hydrocarbon management committee 4

HMC-4 is made up of two committees. HMC-4A is the Marine Oil Transportation Database Committee and HMC-4B is the Oil Transportation Measurement Committee.

Membership of the B committee is open to all organizations involved in oil transportation with a broad and ongoing involvement with measurement and who are prepared to contribute to Committee activities. The Committee is involved with improvement and development of standards and procedures. This work is now generally carried out jointly with the API. Representatives of the API, shipping companies (Intertanko), inspection companies (IFIA), pipeline companies and terminal operators are regular invitees to meetings.

Membership of the A committee is dependant on submission of voyage data for analysis. The analysis is carried out on a strictly confidential basis. Members receive a global report covering all data together with an individual company report and a comparative report which allows comparison of company losses by crude grade with those experienced by the rest of the members.

database committee, HMC-4A

Data is submitted at the end of January each year. Reports are issued in March/April. There is  an annual charge to cover preparation of the report, meeting minutes etc. which will be around USD3000 for 2008. Invoices are issued with the report.

General findings from the database are published each year in the Petroleum Review.

measurement committee, HMC-4B

There is no fee for attendance/membership of the HMC-4B committee.
There are two meetings per year and although members find attendance very useful and informative it is not necessary to attend all the meetings. A number of companies are happy to participate by submitting data and receiving reports and minutes but attend very few meetings due to travel difficulties etc.

For more information on membership please contact the Energy Institute on +44 (0) 207 467 7100

HMC-4 Last Meeting

HMC-4A Members List

HMC-4A Membership Guide