International Association of Oil & Gas Producers
Standards Bulletin
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
A set of International Standards for a
wide selection of vital oil & gas industry
materials, equipment and offshore structures
is emerging from the International Standards
Organization, ISO. These standards are
primarily the responsibility of ISO Technical
Committee 67 (ISO/TC67). They are
developed using a consensus process that
includes more than 3000 oil & gas industry
experts from around the globe and an
international review and approval process.
157 ISO standards have now been
issued, including 12 revisions or new
publications in 2011. As many as 30
standards were planned for revision or
new publication this year; however, this
is now unlikely due to EU/US sanction
regulations creating difficulties for the
progress of international standards work.
The international oil & gas industry and
national standardisation organisations
support these standards for worldwide
applications. Asian, European, Gulf States,
ARCTIC STANDARDS
The Barents 2020 project was officially
started in 2007 to harmonize the HSE
approach and standards to be applied in
the Norwegian and Russian Barents Sea.
The project has now been concluded and
over its four year duration has become a
leading player in the advancement of global
Arctic capability. Key areas of activity and
delivery within Barents 2020 include:
Identification of relevant standards
that could be used in the Arctic
with focus on the Barents Sea.
Recommended enhancements to
existing standards on stationary
floating systems in ice, incorporating
Shtokman design experience.
Highlighting of risk management
differences between Norwegian
and Russian practice and creating
a shared vision towards Arctic
risks and risk management.
Recommended enhancements to
existing standards for Escape,
Evacuation and Rescue (EER).
Recommended enhancements to
standards and approaches to ensure
a safe working environment.
Enhanced guidelines on discharge
to sea/emission to air.
North & South American, Russian and
other standards bodies are now adopting
them for regional and national use.
The oil & gas industry uses international
standards to enhance technical integrity,
improve safety, facilitate global operations
and reduce the environmental impact of
operations worldwide. A lot has been
achieved by the industry over the past
two decades. For industry, they will
reduce costs and delivery time, and
facilitate trade across national borders.
For regulators, they offer support for
goal-setting and functional regulations,
while achieving higher levels of safety
through better design. These standards are
now being implemented widely in oil and
gas provinces around the world, replacing
existing industry, regional and national
standards and eliminating or reducing the
need for company-specific specifications.
For details on standards available from ISO
TC67, see poster inside or www.iso.org.
Barents 2020 has delivered a clear
pathway to transition and integration of
its results into these ongoing and new
regional and international standardization
efforts, ensuring that the results will have
a lasting legacy. For Barents 2020 final
reports, see www.dnv.com. The new ISO
Standard 19906, Arctic offshore structures,
was identified as a key base document
for many of the areas. Additionally, a new
ISO/TC67 subcommittee No 8, with a
Russian Secretariat will address non-structural
standards issues of Arctic Operations.
An equally important non-technical
contribution from the project is the
relationships established between the
multinational groups of technical experts
that worked on the project. OGPs Arctic
Coordination Task Force has applied for
a category A liaison with the new ISO
committee TC67/SC8 Arctic operations and
encouraging member company participation
in planning and executing its activities.
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Global
Standards
Used Locally
Worldwide
http://info.ogp.org.uk/standards/
INTERNATIONAL
REGULATORS FORUM (IRF)
The Montara and Macondo incidents put
a new emphasis on the need for robust
and comprehensive standards. There is
also greater recognition of the role national
regulators have to play in the standards
development process; in selecting topics and
priorities for standardisation, in helping to
develop standards themselves, or in using
completed standards within
the regulatory landscape.
OGP therefore welcomed OGP
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for electrical issues) as
the principal system for offshore
regulators to support in order to achieve
globally agreed offshore standards. At
the same time, IRF recognised the crucial
role that relevant national and regional
standards would continue to play whilst no
equivalent ISO (or IEC) standards existed.
IRF has now set up a Standards subgroup
that will engage with the OGP Standards
Committee, ISO/TC67 Management
Committee and other relevant groups.
Speaking on this outcome, OGP Standards
Committee Chair Ross Smith, BP, said, IRF
is the principal international regulatory forum
for offshore safety so this is an important step
which may lead to the more consistent use
of international standards by regulators and
potentially simplify the movement of rigs and
equipment across national borders. And this
also applies to those OGP members that use
different standards for the same topics. We
look forward to working together with IRF in
the years to come and will
continue to encourage the
use of the same international
standards worldwide.
