held its first workshop – to establish the scope and planned deliverables.

The IOGP Standards Committee recently welcomed Cecilie A. Haarseth of ExxonMobil as its new Chair. We caught up with her to find out more about her experience, this role, and how she plans to steer the Committee.

Projects in the oil and gas industry are large and complex, and project execution can be negatively affected by unclear or ambiguous technical requirements.

ISO has published an updated Standards for use in the oil & gas industry poster, which includes standards developed through the IOGP Standards solution. Previously published by IOGP, this poster is

JIP33 (IOGP’s Standardization of Procurement Specifications programme) is developing an industry standardised procurement specification for plate heat exchangers and is inviting suppliers to participate in the pre-framing phase of its development process.

JIP33 has issued the S-560 LV Switchgear and Controlgear specification for public review.  The consultation period will run for 5 weeks and will close on Monday, 07 March 2022 at 23:00 GMT.

JIP33 has issued two specifications for public review.

When the downturn took hold in 2014, there was widespread recognition that the industry needed to make significant changes to how it operated. Inefficiency, it was clear, was a major challenge.

In each edition of Pulse, we publish a short interview with an IOGP colleague or committee member. This month’s interview is with David Harris, Manager – JIP33 Published Specifications.

Ever been confused by the wording in a standard or specification?

Greater precision in the drafting of requirements for use in the oil and gas industry will make projects easier to manage and reduce risk.

It’s 2030. New facilities and field clusters are fully electrified. Drones autonomously patrol the skies and underwater infrastructure, checking for leaks or integrity issues.

In each edition of Pulse, we publish a short interview with an IOGP colleague or Committee Member. This month’s interview is with Sajeev Menon, IOGP’s recently appointed Standards Manager.

CFIHOS (Joint Industry Programme 36) aims to make information handover quicker, easier and safer for operators, contractors, equipment manufacturers and suppliers by using standardised specifications and change the way that

The primary aim of these documents is to harmonize the operating companies’ requirements and recommended practices to the subject matters.

Like the Joint Industry Project (JIP) 33, JIP 35 aims to achieve industry-level standardization. Its focus is on offshore structures specifications, driving reductions in upstream project costs through a decrease in variation in requirements between operating companies.

JIP33 has opened a new delivery centre at Aker Solutions’ Houston facilities. It joins the existing delivery centre in London and will focus on developing specifications that are important for the North American market.

CFIHOS (Capital Facilities Information Handover Specification), a new IOGP project, has set out to address this with a standard that adds value across the supply chain. It makes handovers easier, saves time and money, and supports reliability and safety throughout the lifecycle of a facility.​

A new IOGP initiative to reduce upstream project costs has published its first four specifications.

The IOGP-managed JIP33 held its first Industry Day on September 16, 2019, at BP’s Helios Plaza in Houston. It attracted 120 representatives from 41
organisations representing suppliers, engineering contractors and operators.

S-611 “Valve – Gate to API Spec 600 and API Spec 603″, alongside the others published to date, is available on the programme’s newly refreshed website – www.iogp-jip33.org for all to download and use on their projects

Talking about standards, BP Group Executive Director Bob Dudley said in his opening remarks at the recent IP Week in London: “I think the idea of everyone having their own designs will soon feel very old-fashioned.”

IOGP’s Standards Committee ended its busiest year ever with a meeting in Perth, Western Australia.

IOGP and the Unified Bulk Standardization Joint Industry Project (UBJIP) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on 1 March.  It outlines a firm commitment for close collaboration and mutual support

As ever, the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos attracted the world’s political and financial elite.  Also attending were IOGP Executive Director Gordon Ballard and JIP 33 Chair Ian Cummins

Appropriately, in the weeks leading to the year-end holiday period, IOGP published updated – and potentially universal — specifications for subsea Christmas trees. The report was prepared by Joint Industry 

‘Your phone, computer, kitchen appliances and television are probably more sophisticated than ever before. At the same time, they are more interdependent, more software reliant and so more difficult to

The IOGP-managed joint industry project (JIP33) on Standardization of Equipment Specifications for Procurement was initiated by operators and has the support of the World Economic Forum (WEF). The objective of the

With no budget, apart from the man-hour costs provided by each participant company, and a short timeframe, the IOGP IASSC Level Measurement Task Force faced a tough challenge in drafting

A new IOGP recommended practice aims to address the challenge of accurately measuring single and multi-layer level in the hydrocarbon processing industry. IOGP 547, Hydrocarbon process single and multi-layer level

“Standardization plays a key role in achieving volume on selected solutions, obtaining cost and time reductions and HSE and quality improvements,” says Roald Sirevaag of Statoil, who chairs IOGP’ Subsea

In a call to address the lack of practical standards for information exchange in the industry, the IOGP Standards Committee has initiated an “Information Standards Sub-Committee” for owner operators.  This

A group of 10 companies – BP, Total, Sonangol, Eni, Shell, Woodside, Engie, Saudi Aramco, Chevron and Statoil – kicked off a new joint industry project (JIP) for Standardization of

In March, IOGP’s Instrument & Automation Standards Subcommittee (IASSC) celebrated the publication of its latest recommended practice at Real Madrid’s Santiago Bernabéu stadium. Members planned the celebrations to coincide with

High integrity protection systems (HIPS) are becoming an increasingly common feature of oil and gas facilities worldwide. HIPS can provide an alternative to conventional mechanical protective devices (e.g. relief valves)

The Gulf Cooperation Council/Gulf Standards Organization (GSO) joined forces with IOGP in November for a workshop in Muscat, Oman. Topics included: CO2-resistant cement foam cement packer fluids formation impairment OBM-waste

ISO/TS 16530-2, Well integrity in the operational phase is the first standard to be released by ISO  under the new IOGP Standards Solution. IOGP and the participating operators jointly contributed

PTTEP hosted IOGP’s Standards Committee, at its 2nd annual meeting in Bangkok in September. Committee Chair, Denis Deutsch, thanked Mr Phongsthorn Thavisin, PTTEP’s Executive Vice President, Engineering and Development and

Management and development of company specifications were on the agenda at two-day, Repsol-hosted OGP workshop, which took place in Madrid, in July. Regulators, classification societies, design contractors and suppliers joined

OGP has released an update to the overview of “Standards and guidelines for drilling, well constructions and well operations. It replaces the December 2012 edition (Report No. 485). The contents

While an industry should have a single set of global standards, there is no reason why there could not be several standard brands.  That was one of the insights offered