Our Open Standards Community

1. Our Open Standards Community North America Region Houston, TX 7 November 2006 Jerry Hubbard Executive Vice President, Business Development Petrotechnical Open Standards Consortium

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

3. 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

4. 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)

5. 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

6. The Regions • The Region Lead will: • Be a Sustaining, Contributing or Associated member • Be located within the boundaries of the Region • Be conversant in localization techniques • Be willing to devote one day/month on community activities • Provide a communications conduit to the Houston office • Set up one major Region meeting per year including: • Engaging a sponsor, a venue and speakers • Identifying and inviting potential attendees • Obtaining translations of invitations, agendas, documents

7. 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 The Regions

8. The Energy Standards Resource Centre • A neutral and collaborative work space • Intuitive, functional and educational website • Project management and development tools • Integration of technical and business standards • Links to standards important to the industry • Petrotechnical (WITSML, PRODML) • Global Unique Well Identifier (IHS) • Products, Services & Equipment Classification (ECCMA) • Other global standards (ISO 15926, ISO 22745) • Other industry standards (PIDX, CIDX) • Custodianship of standards • Maintenance and modification

9. 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

10. Membership Opportunities • We currently have 65 member companies • We need to encourage participation from… • National energy companies • Professional services organizations • Vertical service companies • Horizontal IT organizations • Regulatory agencies Our membership should reflect the entire spectrum of the upstream oil and gas community

11. Thank You!

12. Products, Services & EquipmentClassification SIG • Our goals… • To accurately and consistently describe products, simple services and equipment within the upstream oil and gas industry • To facilitate a collaborative project using the ECCMA Open Technical Dictionary • To bridge an intersection point between technical and business standards

13. Products, Services & EquipmentClassification SIG • To ensure that the Oil and Gas Industry uses… • Standard public domain terms, definitions and concept identifiers • A full range of maintenance, repair and operations products, simple services and equipment templates • Open classification standards for life cycle engineering, electronic procurement and interoperability

14. Products, Services & EquipmentClassification SIG • The Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA) • Formed in April 1999, ECCMA brings together thousands of experts from around the world to build and maintain global, open standard dictionaries used to unambiguously label information.

15. Products, Services & EquipmentClassification SIG • ECCMA looks to industry verticals to accept responsibility for building and maintaining the eOTD Identification Guides • An Upstream Oil & Gas Content Standardization Council has been requested from ECCMA • This is a collaborative effort with others in the industry

16. Products, Services & EquipmentClassification SIG • Do we have enough interest from POSC Members to form a Special Interest Group • Who within your organization would be interested in discussing this issue? • The Upstream Oil & Gas Content Standardization Council needs your participation