Oil & Gas UK Membership Pack

COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTORATE One of Oil & Gas UK’s strategic priorities is to raise the positive profile and reputation of the industry. The Communications Directorate contributes directly to this aim. The teamworks with colleagues across the Oil &Gas UK Directorates to bring the policies and programmes endorsed by Council and Board to a wider audience through Government relations, media relations, publishing services and events. It uses briefings, meetings, conferences and other special events to inform key stakeholders about the industry, taking journalists and politicians directly to the heart of its issues through regular news updates and comment as well as site visits to member companies, both on and offshore. Close contact with the Parliaments in London, Edinburgh and Brussels, the Scottish and UK Governments, EU Commission, regulators, local authorities and other stakeholders across the UK and elsewhere also allows Oil & Gas UK to keep abreast of the regulatory, legislative and economic developments that could affect your company and to help frame appropriate, strategic responses on behalf of the industry. Oil & Gas UK membership will allow you to participate in the Communications Policy Advisory Forum and its issue-driven ad hoc work groups, as well as the opportunity to work with the team’s communications professionals to highlight your company’s successes through case studies, site visits and events sponsorship.

Policy Director Trisha O’Reilly

E: toreilly@oilandgasuk.co.uk

COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTORATE: COMMUNICATIONS POLICY ADVISORY FORUM (CPAF)

Why should you engage? The Communications Policy Advisory Forum offers media and Government relations practitioners in member companies the opportunity to raise industry reputational issues with the Association and the opportunity to help shape the external communications carried out by Oil & Gas UK on behalf of the industry. The briefings, fact sheets, statements and comments issued by the Association may also be used to inform member companies’ own communication programmes.

Who can participate? Membership of the Communications Policy Advisory Forum is open to all Oil & Gas UK member companies.

How frequently are meetings held? The Communications Policy Advisory Forum largely operates as a ‘virtual’ network but meets physically twice a year in June and December. Its ad hoc issue-driven workshops meet as and when required.

Example topics • Decommissioning Steering Group Task Group 4 (Comms) • EU Offshore Safety Regulation • Gas advocacy • Economics and fiscal issues • Social and digital media • Industry reputation DIRECTORATES AND ASSOCIATED FORUMS Page 5