Where's the members and sponsors list showing all these supposed corporate sponsors?
Funded by members? What's funded? Apparently funding does not include review of their specs.
This is supposed to be of value under CFRs? I don't see any references there to IOGP.
I don't see where individuals are even allowed to become members, even if I wanted to.
Obviously anything that you ask for over what normally comes off the press costs money and I have always advocated not attaching supplements to basic specs asking for things that you don't need, realising that every additional item can have great cost implications. But some are necessary. I've been burned by not requiring 24hr valve hydros, etc. but, when the stuff fails offshore, SHTF and you sorely realise you should have used that spec. Writing a needed specification pays off. Using them when you don't need to does not and winds up costing way more. That's why we write them.
So tell me how something written for North Sea ops is supposed to blanket the entire world. Most of that I couldn't even think of using in an unregulated environment, even if I wanted to, or in places where hi tech repair parts aren't available for 3 months after ordering. So we'll have a version for unregulated South Texas gathering systems and another for ... That's what we have now already. I'd be surprised if anything better or more inclusive than the most basic existing international specs ever result from this, but someone (apparently not me or you) will be making a few bucks finding that out. In the meantime maybe IOGP just makes that situation worse. Another set of specs I don't need?
Fine, as I always say, its better to go broke drinking beer, but I guess you can write specs in the process. Be my guest, but count me out.
Steve, what's the deal? Why is this organisation asking us to do this (apparently for free), or is it? Let them work within the existing model. They can pay their own staff to work and to serve on the committees, just like ASME code committees are funded.
[highlight #CC0000]I simply think it is disrespectful to every engineer that has worked hard at great cost to obtain an engineering education.
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I promise that this ain't coming from the current White House. Besides, it is far too socialist idealism pie in sky for that.