1. Global standards used locally worldwide: A company view
presented by
Neil Reeve
(Vice President of IFAN)
Shell Global Solutions International B.V.

2. Shell and diversity Shell is Anglo/Dutch in origins (100 year history)
Shell operates in 130 countries in 6 continents
In our offices in The Hague there are 40 nationalities
High degree of local business autonomy in operations

3. Global Standards Used Locally Worldwide
ISO/TC67 VISION
Global Standards Used Locally Worldwide
OBJECTIVE
This presentation has been prepared to assist industry representatives to share information about the changing standards scene worldwide. This presentation should assist you to promote the changes within your Business.
SCOPE
This presentation covers the work in progress in ISO/TC67 and the steps to manage it, the relationship to other standards bodies and their work, and the role of the E&P Forum as monitor and catalyst. Current events in API, CRINE, NORSOK and in Europe (CEN/CENELEC) are summarised. The benefits to the oil companies are presented in both general and specific terms.
BACKGROUND
The changes will affect everyone in the oil industry who specifies, procures, manufactures or supplies materials and equipment.
Industry has largely relied on API Standards, and this scene is changing. Strong regional pressures, and the industry drive for cost reduction, have brought the international industry together in ISO, the International Organisation for Standardisation, to develop the API standards to be a common basis for global application. The opportunity is being taken to simplify the standards, to include performance, quality and regional variations where there is an industry need, and to include common company requirements in order to minimise company specials.
The prize is cost reduction, to which many factors may contribute; not least being improved relationships between purchasers and suppliers. Purchasers need to understand the expertise of manufacturers and suppliers. Designs should be developed based as far as possible on standard products. The ISO Standards being developed should encourage the development of standard products that meet a wide range of industry need. This will help avoid the specification being written differently for each application. The market should be more competitive in conditions that are more open and more stable, and on a global scale. Key phrases are:
Do it Once, Do it Right, Do it Globally (Internationally)
A Single Set of Words
The success of these efforts will require a culture change, both in the way we make standards and in the way we use them.
ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION
This presentation was first prepared in October 1994, and is updated in January Significant contributions have been made by key people involved in the work, and it is considered that the information and presentation represents an optimum consensus at this date. Nevertheless users are encouraged to customise and improve the slides as appropriate for their audience.
The presentation is available on 3.5” floppy disk as a PowerPoint 3.0 file in PC-Windows format and can be modified, updated etc. for a particular presentation. The ‘Handouts’ (copies for the audience) are set up for two slides to an A4 page. It is planned that a user will extract from the file the slides required, and revise them to suit. Printing of tranparencies (viewgraphs or 35mm) is the user's responsibility although a master set may be available on loan from E&P Forum. While there is no copyright on the content, E&P Forum would appreciate an acknowledgement of its origin.
For further information, and for a copy of the presentation file, please contact the Secretary of the E&P Forum Standards Subcommittee in London, UK:
Tel FAX:
E&P Forum, January 1996

4. Shell’s Transparent Standards Structure
Management control
Knowledge feedback
Increased resources
for critical standards
External Standards
External
DEP
Shell Group Common Base.
Central organization responsibility
Company
Variation
Business
justification to deviate
Project
Variation
Local Operating Company responsibility

5. Shell standardisation policy
Maximize use of common industry standards (International if possible)
Minimize additional company requirements
Ensure variations justified (technical and commercial)
Ensure continuous improvement (feedback from users)
Influence external standards bodies. Participate actively in the technical committees and working groups of key external standards
Benefits are maximized when all companies use the same common industry standards

6. STANDARDISATION BODIES - RELATIONSHIPS
Recognised
ISO / IEC
International
Vienna Agreement
CEN / CENELEC
Regional L i a s o n
National
ANSI
Japan
etc.
BSI
Other
European
Industry
API
ASME
OGP
EEMUA
UKOOA
Companies
OPERATORS
CONTRACTORS
SUPPLIERS

7. PATTERN OF CHANGE - WORK IN BSI
1983
2000
Int’l
Stds
11%
Over these years
Standards work in
BSI committees has
changed to be mostly
international
or regional
(ISO, IEC, CEN
and CENELEC)
93%
Int’l
Stds UK
Stds
UK Stds
Note: Typical for all European Standards Bodies

8. Note: Step change in usage of ISO/IEC documents
ISO/IEC REFERENCES IN SHELL DOCUMENTS
1990
2000 30
500
ISO
100
250
IEC
130
750
Note: Step change in usage of ISO/IEC documents

9. ISO/TC67 STATEMENTS Mission: Vision: Goals:
To create value-added standards for the oil and natural gas industry
Vision:
Global standards used locally worldwide
Goals:
Prepare standards required by this industry
Prepare standards that could be adopted worldwide by bodies such as API and CEN
Publish standards that enable companies to minimize their specifications
Deliver standards to the target dates on the agreed work programme
A Single Set of Words:
if CEN, API BS etc. need to adopt a standard on the subject, it should be the ISO Standard so that the same requirements are common
ISO-CEN say “Do it once, do it right, do it Internationally”
API say “Do it once, do it right, do it globally”
Everything is in place and the main organisations are aligned. Now the ISO system must deliver.

10. ISO TC67 Standards Issued (to 2001)

11. Current issues for Shell
Proliferation of competing horizontal standards for testing and materials (SILOs)
Units
The “bookstore” problem
Continuity of the SDOs
Opportunity to integrate the various technical standards for Shell US operations with rest of Shell Group standards

12. Example: Tensile testing: ISO 6892, EN 10002, ASTM A370
SILOS
CEN
ISO
ASTM
None of these will meet industry need unless they work together with each other
Example: Tensile testing: ISO 6892, EN 10002, ASTM A370

13. Current issues for Shell
Proliferation of competing horizontal standards for testing and materials (SILOs)
Units
The “bookstore” problem
Continuity of the SDOs
Opportunity to integrate the various technical standards for Shell US operations with rest of Shell Group standards

14. Abbreviations
This presentation makes use of many abbreviations in order to illustrate the various issues.
These include:
ISO CS ISO Central Secretariat
IEC CS IEC Central Secretariat
ISO/TC67 ISO Technical Committee 67
API American Petroleum Institute
ANSI American National Standards Institute
CEN European Standards Organization
OGP International Association of Oil and Gas Producers
Europia European Petroleum Industry Association
IFAN International Federation of Standards Users
DEP Shell Group Design and Engineering Practice

15. THANK YOU