"Whereoil Enterprise allows our customers to find and manage all their data, structured or unstructured, wherever they are, from one, easy-to-use interface," says Gianluca Monachese, Kadme's founder and Director of Business Development. "The partnership with OpenSpirit is an important step, supported by our customers, to further increase the reach of Whereoil Enterprise into the ever-growing number of data sources covered by OpenSpirit".

"We are pleased to have Kadme join the OpenSpirit Business Partner family," says Brian Boulmay, Director of Business Partners. "This relationship will extend workflow possibilities for OpenSpirit customers by providing enterprise search capabilities that will plug into their existing OpenSpirit infrastructures.  In addition to adding OpenSpirit data sources to Whereoil, users will have the added benefit of Interoperability events, allowing them to broadcast data from the search results out to any OpenSpirit-enabled application. This capability will greatly enhance the workflows and streamline access to information for users".

OpenSpirit is participating in the 72nd EAGE Conference & Exhibition in Barcelona, Spain.

XHQ Operations Intelligence product line aggregates, relates and presents operational and business data in real-time to improve enterprise performance. End users have a single coherent view of information, enabling a variety of solutions in real-time performance management and decision support.

"Operations professionals are challenged to pull together a complete, timely picture of their data," says Jesse DeMesa, Director of XHQ Operations at Siemens. "XHQ brings these pieces together, and by using the OpenSpirit interoperability layer to bring in the complex view of the subsurface from multiple applications, customers will have a more comprehensive, integrated view of their information than ever before."

Together, OpenSpirit and Siemens Energy illustrate the possibilities envisioned from the Microsoft Upstream Oil & Gas Reference Architecture project. Combining all of the supported systems across these frameworks gives the end user the flexibility and capability to bring together the full intelligent oil field in one presentation layer.

"Like OpenSpirit, Siemens believes that the best decisions require the latest data from all angles," says Dan Piette, President & CEO of OpenSpirit. "Their philosophy of providing timely operational data when and where it's needed is a perfect complement to our own goal of providing an integrated solution that delivers right-time data while streamlining exploration and production workflows."

OpenSpirit is participating in the 72nd EAGE Conference & Exhibition in Barcelona, Spain.

"The synergy from this agreement results in the best of both worlds - data interoperability and data management," said John Wearing, Petris vice president of product management. "Managers will now have access to a far greater range of data for improved decision making and business intelligence."

"We are pleased to have Petris join the OpenSpirit Business Partner program," said Suri Bhat, Director of Product Marketing. "This expanded relationship will extend the data access options for users of the PWE solution, as well as add new application interoperability workflows for our mutual customers. From a single user environment, OpenSpirit clients will now have access to a data management platform that plugs into their existing infrastructure, allowing them search, find and broadcast data to the full portfolio of OpenSpirit-enabled applications."

ABOUT PETRIS
Petris is a leading supplier of practical data management solutions and geosciences applications to the global energy industry. Founded in 1994 and with over 500 clients throughout the world, Petris leverages its insight and knowledge to design technology that integrates information from diverse data stores including managerial, seismic, borehole, production, drilling, and pipeline to enable continually better decision making and application transparency.

CONTACT
John Wearing, Vice President
john.wearing@petris.com
+1 713-403-8425

OpenSpirit joins Microsoft Corp. and other solution providers as part of the newly announced Microsoft Upstream Reference Architecture Initiative. Microsoft launched this initiative in an ongoing effort to enable collaborative workflows and multi-vendor data accessibility across the full E&P business. The project leverages technologies from several partners to bring together data, systems, and workflows from geoscience, production, operations, finance, and other critical business areas.

"Management of the oilfield lifecycle demands complete integration from subsurface interpretation to production," says Ali Ferling, Managing Director of Worldwide Oil and Gas Industries at Microsoft. "A flexible and open IT foundation is critical in delivering a common, integrated approach to digital oilfield operations. With its sole focus on providing integration and interoperability across multiple platforms, systems and complex geology and geophysical data types, OpenSpirit will play a unique role in the realization of the Microsoft Upstream Reference Architecture Initiative, bringing the subsurface together with operations and production systems."

"OpenSpirit is pleased to provide a key piece of the technology supporting the vision of the Microsoft Upstream Reference Architecture Initiative," says Dan Piette, President & CEO of OpenSpirit. "The diversity of platforms and technology used in the complex world of upstream exploration and production requires cross-discipline interoperability, collaboration, and data management. With our decade-long business model of providing open interoperability and workflow solutions in this area, it is a natural fit to team with Microsoft and its industry partners as part of the Upstream Reference Architecture Initiative in the realization of the digital oilfield vision."

The efforts of this initiative will provide organizations a real roadmap for designing and implementing a true smart field encompassing all aspects integrated operations out to a single presentation layer.

