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This industry-specific document provides guidance on the prevention of food- and water-related diseases.
An Incident Management System (IMS) is essential to optimizing response times and efficiency, providing clarity in command and control, improving resource coordination and communications, and facilitating the cooperation and integration of responding organizations.
This document is aimed at those persons responsible for ensuring that oil spill contingency plans are practised and verified, providing guidance on constructing an exercise programme that is suitable for meeting an organization’s or facility’s requirements.
This document identifies the principal health and safety issues when an oil spill occurs, their degree of severity and the practical steps to minimize the impact of the spill.
Twelve e-learning modules to support the industry and its supply chain to improve awareness and management of labour rights issues.
This guidance considers the effects of oil releases on fisheries, tourism and other commercial activities, and outlines available compensation schemes.
This document aims to help operators navigate the steps involved in implementing and maintaining a surveillance programme during a response to an oil spill.
Accelerating action: an SDG Roadmap for the oil and gas sector (Roadmap) is an initiative led by Ipieca, the global oil and gas industry association for advancing environmental and social performance, in collaboration with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).
This document is a culmination of the good practices, information and strategies developed by Ipieca and IOGP members to respond to the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This joint Ipieca-IOGP technical support document helps operators navigate the steps and good practices involved in planning for, and implementing, a monitoring and sampling programme.
The second edition includes topics such as the relationship between environmental and social management, and the emergence of biodiversity and ecosystem services as a discipline.
Ipieca members share good practice and discuss common reporting challenges, opportunities and emerging issues
Ipieca has partnered with IOGP to develop new guidance on managing health in the oil and gas industry.
Ipieca has released updated guidance on oil spill preparedness and response.
This document provides a summary of the 2019 Ipieca-IOGP guidance on managing health in the oil and gas industry.
This practitioner note provides an overview of the process for designing a social investment strategy, and explores the different phases of the oil and gas project life cycle and their implications for social investment.
This Good Practice Guide (GPG) builds on two reports, the first produced on behalf of the Ipieca-IOGP OSR-JIP...
The 'Oil and gas contractor drug and alcohol testing guidelines' provide a compendium of programme elements that can be used to deter the use or misuse of drugs and alcohol in the workplace.
In-situ burning (ISB) is the controlled combustion or burning of hydrocarbon vapours...
This document offers guidance on understanding and delivering local content in relation to oil and gas projects.
This guide defines and outlines the purpose and value of health impact assessments within the oil and gas industry...
Good practice guidelines for incident management and emergency response personnel. (Revision 2016)
Most large, well-known oil spills have occurred in the marine environment rather than inland... (Revision 2016)
Good practice guidelines for incident management and emergency response personnel (Revision 2016)
Good practice guidelines for incident management and emergency response personnel.
Good practice guidelines for incident management and emergency response personnel.
Oil spill contingency planning is the process of developing a suitable spill response capability that is in compliance with the local regulatory framework and commensurate with the oil spill risks of an organization or facility. (Revision 2016)
Appendices to the joint Ipieca-API document on technical considerations that are important for understanding and calculating GHG emission inventory uncertainty.
This Good Practice Guide is based on the Aerial Observation of Oil Pollution at Sea Operational Guide developed by CEDRE, and provides guidance on the identification and observation (Revision 2016)
The Oil Spill Response Joint Industry Project (OSR-JIP) technical document (Revision 2016)
This joint Ipieca-API document is designed to provide a summary of technical considerations that are important for understanding and calculating greenhouse gas (GHG) emission inventory uncertainty.
This new Operating Management System Framework is designed to help companies define and achieve performance goals and stakeholder benefits, while managing the broad and significant range of risks inherent in the oil and gas industry.
Title Type Theme Published Download Food and water safety in the oil and gas industry Good practice guidance People 10 Nov 2023 Incident Management System for the oil and gas industry Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 10 Aug 2023 Oil spill exercises Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 10 Aug 2023 Oil spill responder health and safety Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 10 Aug 2023 Online labour rights training Good practice guidance People, Sustainability 12 May 2023 Economic assessment and compensation for marine oil releases Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 20 Oct 2022 Oil spill surveillance planning guidance Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 23 Nov 2021 Accelerating action: an SDG Roadmap for the oil and gas sector Good practice guidance Sustainability 20 Apr 2021 Pandemic management in the oil and gas industry Good practice guidance People 07 Apr 2021 Oil spill monitoring and sampling Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 20 Nov 2020 Environmental management in the upstream oil and gas industry Good practice guidance Nature 20 Aug 2020 Sustainability reporting guidance for the oil and gas industry Good practice guidance Sustainability 03 Mar 2020 Health management in the oil and gas industry Good practice guidance People 01 Feb 2020 Oil spill preparedness and response: An introduction (2019) Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 12 Aug 2019 Health management in the oil and gas industry (Executive summary) Good practice guidance People 01 Feb 2019 Social investment across the oil and gas project life cycle: Practitioner note 3 Good practice guidance People 01 May 2017 Satellite remote sensing of oil spills at sea Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 20 Dec 2016 Oil and gas contractor drug and alcohol testing guidelines Good practice guidance People 15 Dec 2016 Controlled in-situ burning of spilled oil Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 20 Oct 2016 Local content: a guidance document for the oil and gas industry (2nd edition) Good practice guidance People 01 Apr 2016 Health impact assessment: a guide for the oil and gas industry Good practice guidance People 01 Mar 2016 Impacts of oil spills on marine ecology Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 12 Nov 2015 Oil spills: inland response Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 09 Sep 2015 A guide to oiled shoreline clean-up techniques Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 11 Jun 2015 Impacts of oil spills on shorelines Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 21 May 2015 In-water surveillance of oil spills at sea Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 01 May 2015 Contingency planning for oil spills on water Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 15 Apr 2015 Addressing uncertainty in oil and natural gas industry greenhouse gas inventories: Appendices Good practice guidance Climate 15 Feb 2015 Aerial observation of oil spills at sea Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 15 Feb 2015 At-sea monitoring of surface dispersant effectiveness Oil Spill Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 08 Feb 2015 Addressing uncertainty in oil and natural gas industry greenhouse gas inventories. Technical considerations and calculation methods. Good practice guidance Climate 01 Feb 2015 Operating Management System Framework for controlling risk and delivering high performance in the oil and gas industry Good practice guidance Climate, Nature, People, Sustainability 24 Jun 2014