ISO Standards for use in the oil & gas industry
ISO 10418 Basic surface safety systems ISO 15156-1 Selection of cracking resistant materials for use in H2S envrironments ISO 3977-5 Gas turbines procurement ISO 14691 Flexible couplings general
ISO 10423 Wellhead & christmas tree equipment ISO 15156-2 Cracking-resistant steels and cast irons for use in H2S environments ISO 10428 Sucker rods ISO 15547-1 Plate & frame type heat exchangers
ISO/TR 12489 Reliability modeling/safety systems (New) ISO 15156-3 Cracking-resistant alloys for use in H2S environments ISO 10431 Pumping unites ISO 15547-2 Brazed aluminium platefin type heat exchangers
ISO 13533 Drill-through equipment (BOPs) ISO 15138 HVAC ISO 10434 Bolted bonnet steel gate valves ISO 15649 Piping
ISO 13534 Hoisting equipment - care/maint (Rev) ISO 15544 Emergency response ISO 10437 Special-purpose steam turbines (Rev) ISO 15761 Steel valves DN 100 and smaller
ISO 13535 Hoisting equipment - specification (Rev) ISO 15663 Life cycle costing, Parts 1-3 ISO 10438 Lubrication, shaft-sealing and control-oil systems, Parts 1-4 ISO 16812 Shell & tube heat exchangers
ISO 13626 Drilling and well-servicing structures ISO 17776 Assessment of hazardous situations ISO 10439 Centrifugal compressors (Rev) ISO 17292 Metal ball valves
ISO 13702 Control & mitigation of fire & explosion ISO 20815 Production assurance and reliability management ISO 10440-1 Rotary-type positive-displacement process compressors (oil-free) ISO 21049 Centrifugal and rotary pumps shaft sealing (Rev)
ISO 13703 Offshore piping systems ISO 21457 Materials selection ISO 10440-2 Rotary PD packaged air compressors ISO 23251 Pressure-relieving and depressuring systems (Rev)
ISO 14224 Reliability/maintenance data ISO 23936-1 Thermoplastics ISO 10441 Flexible couplings special ISO/TS 24817 Composite repair of pipework
ISO 14692 GRP piping, Parts 1-4 ISO 23936-2 Elastomers (New) ISO 10442 Integrally geared air compressors ISO 25457 Flares details
ISO 14693 Drilling equipment ISO/TS 27469 Method of test for offshore fire dampers ISO 12211 Spiral plate heat exchangers (New) ISO 27509 Compact flanged connections (New)
ISO/TS 29001 Sector-specific quality management systems ISO 12212 Harpin heat exchangers (New) ISO 28300 Venting of storage tanks
ISO 13631 Reciprocating gas compressors ISO 28460 LNG - Ship to shore interface
ISO 19900 Offshore structures - general requirements ISO 13691 High speed enclosed gear units
ISO 19901-1 Metocean design and operating considerations ISO 13704 Calculation of heater tube thickness
ISO 19901-2 Seismic design ISO 13705 Fired heaters for general service (Rev)
ISO 19901-3 Topsides structure ISO 13706 Air-cooled heat exchangers (Rev)
ISO 19901-4 Geotechnical and foundation design ISO 13707 Reciprocating compressors
ISO 19901-5 Weight control ISO 13709 Centrifugal pumps
ISO 19901-6 Marine operations ISO 13710 Reciprocating positive
ISO 13624-1 Marine drilling riser systems ISO 19902 Fixed steel offshore structures displacement pumps (Rev)
ISO/TR 13624-2 Marine drilling riser system analysis ISO 19903 Fixed concrete offshore structures
ISO 13625 Marine drilling riser couplings ISO 19905-1 Jack-ups (New)
ISO 19901-7 Station-keeping systems for floating offshore structures (Rev) ISO/TR 19905-2 Jack-ups commentary (New)
ISO 19904-1 Floating offshore structures ISO 19906 Arctic offshore structures
ISO 3183 Steel pipe for pipeline transportation systems (Rev)
ISO 12490 Actuation, mechanical integrity and sizing for pipeline valves (New)
ISO/TS 12747 Pipeline life extension (New)
ISO 13623 Pipeline transportation systems
ISO 13847 Pipeline welding (Rev)
ISO 14313 Pipeline valves
ISO 14723 Subsea pipeline valves
ISO 15589-1 Cathodic protection for on-land pipelines (Rev)
ISO 15589-2 Cathodic protection for offshore pipelines (Rev)
ISO 15590-1 Pipeline induction bends
ISO 15590-2 Pipeline fittings (Rev)
ISO 13628-1 Subsea production systems (Amd) ISO 13628-9 ROT intervention systems ISO 15590-3 Pipeline flanges (Rev)
ISO 13628-2 Subsea flexible pipe systems ISO 13628-10 Bonded flexible pipe ISO 16708 Pipeline reliability-based limit state design
