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This recommended practice identifies key drug and alcohol programme elements and is intended for use by contractor companies and oil and gas industry owners and operators.
This guidance presents the first oil and gas specific set of circularity indicators, bringing together elements from a number of existing circular economy (CE) frameworks and providing qualitative and quantitative CE indicators to enable oil and gas companies to measure the circularity of their assets and material in/out flows.
The increasing global movement of people and goods elevates the risk of the introduction, spread, and establishment of invasive alien species (IAS), impacting biodiversity and businesses. This document provides guidance for prevention and management.
Oil and gas operations take place in many countries where the quality of medical services and specialities differs. It is therefore important for a company to assess local health facilities to ensure that they can provide optimal medical care for their workers.
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.
Title Type Theme Published Download 
Oil and gas contractor drug and alcohol testing recommended practice Good practice guidance People 29 Aug 2024 
Circular economy indicators in the oil and gas industry Good practice guidance Nature 21 Aug 2024 
Invasive alien species and the energy industry Good practice guidance Nature 17 Jul 2024 
Medical facilities assessment Good practice guidance People 07 Feb 2024 
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