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This industry-specific document provides guidance on the prevention of food- and water-related diseases.
The Ipieca-IOGP compendium provides an introduction to energy efficiency measures for oil and gas facilities, and aims to raise awareness and uptake of such technologies and practices across the industry.
Ipieca, together with IOGP and the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI), have released a recommended practices guide to help operators select and deploy methane detection and quantification technologies.
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.
Indicators for the health performance of the industry are a necessary part of effective health management and the promotion of improvements in health performance.
Twelve e-learning modules to support the industry and its supply chain to improve awareness and management of labour rights issues.
The objective of this guidance is to provide a structured framework to guide practitioners, towards the implementation of an effective and efficient local content measurement and reporting process. It offers a roadmap to select, collect, and analyze metrics.
Guidance to support practitioners in developing robust social baselines for offshore project impacts to fisheries.
This Ipieca-IOGP guidance is designed to help HSE/SD professionals to develop biodiversity action plans (BAPs) for their activities and projects.
This document provides guidance for business leaders, HSE professionals, and health practitioners on the business case for outcome-focused and cost-effective medical emergency response (MER) and primary healthcare in the energy industries.
A summary of the Ipieca-OGCI guidance on natural climate solutions management.
This guidance considers the effects of oil releases on fisheries, tourism and other commercial activities, and outlines available compensation schemes.
This document provides occupational health, HSE and occupational hygiene practitioners in the energy industries with pragmatic advice on how workplace lighting can limit circadian disruption and enhance health, safety, and performance.
This report presents recommendations for optimal health risk assessment and management within a health, safety, and environment management programme.
Ipieca and IOGP have launched a quick reference infographic and video for local responders to use when deciding whether to spray surface dispersant on oil spills.
The Ipieca-IOGP-GGFR Flaring management guidance outlines new developments in flaring management and reduction, and examines industry experiences with eliminating flaring, new technologies, business models, operational improvements and regulatory policy.
This document aims to help operators navigate the steps involved in implementing and maintaining a surveillance programme during a response to an oil spill.
A tool to help oil and gas companies assess and manage supply chain sustainability risks.
This document offers guidance for oil and gas industry JVs on the governance, policy development, implementation and management of HSSE&SR.
Ipieca has launched new guidance for companies on how to identify labour rights risks in their supply chains.
The second edition of the Water management framework reflects the lessons learnt from members and stakeholders in the years since its original publication.
This second edition reflects the continued evolution and valuable lessons learnt by Ipieca members from their shared experiences of developing and implementing human rights due diligence processes.
This document summarises Ipieca's updated Human rights due diligence guidance.
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.
This technical support document describes how to manage all the required onshore activities when dealing with an oil spill.
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.
Title Type Theme Published Download 
Food and water safety in the oil and gas industry Good practice guidance People 10 Nov 2023 
Compendium of energy and GHG efficient technologies and practices Good practice guidance Climate 07 Nov 2023 
Recommended practices for methane emissions detection and quantification technologies - upstream Good practice guidance Climate 26 Sep 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 
Health performance indicators Good practice guidance People 04 Jul 2023 
Online labour rights training Good practice guidance People, Sustainability 12 May 2023 
Local content measurement and reporting Good practice guidance People 13 Mar 2023 
Offshore impacts to fisheries: practitioner guidance for social baselines Good practice guidance People 15 Feb 2023 
A guide to developing biodiversity action plans Good practice guidance Nature 09 Dec 2022 
Medical emergency response and primary healthcare guideline Good practice guidance People 08 Dec 2022 
Natural climate solutions: high carbon stock ecosystems management - executive summary Good practice guidance Climate, Nature 09 Nov 2022 
Economic assessment and compensation for marine oil releases Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 20 Oct 2022 
Managing light exposure in the energy industries Good practice guidance People 18 May 2022 
Health risk assessment and management Good practice guidance People 05 Apr 2022 
Dispersant decision toolkit Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 11 Feb 2022 
Flaring management guidance Good practice guidance Climate 02 Feb 2022 
Oil spill surveillance planning guidance Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 23 Nov 2021 
Supply chain library of questions and resources Good practice guidance Sustainability 15 Sep 2021 
Guidelines for health, safety, security, environment and social responsibility governance in joint ventures Good practice guidance Climate, Nature, People, Sustainability, Corporate 02 Sep 2021 
Labour rights risk identification in the supply chain Good practice guidance Sustainability 30 Jun 2021 
Water management framework Good practice guidance Nature 14 Jun 2021 
Human rights due diligence guidance Good practice guidance People 19 May 2021 
Human rights due diligence guidance summary Good practice guidance People 19 May 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 
Shoreline response programme guidance Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 14 Jul 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