In 2010 APIA published its Pipeline Engineer Competency Standards, which set out the definitions of competency across the breadth of pipeline engineering roles. It identified
230 Competencies and wrote up 91 of these in detail. However, these Competency Standards, while they left a place marker for offshore pipeline engineering, were focused
on onshore pipelines reflecting the bulk of APIA’s membership. Since then there has been increasing interest and involvement in APIA by the offshore industry, so much so
that a group of key offshore participants have banded together to identify the competencies needed for offshore pipeline engineering and draft them into a set of Competency Standards for offshore pipeline engineers.
