Our Open Standards Community

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Our Open Standards Community

WITSML Seminar Exhibition Aberdeen,
Scotland 19 October 2006

• Jerry Hubbard
• Executive Vice President, Business Development
• Petrotechnical Open Standards Consortium

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The Community

• Loose confederation of standards users
• Norway
• North America
• Nowhere else?
• Organized, inclusive and collaborative
• Development
• Adoption
• Deployment
• Shared risk shared success

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The Regions

• POSC will encourage participation and coordinate
  communications between users of open standards
  through the establishment of eight global regions
• North America (United States, Canada and Mexico)
• South America (Central and South America)
• Western Europe (European Union and Scandinavia)
• Eastern Europe (Russia, Kazakhstan and non-EU
  states)
• Middle East (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain)
• Africa (Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, South
  Africa)
• Asia South (India, Singapore, Australia, New
  Zealand)
• Asia Pacific (China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam,
  Philippines)

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The Regions

• The mission
• Establish a regional presence for standards
• Improve communications among users
• Provide localization to the message
• Identify new standards requirements
• Drive adoption and deep deployment
• Facilitate an active global community

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The Regions

• The Region Lead will
• Be from a Sustaining, Contributing or Associated
  member company in good standing
• Be physically located within the boundaries of
  the Region.
• Be conversant in one local language other than
  English.
• Be willing to devote approximately one day per
  month on standards community activities.
• Be willing to contact potential community members
  in the Region
• Provide communications to the Houston office on
  Region membership/development/deployment
  opportunities
• Set up one major Region meeting per year
  including
• Engaging a sponsor and a venue
• Identifying and inviting potential attendees
• Obtaining translations of invitations, agendas,
  documents

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The Regions

• North America
• 7 NOV 06
• South America
• March 2007
• Asia South
• 14 JAN 2007
• Asia Pacific
• December 2006

• Western Europe
• 19 OCT 2006
• Middle East
• November 2006
• Africa
• April 2007
• Eastern Europe
• February 2007

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Communications

• Effective and open information sharing
• Lessons learned from pilots and projects
• Improvements to current standards
• New standards to meet requirements
• External Communications
• PR to educate others in the industry
• Internal Communications
• Members delivering the deployment message
• Visibility of success attracts new members

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The Energy Standards Resource Centre

• Offering a neutral and collaborative work space
• Intuitive and functional website
• Project management and development tools
• Integration of technical and business standards
• Links to standards important to the industry
• Petrotechnical
• Well Identification
• Products, Services and Equipment Classification
• e-Commerce
• Other industry standards

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The Membership

• Sustaining Members
• Full membership rights
• SIG and Work Group participation
• Contributing Members
• SIG and Work Group participation
• Associated Members
• Reciprocal memberships
• SIG and Work Group participation

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Membership Opportunities

• We currently have 67 member companies
• We need participation from
• More national energy companies
• More professional services organizations
• More vertical service companies
• More horizontal IT organizations
• More regulatory agencies
• Our membership should reflect the entire spectrum
  of the upstream oil and gas community

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Thank You!