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David Archer, president and CEO of the Petrotechnical Open Standards Consortium discusses the key activities and the standards developed during the organization's 14 year history.
The POSC is an international, not-for-profit, membership organization designed to unite industry people, issues and ideas to collaboratively address energy information challenges and opportunities.
Archer focuses on the value delivered to the industry via the consortium's work on information management standards and XML-based data exchange standards for real time systems including the popular WITSMLstandard for drilling. This presentation addresses the evolution of the WITSML framework to provide XML standards for production operations.
Archer is the leader of the consortium with responsibility for its direction, operation and communication with both the POSC Community and the industry at large.
Throughout his professional career, Archer has had strong interests in collaborative efforts across both disciplines and organizations. He has also been very interested in new technologies and has helped pioneer several for the industry, including graphical user interfaces, 3D visualization, XML and Web Services.
An adjunct mathematics professor at the University of Houston, Archer is also on the university’s advisory board of the college of technology.
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