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 co-chaired by John Gillies – ExxonMobil 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