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SpatialNews Press Release
Shell International Exploration And Production Joins OGC
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Liege Belgium, April 4, 2001. OGC, Inc. (the Open GIS Consortium) announced today that Shell
International Exploration and Production Inc. (Houston, TX) joined OGC recently as a
Principal Member.
Approximately 80% of all data transactions in the upstream oil and gas business involve the
location component of that data. This makes geospatial data the most frequently used data
category in this business sector.
As a technological leader in the oil and gas business sector, Shell views software
integration as a means to increase effectiveness and efficiency of business processes.
Though Shell develops custom software for certain critical applications, Shell would prefer
to use commercially available `plug-and-play' software components for functionality that is
routine for its business, such as the handling of geospatial data.
To accomplish this goal, Shell has chosen to collaborate with OGC and its members to achieve
the OGC vision of "complete integration of geoprocessing into mainstream computing". Shell
has joined OGC as a principal member to influence and accelerate the development of the
geoprocessing specifications it sees as necessary, and to encourage software companies to
implement these specifications where possible.
David Schell, President of OGC, said, "Shell will lead the oil and gas industry in
introducing requirements for interoperability that will almost immediately begin to influence
the software vendors serving that industry. There are special interoperability requirements
in oil and gas exploration and production, but here, as in most other industries, the
dominant trend is toward standards-enabled integration with more general purpose kinds of
software."
OGC is an international industry consortium of over 200 companies, government agencies and
universities working together to develop geoprocessing standards. OGC's OpenGIS
Specifications establish common geoprocessing interfaces and protocols that "geo-enable" the
Web, so developers can make complex geographic and non-graphic spatial information accessible
and useful for all kinds of applications. Visit OGC at www.opengis.org
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