IRF members have undertaken a ‘problem statement’ approach as a means of highlighting significant industry risk issues and encouraging industry to address them collectively.

Specifically, the IRF has identified three high-priority risk topics for the oil and gas industry to address (see links below), and supports the industry’s focus in developing solutions:

Specifically, the IRF has identified three high-priority risk topics for the oil and gas industry to address (see links below), and supports the industry’s focus in developing solutions:

1. Prevention of well control incidents – greater emphasis on the left-hand side of the well control bow-tie (i.e. prevention of incidents), particularly with regards to pore pressure and fracture gradient prediction and monitoring.
2. Digitalization – reducing risks from automated systems with a human-centered design approach.
3. Investigation quality/sharing and application of learnings – improve investigation quality and improve ways to embed learnings from past incidents and near misses.

These high-priority risk topics are documented in individual ‘Problem Statements’ that:

• the problem
• the changes we expect to see
• the industry association(s) invited to lead the change/develop the solution
• key performance indicators

Additional information on the problem statement initiative to support the continued reduction of key industry risks is provided in this presentation slide pack.