ISO 13628-3 Subsea TFL pumpdown systems ISO 13628-11 Flexible pipe systems for subsea and marine applications ISO 21329 Test procedures for pipeline mechanical connectors
ISO 13628-4 Subsea wellhead and tree equipment ISO 13628-15 Subsea structures and manifolds (New) ISO 21809-1 Polyolefin coatings (3-layer PE and 3-layer PP) (New)
ISO 13628-5 Subsea control umbilicals ISO 13628-16 Spec for flexible pipe ancillary equipment (New) ISO 21809-2 Fusion-bonded epoxy coatings (Rev)
ISO 13628-6 Subsea production controls ISO 13628-17 RP for flexible pipe ancillary equipment (New) ISO 10427-2 Centralizer placement and stop-collar testing ISO 13680 CRA seamless tubes for casing & tubing ISO 21809-3 Field joint coatings (Amd)
ISO 13628-7 Completion/workover riser system ISO 10427-3 Performance testing of cement float equipment ISO 14310 Packers and bridge plugs ISO 21809-4 Polyethylene coatings (2-layer PE)
ISO 13628-8 ROT and interfaces (Rev) ISO 10432 Subsurface safety valves ISO 15136-1 Progressing cavity pump systems ISO 21809-5 External concrete coatings
ISO 11960 Casing and tubing (Rev) ISO 15136-2 Progressing cavity pump systems - drive heads
ISO 11961 Drill pipe ISO 15463 Field inspection of new casing, tubing and plain end drill pipe
ISO 13085 Tubing aluminium alloy pipes (New) ISO 15464 Gauging and inspection of threads
ISO 13500 Drilling fluids (Amd) ISO 15546 Aluminium alloy drill pipe (Rev)
ISO/TR 10400 Calculations for OCTG performance properties ISO 10424-2 Threading and gauging of connections ISO 13501 Drilling fluids - processing systems evaluation (Rev) ISO 16070 Lock mandrels and landing nipples
ISO 10405
ISO 10407-1
Care/use of casing/tubing
Drill stem design
ISO 10426-1
ISO 10426-2
Well cementing
Testing of well cements (Rev)
ISO 13503-1
ISO 13503-2
Measurement of viscous properties of completion fluids (Rev)
Measurement of properties of proppants
ISO 17078-1
ISO 17078-2
Side-pocket mandrels (Amd)
Flow control devices for side-pocket mandrels
Standards in brown issued in 2011
ISO 10407-2 Inspection and classification of drill stem elements ISO 10426-3 Testing of deepwater well cement ISO 13503-3 Testing of heavy brines ISO 17078-3 Latches & seals for side-pocket mandrels & flow control devices
ISO 10414-1
ISO 10414-2
Field testing of water-based fluids
Field testing of oil-based drilling fluids (Rev)
ISO 10426-4 Preparation and testing of
atmospheric foamed cement slurries
ISO 13503-4 Measurement of stimulation & gravelpack fluid leakoff ISO 17078-4 Side-pocket mandrels and related equipment Standards in green are a priority for 2012 issue
ISO 13503-5 Measurement of long term conductivity of proppants ISO 17824 Sand control screens
ISO 10416 Drilling fluids - lab testing ISO 10426-5 Shrinkage and expansion of well cement ISO 13503-6 Measurement of leak-off of completion fluids under dynamic conditions (New) ISO 20312 Design of aluminium drill string (New) These ISO standards are only a core collection of several hundreds of
ISO 10417 Subsurface safety valve systems ISO 10426-6 Static gel strength of cement formulations ISO 13678 Thread compounds ISO 27627 Aluminium drill pipe thread gauging (New)
ISO 10424-1 Rotary drill stem elements ISO 10427-1 Bow spring casing centralizers ISO 13679 Casing and tubing connections testing (Rev) ISO 28781 Subsurface tubing mounted formation barriers International Standards available for the oil & gas industry

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MATERIAL STANDARDS
Comprehensive material standards
are crucial for the safety of personnel,
effective construction and planned
life time performance of the oil & gas
installations. In ISO/TC67 there are
many subcommittees and work groups
that develop standards where material
guidelines and requirements are included,
but two work groups have been charged
with specific responsibilities in this area:
WG7 Materials for use in H2S containing
environments in oil and gas production
WG8 Materials, corrosion control,
welding and jointing and non-
destructive examination (NDE)
WG7 has in cooperation with NACE
focussed on materials to perform well
in H2S containing environments, as
its title describes and lately they have
been looking into standards for use of
elastomers in the oil & gas industry.
