Setting the Stage

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Setting the Stage

• IAGC An industry trade association
• How a trade association adds value
• What IAGC is not
• Legions of people
• For crisis response to government issues
• To staff other issues
• Major advocacy force
• What IAGC is (next slide)

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What IAGC is

• The industrys voice
• A place for competitors to work common issues
• Provides structure and facilitates
• Minimal staff
• Focused and effective
• Ultimately, IAGC is its membership

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Vision for IAGC

• Its all about adding maximum value
• Grounded in the core businesses (data
  acquisition, data licensing, data processing)
• Requires strong sense of priority
• Focused on issues most vital to core businesses
• Work those vital issues effectively
• Strong participation all levels of geophysical
  industry
• Respectful of members resources
• Recognized as a key player in advocacy
• A culture of effectiveness

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The value of IAGC

• IAGC members enterprises (competitors) that are
  economically aligned
• IAGC members combine people, voice and money to
  work common issues
• This is inherently more effective than working
  individually
• Combined voice of industry loudest and
  therefore most influential (universal)
• Consensus position is what governments seek
  without fringe positions
• Combined voice carries more weight than
  individual positions
• IAGC voice is anonymous for members minimizes
  chance of retribution
• Areas of greatest value
• Government advocacy
• Utilize voice and money, some member personnel
• Standards and best practices
• Utilize mostly member personnel, some voice
• Commercial issues
• Utilize member personnel and voice
• Money used for basic capacity small staff,
  travel, basic level of service
• glue that holds IAGC together

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Government Advocacy some examples

• Marine Mammal issue
• US 2002 MMS NTL 2003 NMFS NOPR 2005 EIS
  Scoping 2004 2005 MMC FACA report to Congress
  (Note MMS draft NTL resulted in no night
  operations) 2006 Alaska surveys.
• Australia 2001 guidelines 2004 and 2006
  guideline revisions
• Brazil 2002 ongoing IBAMA regulations
  legislation
• UK 2004 guideline revisions
• Canada 2005 and 2006 guideline revision
• IWC deliberations ongoing
• Research filling knowledge gaps to inform
  government
• A key tool for advocacy

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Government Advocacy some examples

• Data Licensing
• Brazil
• 2003 IAGC negotiated settlement of government
  challenge to use of MC data shot before permit
  regime
• 2006 ongoing current defense of confidentiality
  terms
• Australia 2003, 2005, 2006 ongoing
• Improving data release terms to attract new
  investment
• US
• 2002, 2006 ongoing defending against shortening
  confidentiality period
• UK 2003, 2004, 2006 ongoing
• Successful defense of status quo on data release
  period against EP company attempts to shorten
• Indonesia (ongoing) Making MC data cost
  recoverable
• See Commercial Issues slide next for more
• US Access Issues
• Access to federal lands BLM in the Rocky
  Mountain states
• 2005 Energy Policy Act OCS inventory OCS 5 Year
  Leasing Plans, etc.

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Commercial Issues some examples

• Statement of Principles
• Final in 2003, contract language added in 2004
• Contract services SOPs primarily risk transfer
• Data licensing SOPs include
• History
• Key areas of abuse, including data transfer fees
• Code of practice
• State of industry message 2002 and 2003
• Consistent message got clients attention,
  dialogue
• New model data license agreement late 2003
• And Code of Practice widely distributed TLE
  article

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Pooling Resources for Common Benefit

• Development of safety manuals, training videos,
  educational materials, etc.
• Development of Model Data License Agreement and
  Code of Practice
• Development of Statements of Principles for Data
  Acquisition and Data Licensing
• Development of industry guidelines, for example
• Time share, safe distances (in draft), explosive
  detonators, workboat guidelines, MMO forms
• Marine Environment Research to fill knowledge
  gaps
• US GOM Research Program huge leverage!
• Spending from 2002 through 2005 (in 000s)
• MMS 5,500 EP Cos. 2,330 IAGC 270
• IAGC has same access to all information as EP
  Companies
• Key studies (there are more)
• SWSS US GOM (field work in 2002 2005)
• PAMGUARD PAM software technology
• Source characterization 2003, 2005 and 2006
  ongoing
• OGP JIP industry wide research effort to fill
  knowledge gaps
• 14 members so far, 3 year commitment, approx. 9
  million annually
• IAGC VP of Marine Environment (added in 2006)
• Full time technical expert dedicated to the issue

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