E&P companies need more professionals to get the job done. OpenSpirit integrates upstream applications and data stores, improving the efficiency and productivity of geoscientists, geotechnical specialists and database managers and enabling senior managers to make better decisions while reducing costs.
The OpenSpirit Corporation, based in Sugar Land, Texas, began operations in July 2000 as an independent software company focused on providing integration solutions for upstream applications and data. The OpenSpirit application integration framework allows interoperability between multiple vendors' applications and data, enabling oil company end users to speed up critical work flows and enhance analysis in the geotechnical space.
Infinite Integration
OpenSpirit is an application and data integration framework that gives applications and data stores the flexibility and power to create, read, update and delete data from diverse projects, anywhere within a client's network. Clients have experienced improved productivity, better decision making and lower costs using OpenSpirit to integrate their upstream applications and data stores. OpenSpirit clients have recorded workflow efficiency improvements as high as 99% when importing seismic, interpretation and well data. Accelerated data transfer rates averaging 811% have also been reported.
How OpenSpirit Began
Development of the OpenSpirit Application Framework began in 1997 as a project funded by the OpenSpirit Alliance, a consortium comprised of oil companies and software vendors seeking to address inefficiencies and high costs related to the poor integration capabilities of E&P applications and their related data stores.
With research and development funded by consortium members, a multidisciplinary team of technologists delivered a prototype of an application integration framework in 1999. While it was met with great support among consortium members and the E&P community as a whole, it became apparent that to best serve the industry, it would need to be offered by a commercial entity responsive to market needs. OpenSpirit started operations as an independent software company in 2000.
The Future
OpenSpirit partners with many of the finest E&P solution providers in the world, and 30+ software vendors have licensed the OpenSpirit Developer Kit to provide integration of 40+ applications and 12 databases. It frees software companies from worrying about how to get at the data and allows them to do what they do best: provide technology that helps oil companies make money by finding oil and gas more efficiently. With no comparable competitive product on the market, OpenSpirit will continue its growth and remain the data integration standard in the upstream market segment.
