PD CEN ISO/TS 17969:2017

This standard PD CEN ISO/TS 17969:2017 Petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industries. Guidelines on competency management for well operations personnel is classified in these ICS categories:

• 03.100.30 Management of human resources

The purpose of this document is to help members of the oil and gas industry develop, implement, maintain and improve their own competency management systems (CMS) for well operations personnel. This document supports competency management general principles which can be applied to any operation within the industry.

The annexes to this document list example competence profiles for personnel responsible for well integrity. Annex A includes an example worksheet which can be used in performing a competency assessment, to help record the assessment results versus expectation, as well as the resulting action plan to address any gaps identified.

This document is applicable to all operators, service companies and drilling contractors working on wells and well operations.