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This guidance clarifies currently used terminology in the water stewardship space and presents users with a streamlined water stewardship action scheme that synthesises water frameworks and disclosure standards for the energy sector.
Undertaking ‘meaningful engagement’ not only enables companies to meet regulatory guidelines and international standards, but also build robust, constructive and reciprocal relationships with stakeholders.
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.
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.
The Readiness Evaluation Tool for Oil Spills (RETOS™) aims to assist governments and companies in assessing their level of oil spill response planning and readiness 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.
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.
This Ipieca-IOGP guidance is designed to help HSE/SD professionals to develop biodiversity action plans (BAPs) for their activities and projects.
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 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.
The Ipieca-OGCI Natural climate solutions: high carbon stock ecosystems management guidance supports the Paris Agreement goals by setting out the key principles to help energy companies conserve, enhance and restore the high carbon stock ecosystems where they operate.
A summary of the Ipieca-OGCI guidance on natural climate solutions management.
Title Type Theme Published Download 
Water stewardship Good practice guidance Nature 16 Dec 2024 
Meaningful engagement Good practice guidance People 25 Sep 2024 
Oil and gas contractor drug and alcohol testing recommended practice Good practice guidance People 29 Aug 2024 
Invasive alien species and the energy industry Good practice guidance Nature 17 Jul 2024 
Readiness evaluation tool for oil spills Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 09 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 
Health performance indicators Good practice guidance People 04 Jul 2023 
Online labour rights training Good practice guidance People, Sustainability 12 May 2023 
A guide to developing biodiversity action plans Good practice guidance Nature 13 Mar 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 
Medical emergency response and primary healthcare guideline Good practice guidance People 08 Dec 2022 
Natural climate solutions: high carbon stock ecosystems management Good practice guidance Climate, Nature 28 Nov 2022 
Natural climate solutions: high carbon stock ecosystems management - executive summary Good practice guidance Climate, Nature 09 Nov 2022