Setting the standards - Are companies overburdening themselves with in-house specs?

摘要

A According to a survey conducted by the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (OGP) Standards Committee, the average upstream oil and gas company has 816 internal company specifications. These include technical specifications, company standards, and individualized design and engineering practices - all prepared by the company itself for its own repeated use. In some of the companies surveyed (accounting for more than one-third of the world's oil and gas production), such technical specifications total more than 2,000.