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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.
Guidance to support practitioners in developing robust social baselines for offshore project impacts to fisheries.
This guidance considers the effects of oil releases on fisheries, tourism and other commercial activities, and outlines available compensation schemes.
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 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.
The publication is designed to provide guidance for stakeholders across the marine fuels and shipping industries, from fuel blenders and suppliers to end users.
Ipieca has released updated guidance on oil spill preparedness and response.
The new guidance aims to assist practitioners in identifying the typical steps necessary for the oil and gas industry when negotiating and structuring agreements with communities.
This document aims to assist community relations managers in planning their community liaison teams and recruiting community liaison officers (CLOs).
This document provides a summary of the 2019 Ipieca-IOGP guidance on managing health in the oil and gas industry.
This report was developed to share guidance with those interested in understanding subsea well response competency and the skills that sit within it.
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.
Checklist for medical emergency response planning for the oil and gas industry.
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)
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 Offshore impacts to fisheries: practitioner guidance for social baselines Good practice guidance People 15 Feb 2023 Economic assessment and compensation for marine oil releases Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 20 Oct 2022 Flaring management guidance Good practice guidance Climate 02 Feb 2022 Human rights due diligence guidance Good practice guidance People 19 May 2021 Human rights due diligence guidance - executive 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 Joint Industry Guidance on the supply and use of 0.50%-sulphur marine fuel Good practice guidance Climate 20 Aug 2019 Oil spill preparedness and response: An introduction (2019) Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 12 Aug 2019 Community development agreements guidance Good practice guidance People 13 Jun 2019 Community liaison officers team building and management guidance Good practice guidance People 01 Apr 2019 Health management in the oil and gas industry (Executive summary) Good practice guidance People 01 Feb 2019 Guidance for subsea source control competency and skills Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 01 Jan 2019 Social investment across the oil and gas project life cycle: Practitioner note 3 Good practice guidance People 01 May 2017 Multiple casualty planning and preparation Good practice guidance People 30 Mar 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