Certification

What is certification?

Within the Oil and Gas industry, certification service can be identified as a verification or certification process and can vary in approach and detail. Depending on the terminology adopted by the country or local market in question, these titles could be essentially referring to the same process, which does lead to some confusion. In both cases, it is an independent assurance service of some form.

In the case of floating assets, assurance may include classification. The Lloyd's Register Group is a leading classification society, working to published in-house class Rules. See classification for more information.

There is usually a mix of statutory and non-statutory elements within a project. The scope and approach within an assurance service will usually be arrived at through a combination of the detailed provisions within the local statutory regime, as well as specific client preferences.

The usual service deliverable is a certificate confirming that our design verification, manufacturing and construction surveillance activities have generated a level of confidence that the industrial activity is achieving the performance objectives. This is supported by the judgement and experience of our technical specialists.

The certification of risk critical equipment items supplied to projects by equipment manufacturers is an important element of the risk management process.

This process particularly needs to consider what contribution individual items of equipment make to the design performance standards that apply to asset. Interpreting these issues and addressing the interfaces and inter-dependencies that arise is best achieved by integrating the verification of equipment manufacturing into the overall verification service for the project.

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