IOGP, the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers, is headquartered at 3 Moorgate Place, London EC2R 6EA, in the United Kingdom, with a European office in Brussels. The association states that it has more than 90 members and has served the upstream industry for over 50 years as a forum for sharing know-how and good practice. Its members supply more than 40 per cent of the world's oil and gas demand.

Membership and structure

The membership is drawn from integrated energy companies, national oil companies, independent upstream operators, service companies and industry associations, and IOGP says it works with around 3,000 experts from member organisations. Activity is organised across four regions — the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East and Africa — with IOGP Europe providing the industry's advocacy conduit to the European Union and its policymakers. Governance rests on a board of directors, standing committees covering safety, environment, standards, carbon capture and storage and digital transformation, a leadership team and a secretariat. The organisation recruits directly through a jobs page and invites companies to join through a membership page.

Workstreams and key topics

IOGP's technical work is grouped into workstreams and cross-cutting topics:

  • Safety, covering health, security, well control and process safety.
  • Environment, including decommissioning, environmental management and metocean data.
  • Engineering, including standards, subsea and digital transformation.
  • Energy transition, framed by an integrated framework, and advocacy.
  • Joint industry programmes that pool member funding for shared technical problems.

Published topic areas range from health and safety, energy efficiency, methane emissions reduction and the elimination of routine flaring to carbon capture and storage, the role of gas, just energy transition, the energy trilemma, corporate sustainability reporting and post-decommissioning stewardship.

Guidance, standards and data

The association publishes dozens of updated guidance documents a year and maintains a library of more than 1,000 publications, freely available through its online bookstore. Its best-known documents include the Life-Saving Rules, which it introduced after recording that 376 people died between 2008 and 2017 in fatal incidents that might have been prevented by following one of the rules; the Process Safety Fundamentals, developed to help companies reduce and eventually eliminate fatal and high-severity process safety events; Safety, Health and Environment performance indicators; and sustainability reporting guidance. IOGP also maintains what it describes as the industry's largest collection of safety and environment performance data, published through a dedicated data website; the 2025 safety performance indicators were issued with an executive summary, high-potential event narratives and fatal incident reports. Its Joint Industry Project JIP33, which standardises procurement specifications, has produced 60 specifications, and in July 2026 IOGP published Vision-AI Guidelines for HSSE Applications (Report 816), described as the first industry-developed framework for the responsible use of vision-based artificial intelligence in health, safety, security and environment applications.

Governance news and events

During 2026 the association appointed Keith Johnston of Chevron as chair of its Digital Transformation Committee in June and launched the IOGP Safety Awards 2026 in May to recognise effective adoption of its safety recommended practices, while a 2026-2028 brochure set out the strategy and priorities of the digital programme. Its event calendar for the second half of 2026 includes Climate Week NYC in late September, the Offshore Structures Reliability Conference 2026, GOTECH in Dubai and a webinar on methane abatement implementation. The association also runs a members area, a mailing list for publication alerts and an RSS feed.

Contact

IOGP's London headquarters can be reached on +44 (0)20 4570 6879 or at [email protected], while IOGP Europe in Brussels is contactable on +32 (0)2 210 94 40 or at [email protected]. Contact, membership and jobs pages are published on the website, which carries a 2026 copyright. The site protects its pages with a bot challenge, so automated crawlers see an interstitial rather than the content.