The oil and gas industry generates vast amounts of data at every stage of the well lifecycle: exploration, drilling, completion, and production. Yet much of it remains siloed and underutilized. The Open Subsurface Data Universe (OSDU™) addresses this challenge by providing a common framework for storing, accessing, and exchanging information across workflows.
At IPT Global, we believe the future of well assurance depends on combining advanced digital solutions with industry-wide standards. By aligning well integrity and operational data with these standards, operators gain new ways to improve efficiency, ensure compliance, and strengthen safety.
The OSDU Forum, launched by The Open Group, provides a neutral space where operators, service companies, and technology providers can standardize the way subsurface and operational data is structured, accessed, and shared. The Forum’s goal is to establish a common data platform that removes silos and promotes interoperability across digital tools.
Through this collaboration, the forum unites operators, service companies, and software providers to create shared standards and reference implementations, forming the foundation for managing and exchanging energy data.
The OSDU Data Platform is an open-source, technology-agnostic environment created to eliminate silos and establish a single source of truth for subsurface, well, and operational data.
By providing a secure, scalable foundation, the framework makes information more accessible to operators, service companies, and regulators. This interoperability drives collaboration, speeds decision-making, and enables advanced digital solutions at scale.
Oil and gas companies face persistent data management challenges, including siloed information, inconsistent formats, limited accessibility, and difficulties collaborating across operators, service companies, and regulators.
The OSDU data platform addresses these challenges by providing standardized frameworks and integration across workflows. Adoption of OSDU enables better data accessibility, faster decision-making, lower costs, and a foundation for advanced analytics like AI and machine learning.
The strength of OSDU lies in its reference architecture and standardized data schema. These define how subsurface and operational information is structured, ensuring it can flow seamlessly between different software and workflows.
At IPT Global, we actively contribute to this effort. Our teams have shaped the schemas for Well Barrier Element (WBE) and Well Control Equipment (WCE) Pressure Tests, which are now part of the OSDU reference implementation. This work standardizes well integrity data and contextualizes it for use across drilling, completion, and abandonment workflows.
By working within the OSDU architecture, IPT Global eliminates inefficiencies of custom integrations and positions data for advanced analytics and automation.
As an active member of the OSDU Forum, IPT Global collaborates with industry leaders, technology providers, and regulators to advance open data standards. Together with other OSDU members, we contribute expertise in well assurance, pressure testing, and barrier management to shape how operational data is stored and exchanged.
This role delivers IPT Global clients access to data models designed with real-world assurance workflows in mind, allowing them to adopt OSDU more efficiently and with greater value.
Our standards-based approach extends into IPT Global technology. Through secure application programming interfaces (APIs), we integrate well data, incorporate pressure test results, and connect with cloud-based data lakes. Built on service bus architecture, these integrations deliver information that is consistent, traceable, and actionable across planning, execution, and real-time operations.
By aligning our well integrity and barrier management solutions with the OSDU platform, IPT Global makes assurance data practical and accessible across day-to-day workflows.
The OSDU™ standard is transforming how oil and gas companies manage and use operational data. By replacing fragmented systems with a unified platform, operators can unlock greater value from their information and more effectively adopt advanced digital technologies.
At IPT Global, we put these standards into action. From structuring assurance data and standardizing formatting to embedding well integrity information into daily workflows, we provide the expertise and tools for end-to-end assurance.
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