Energistics serves as facilitator, custodian and advocate for the development and adoption of technical open data exchange standards in the upstream industry.

MIMOSA, an operations and maintenance open systems alliance, is a not-for-profit trade association dedicated to developing and encouraging the adoption of open information standards for Operations and Maintenance in manufacturing, fleet, and facility environments.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international industry consortium of over 400 companies, government agencies and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface standards.

The OPC Foundation is dedicated to ensuring interoperability in automation by creating and maintaining open specifications that standardize the communication of acquired process data, alarm and event records, historical data, and batch data to multi-vendor enterprise systems and between production devices.

PIDX International provides a global forum for delivering the process, information and technology standards that facilitates seamless, efficient electronic business within the oil and natural gas industry and its trading community.

The Pipeline Open Data Standard Association (PODS) is dedicated to ensuring interoperability in automation by creating and maintaining open specifications that standardize the communication of acquired process data, alarm and event records, historical data, and batch data to multi-vendor enterprise systems and between production devices.

POSC Caesar Association (PCA) is an independent, global member organisation developing, enhancing, and promoting methodology, technology and solutions for data interoperability with special focus on ISO 15926 and W3C recommendations.

The Professional Petroleum Data Management Association (PPDM) is a global not-for-profit organization within the petroleum industry to promote professional petroleum data management through the development and dissemination of best practices.

The Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) is a not-for-profit organization that promotes the science of applied geophysics and the education of geophysicists. The Society fulfills its mission through its publications, conferences, forums, web sites, and educational opportunities.