WG8 has a wider scope and is currently
looking into its work program. As a basis
ABOUT OGP
The International Association of Oil & Gas
producers (OGP) encompasses most of the
worlds leading publicly traded, private
and state-owned oil & gas companies, oil
& gas associations and major upstream
service companies. OGP members
operate in more than 80 different countries
and produce more than half the worlds
oil and about one third of its gas.
The association was formed in 1974 to
develop effective communications between
the upstream industry and an increasingly
complex network of international regulators.
An essential part of OGPs mission is to
represent the interests of the upstream industry
to international regulators and legislators.
OGP also helps members achieve
continuous improvement in safety, health
and environmental performance, and in
the engineering and operation of upstream
ventures. OGPs extensive international
membership brings with it a wealth of know-
how, data and experience. OGP committees
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for this, a study of 83 existing ISO/
TC67 standards reveals the following
interesting results with respect to materials:
894 Pages of materials related content
in main body of these standards
557 Pages of materials related content
in annexes of these standards
1,452 Pages of materials related content
in total of these 83 standards
938 Number of individual materials
developed over many years of operation
related reference standards
listed in standards in survey
and valuable experiences. The library of
It can safely be concluded from these
numbers that materials provisions cater for
a significant portion of the ISO standards
in question, which also include nearly
one thousands of reference standards
from as many as 30 and more different
standard developing organisations around
the world. This adds further large volume
to the material standards available to the
industry but is also complicates the issue
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and task forces manage the exchange and
dissemination of this knowledge. OGP
additionally promotes awareness of Corporate
Responsibility issues such as transparency
of revenues and combatting corruption.
The OGP Standards Committee monitors,
co-ordinates and influences the development
of international standards to meet the
needs of OGP members. There is close
communication with key standards bodies,
particularly API, CEN, GSO and ISO. The
Committee also influences and monitors
adoption of international standards in Asia,
America, Europe and other regions.
OGP POSITION ON
STANDARDS
OGP has been a catalyst in the industrys
approach to standards and strongly supports
the internationalisation of key standards used
by the petroleum and natural gas industries.
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of harmonisation with so many different
organisations providing material standards.
This study is now the basis for further
evaluations within WG8 on what
should be the work program for
international material standards related
work in ISO in the years to come.
Many operating companies also have
a number of company specifications
that include lots of hard earned learnings
documents is shared within OGP Materials
Subcommittee for the purpose of learning
and harmonisation of specification and also
they are a great source of improvements
for international material standards.
CURRENT INTERNATIONAL
STANDARDS ISSUE
The work of ISO/TC67 has recently
been seriously affected by EU & US trade
regulations. An agreement has recently
been made between ISO and OGP to
respond to temporary industry uncertainties
associated with these trade regulations and
their applicability to standardization in the
oil and gas sector. Under this agreement
OGP will offer to continue developing draft
international standards in the ISO/TC67
work program, while a permanent solution
to the sanction problems can be found.
Requests for interpretation of the regulations
have been sent to the EU Commission
and US Department of Treasury. OGP and
API recently met to discuss how a long
term solution could be found and it was
agreed to establish a joint task force to
develop a solution. For more information
on this interim solution, please contact
OGP at pmInterimSolution@ogp.org.uk.
OGPs position on standards is to:
promote development and use of ISO
and IEC International Standards;
ensure standards are simple
and fit for purpose;
use International Standards without
modification wherever possible;
ensure visibility of the international
standards identification number,
whatever the method of publication;
base development of standards
on a consensus of need;
avoid duplication of effort;
minimise company specifications which
should be written, where possible,
as functional requirements; and
promote users on standards
work groups.
The adoption of this approach is expected to
minimise technical barriers to trade, enable
more efficient worldwide operations, and
improve the technical integrity of equipment,
materials, and offshore structures used by
the petroleum and natural gas industries.