Object Management Group (OMG) is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry standards consortium. Founded in 1989, OMG standards are driven by vendors, end-users, academic institutions and government agencies.

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.

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international voluntary consensus standards organization of over 470 companies, government agencies and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface, encoding, and protocol standards for enabling the integration and sharing of geospatial content and services in any GIS, location services, remote sensing, portal or other applications.

The Professional Petroleum Data Management Association (PPDM) is the not for profit, global society that enables the development of professional data managers, engages them in community, and endorses a collective body of knowledge for data management across the oil and gas industry.

Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) is a not-for-profit organization that promotes the science of applied geophysics and the education of geophysicists. SEG, founded in 1930, fosters the expert and ethical practice of geophysics in the exploration and development of natural resources, in characterizing the near surface, and in mitigating earth hazards.

USPI-NL is a non-profit association. The association is managed by the Executive Committee (EC) and by the members Management Board (MB).