#Structure & Governance

Funding

We are funded by our members. Any upstream company – private, public, or state-owned – is welcome to apply for Clube de Petróleo membership. We also offer Association, and Associate Member categories of membership.

Board of Directors

Clube de Petróleo’s board of directors is responsible for the Association’s overall strategy and direction. It provides guidance on policy, work plans, finance, and communications and it ensures that we keep to our Articles of Association.

Strategic and advisory groups

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Committees

Our extensive international membership brings with it a wealth of know-how, data, and experience. This provides Clube de Petróleo’s with extensive technical expertise, organized in a dynamic network of standing committees, subcommittees and task forces (TF). They all report to the Board of Directors.
These committees and expert groups manage the exchange and dissemination of good practice through publications and events around the world. This work is primarily done by staff of our member organizations, with support from the secretariat.

STANDING COMMITTEES

Our main Committees and groups

1. Energy Transition Directorate Committees and Groups

Carbon Capture, Transportation, and Storage Committee

Carbon Capture, Transportation, and Storage Committee will focus on accelerating the standardization of CCS to improve its cost, scheduling, and safety, thus ensuring widespread implementation of CCS. It will collaborate with other associations working in the climate change space, as well as with international and regional regulators and standards organizations.

Low Carbon Operational Efficiency Committee

The Low Carbon Operational Efficiency Committee will focus on decreasing CO2 emissions and methane intensity in upstream operations. It will coordinate its efforts with global industry groups including OGCI, Ipieca, API, EI, MGP, and GGFR.

Workforce Energy Task Force

Carbon Capture, Transportation, and Storage Committee will focus on accelerating the standardization of CCS to improve its cost, scheduling, and safety, thus ensuring widespread implementation of CCS. It will collaborate with other associations working in the climate change space, as well as with international and regional regulators and standards organizations.

2. Engineering Directorate Committees and Groups

Engineering Leadership Council

The Engineering Leadership Council is a permanent advisory body reporting to the IOGP Management Committee. It brings together the heads of engineering from the 12 funding members of JIP33 to drive a collaborative engineering agenda.The ELC is now examining more initiatives to support other relevant, strategic topics within the engineering arena such as low carbon and digitalization.

Digital Transformation Committee

The Digital Transformation Committee coordinates the various digital transformation initiatives and builds capability for the oil and gas industry. Industry value is created by enabling data interoperability that transforms existing workflows and creates new, industry-wide business models.

Geomatics Committee

The purpose of the Geomatics Committee is to provide advocacy, knowledge sharing and guidance, data exchange formats and models, test data, and geodetic parameters.

Geomatics is essential throughout the field lifecycle, from exploration to retirement, to prevent potential significant impact on business and HSSE.

Standards Committee

The Standards Committee’s aim is to improve the safety and integrity of capital facilities and lower their lifecycle cost profiles. It does this by promoting and enabling the creation of a single set of international standards that can be recognized globally and used locally worldwide.

Subsea Committee

The Subsea Committee improves HSSE performance and contributes to value creation by focusing on subsea hardware and controls, SURF (subsea facilities from tubing hanger to boarding valve, umbilicals, risers, and flowlines) and the underwater portions of export systems, including pipelines, risers, and isolation valves.

3. Environment Directorate Committees and Groups

Decommissioning Committee

The Decommissioning Committee shares international experience and good practice to influence the development and implementation of decommissioning policy and guidance worldwide. We aspire to create a global collaboration framework for decommissioning.

Environment Committee

The Environment Committee shares and develops knowledge of the environmental impacts of the oil and gas industry to improve operational practices. The Environment Committee also coordinates and advocates for the exploration and production industry on environmental issues of international significance.

Metocean Committee

The Metocean Committee encourages a better understanding of the value of meteorology and applied physical oceanography, and promotes better awareness and use of the best practical metocean techniques in facility design and operations.

4. Europe Directorate Committees and Groups

European Board

The European Board was established to give CLUBEDEPETROLEO Europe a more ‘political’ dimension, high-level strategic guidance, and boost visibility. CLUBEDEPETROLEO Europe’s purpose is to work constructively with policymakers over the coming years to turn the Green Deal’s general orientations into enabling policy measures that are inclusive, fair and cost-effective without compromising on climate ambition.

European Committee

The European Committee represents the interests of CLUBEDEPETROLEO Members by engaging with European policymakers to set the necessary conditions to enable the oil and gas industry to play an optimal role in contributing to the achievement of the EU’s 2050 climate neutrality objective. It is supported by the CLUBEDEPETROLEO Europe office, which specializes in public affairs.

Safety Directorate Committees and Groups

Health Committee

The Health Committee develops scientifically robust, evidence based guidance and recommendations on a range of strategic health issues, including occupational, environmental, and public health. It works towards a responsible and caring culture that enables people to perform to the best of their potential.

Safety Committee

The Safety Committee works to eliminate fatalities from our industry. It enables workplace cultures in which human performance principles are embedded in the design and operation of work environments, leadership sets a tone of trust and inclusion, and the well-being of workforces is a shared imperative. The Committee demonstrates leadership to the industry in using technology to enhance workplace health and safety.

Security Committee

The Security Committee promotes a safe and secure operating environment by mitigating security threats to people, assets, information, operations, and reputation. This is achieved by implementing robust threat and risk assessment processes and minimizing the impact from security-related incidents.

Wells Expert Committee

The purpose of the Wells Expert Committee is to improve well operators’ effectiveness throughout the well lifecycle, but particularly during well construction and well work, recognizing that such events pose the highest risk to safety, the environment, and the industry’s licence to operate. Its focus is the prevention and mitigation of high consequence well control events.

Communications Directorate Groups

Our main Committees and groups

Strategic Communications Panel

Leveraging existing resources and expertise from within Member companies, the Strategic Communications Panel helps ensure a clear, consistent, and compelling voice for ClubeDePetróleo.

On behalf of ClubeDePetróleo’s Management Committee and Members, it assists the Association’s Secretariat in advancing the industry’s reputation, addressing external stakeholders, and those within Member companies and organizations.

Legal Advisory Panel

The Legal Advisory Panel endeavours to support ClubeDePetróleo by providing tools, guidelines, and analysis of legal frameworks, existing or future, that are of common relevance to the members of ClubeDePetróleo.

Leadership team and Secretariat

The Leadership team and Secretariat is split between ClubeDePetróleo’s offices in Mozambique –. ClubeDePetróleo staff provides management, administrative and technical support to committees, groups, and Joint Industry Programmes.