Within the Microsoft Upstream Reference Architecture, BabelFish is well positioned as a master data dictionary and modeling solution for production data. By integrating with the OpenSpirit SDK, a user can access a common well identification system from concept through abandonment using one set of SDKs and a consistent reference structure. BabelFish is widely used by operational and management staff to collate data from field equipment, process control systems and management systems in near real time, or on a shift or ad-hoc basis. The ability to link directly to real-time operational systems and combine raw process data with business rules and management information makes the BabelFish and OpenSpirit integration a powerful operational intelligence and management system.

"By integrating with OpenSpirit, end users can now integrate operational data with their E&P data and workflows along with a unique Well Identifier that we will maintain throughout," says Grant Eggleton ,Business Development Manager ISS Group. "Bringing together the OpenSpirit and BabelFish frameworks gives organizations full data access across their operations. Clients can directly access the data in context from systems that they are familiar with, including production systems and applications, geology, geophysics, and engineering platforms, with minimal effort."

Together, OpenSpirit and BabelFish begin to build on the possibilities envisioned from the Microsoft Upstream Reference Architecture initiative. Combining all of the supported systems across these frameworks gives oil company end users the flexibility and capability to bring together a complete intelligent oil field in one presentation layer. This combined offering is an ideal structural element to Integrated Operations and allows for the "asset" to be the focal point.

"BabelFish is one of the market leaders in linking operational systems, field equipment and management applications" says Dan Piette, President & CEO of OpenSpirit. "Combining this with the OpenSpirit tools extends the integration capabilities of the field of the future further than ever before for our mutual customers. We are excited to offer this capability to the market."

About ISS Group Limited
ISS Group delivers software solutions to the global energy, minerals and manufacturing industries. ISS Group was established in 1995 and listed on the ASX in 2004. The Company has offices in Australia, US, Europe and Asia and has a blue chip client base including BG Group, BHP Billiton, Saudi Aramco, Woodside, Rio Tinto, Shell, BP, Petronas & British Energy. The company's flagship product BabelFish is a powerful interface through which companies can aggregate their many disparate real-time systems to provide a single holistic view of their complex processes and operations. ISS have recently added GIS capability to BabelFish. Please visit www.issgroup.com.au for further information.

CONTACT
Grant Eggleton
Global Business Development Manager
ISS Group Ltd.
+ 61 892410336
grant.eggleton@issgroup.com.au

ffA Technology provides a powerful and flexible platform for 3D seismic analysis that allows interpreters to extract information from 3D seismic data objectively with unprecedented efficiency and accuracy. This translates to substantial improvement in reservoir characterization and 3D geological model construction, alongside better understanding of exploration risk and shorter interpretation cycles.

OpenSpirit delivers vendor-neutral integration solutions that impact the way energy professionals around the world leverage and interact with their data. Geoscientists gain seamless access to data from any OpenSpirit-enabled data store and can combine diverse applications to generate innovative cross-vendor workflows.

By incorporating the OpenSpirit data interoperability framework as part of their 3D seismic analysis solution, ffA offers customers an enhanced level of integration and more importantly the flexibility to create robust and value-added workflows using data from across their petro-technical environment.

With the OpenSpirit connectivity, users of ffA's SVI Pro application on Windows and from SEA 3D Pro on Linux can access an alternative route to easily import both 3D seismic and well data, and export 3D seismic data back into the data store. In addition, a significant additional advantage of the system is the ability to create SVI Pro and SEA 3D Pro's project setup directly from the data store with the appropriate integration of coordinate reference system information.

Steve Purves, ffA's Technical Director said "Workflow integration and increase of interoperability between SVI Pro, SEA 3D Pro and interpretation software packages is a large part of ffA's application development activities in 2010, providing OpenSpirit connectivity is a first and key step in that program. With OpenSpirit connectivity, we are providing a robust and convenient route for our users to move 3D subsurface information to and from our products and their interpretation packages and data stores. "

"OpenSpirit has a decade-long track record of providing open integration and interoperability solutions to the energy industry," says Dan Piette, President & CEO of OpenSpirit. "We appreciate the opportunity to work with the ffA team to OpenSpirit-enable their innovative products. Their "project setup" feature is an innovative use of our data access services and we are excited about the streamlined workflows they are bringing to our mutual customers. They are truly enabling collaborative workflows and multi-vendor data accessibility for the diverse and complex environments used in today's E&P workflows."

CONTACT
Lynn Stevenson, Sales and Marketing Coordinator
+44 (0)1224 672 442
lynn.stevenson@ffa.co.uk

The OpenSpirit framework will enhance Fugro's ability to streamline data search and transfer between applications and data stores, resulting in increased efficiency and productivity for data management and geoscience staff and reducing overall IT and data management costs.

Currently, Fugro Data Solutions is working to OpenSpirit enable the Trango Data Management suite, which provides advanced master data management capabilities for corporate seismic, well and geological report data. OpenSpirit connectivity will better enable data manager's exploration asset management and improve exploration asset availability. Commercial release is expected in the first half of 2010.

In tandem with the work at Fugro Data Solutions, developers at Fugro-Jason are working to provide cross-discipline connectivity to users of Fugro Jason tools, such as PowerLog and Jason Geoscience Workbench; a petrophysics, geology, interpretation, and modeling solution. Fugro Jason is a leader in reservoir characterization technology, and has utilized OpenSpirit for specific solutions for several years. 

"We have heard from our customers that the ability to get control of their data assets and enable seamless use of these assets in interpretations systems will greatly benefit their workflows.  We believe our efforts to enable end users of Trango and Fugro Jason applications is an excellent step to helping our customers derive additional value in their organizations," said Deryl Williams, President of Fugro Data Solutions Canada.

"We are committed to Fugro's success and appreciate the opportunity to grow this strategic partnership and make a difference across their entire organization," said Dan Piette, President & CEO of OpenSpirit. "This business partner agreement is investment in our technology, as well as our people and future vision."

Looking to the future, Fugro and OpenSpirit will continue working together to improve data connectivity and performance for customers.   

"We worked with OpenSpirit and IHS to develop an application that loads data from an IHS Web Services Domestic XML feed into the variety of data stores supported by the OpenSpirit framework," said Steve Cooper, President of EnergyIQ. "The EIQ Loader is our flagship product, and ensures that commercial E&P data is loaded and updated in a consistent and timely fashion, providing broader and faster access to the available data, thereby ensuring consistency across diverse data stores.

OpenSpirit connectivity extends EIQ Loader beyond PPDM to include other industry databases such as KINGDOM, OpenWorks, Petra, GeoFrame, Finder, and Recall allowing oil companies to more easily keep date vendor data current in their project database of choice.

With EIQ Loader 2.0 Enterprise, you can perform both base loads and scheduled updates of the IHS Domestic XML feeds to any OpenSpirit-enabled data store.  This can be set up for a specific geographic area of interest or across your entire subscription of data.  With EIQ Loader 2.0 Desktop, end users can receive an area of interest from OpenSpirit-enabled applications (including ArcMap, ArcGIS Explorer, and web maps) and interactively query the IHS web service to pull across all relevant data directly into their project database. The data is immediately available for new analysis and project work in their OpenSpirit-enabled tool of choice.

"We are excited about the release of EIQ Loader 2.0. It is an entirely new style of OpenSpirit integration, enabling Internet-based web services delivery of data immediately into the desktop environment via OpenSpirit services," said Brian Boulmay, OpenSpirit Director of Business Partners. "This is an innovative example of leveraging internal and external services to streamline access to data and accelerate your projects."

OpenSpirit is the energy industry's open integration and interoperability standard, enabling collaborative workflows and multi-vendor data accessibility among the diverse and complex environments used in today's E&P workflows. From ArcGIS Desktop to ArcGIS Server, OpenSpirit integrates with all levels of ESRI GIS technology, facilitating cross-disciplinary mapping and spatial data management workflows between GIS, geology and geophysics, as well as integrating subsurface workflows and data with surface workflows and information, such as Land, HSE, Transportation, Pipeline and other departments of oil companies.  

The award was presented during the annual ESRI Business Partner Conference by Jack Dangermond, President of ESRI, to Brian Boulmay, Business Partner Director, OpenSpirit.

"Through the Partner of the Year Award for the Energy Sector, ESRI recognizes the outstanding contribution OpenSpirit has made in their promotion of spatial data management as a key component of an oil company's enterprise data integration strategy," said Dangermond. "Their revolutionary platform enables end users to combine the capabilities of the ArcGIS platform with industry-leading geotechnical and geoscience solutions in elegant and highly effective practices."

Since becoming part of the ESRI partner family in 2000, OpenSpirit has developed a comprehensive suite of GIS tools, including an ArcGIS Desktop Extension, an ArcGIS Explorer Add-in, a Scan Utility that spatializes subsurface databases, an ArcGIS SDE Data Connector, and the integration of ArcGIS Server and ESRI Web services with OpenSpirit REST Web services. End users have the flexibility to leverage their ESRI GIS client of choice, with the simplicity of managing just one integration platform.

"We are honored to receive partner of the year recognition from ESRI," said Dan Piette, President & CEO of OpenSpirit. "The energy industry is a spatial business and we have focused on ensuring our technology is integrated with ESRI tools since our company's inception. This collaboration helps our mutual customers manage their complete business workflows via a single integration layer, and ensures accurate and repeatable coordinate, unit, interoperability, and data access processes. We are continuing this focus in 2010 with the release of several new GIS products."

About OpenSpirit
OpenSpirit began as a consortium of several oil companies and industry vendors working together to define a solution for cross-vendor collaboration.  An independent software company since 2000, OpenSpirit continues this vision with a focus on providing integration and interoperability solutions for upstream applications and data. The OpenSpirit framework enables innovative cross-vendor workflows including, data access/management/movement, GIS integration, G&G analytical workflows, application interoperability and web services integration.  www.openspirit.com info@openspirit.com.

About ESRI
Founded in 1969, ESRI is the world leader in the GIS software industry. ESRI offers innovative solutions that help users create, manage, analyze, and display information to make timely decisions and solve problems they encounter every day. ESRI's comprehensive product line ranges from desktop GIS to GIS for the enterprise. www.esri.com