STAFFORD, Texas-- OpenSpirit announces its participation in a widespread industry initiative to bring enhanced integration and interoperability to geoscientists working in the oil and gas upstream sector.

 OpenSpirit has a decade-long track record of providing open integration and interoperability solutions to the energy industry, enabling collaborative workflows and multi-vendor data accessibility for the diverse and complex environments used in today's exploration and production (E&P) workflows.

OpenSpirit joins Microsoft Corp. and other solution providers as part of the newly announced Microsoft Upstream Reference Architecture Initiative. Microsoft launched this initiative in an ongoing effort to enable collaborative workflows and multi-vendor data accessibility across the full E&P business. The project leverages technologies from several partners to bring together data, systems, and workflows from geoscience, production, operations, finance, and other critical business areas.

"Management of the oilfield lifecycle demands complete integration from subsurface interpretation to production," says Ali Ferling, Managing Director of Worldwide Oil and Gas Industries at Microsoft. "A flexible and open IT foundation is critical in delivering a common, integrated approach to digital oilfield operations. With its sole focus on providing integration and interoperability across multiple platforms, systems and complex geology and geophysical data types, OpenSpirit will play a unique role in the realization of the Microsoft Upstream Reference Architecture Initiative, bringing the subsurface together with operations and production systems."

"OpenSpirit is pleased to provide a key piece of the technology supporting the vision of the Microsoft Upstream Reference Architecture Initiative," says Dan Piette, President & CEO of OpenSpirit. "The diversity of platforms and technology used in the complex world of upstream exploration and production requires cross-discipline interoperability, collaboration, and data management. With our decade-long business model of providing open interoperability and workflow solutions in this area, it is a natural fit to team with Microsoft and its industry partners as part of the Upstream Reference Architecture Initiative in the realization of the digital oilfield vision."

The efforts of this initiative will provide organizations a real roadmap for designing and implementing a true smart field encompassing all aspects integrated operations out to a single presentation layer.

About OpenSpirit

The OpenSpirit Corporation, based near Houston in Stafford, 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 is installed worldwide in more than 450 sites and 300 companies. With a growing partner network of more than 55 partners with more than 40 OpenSpirit-enabled applications, OpenSpirit allows interoperability between multiple vendors' applications and data, enabling oil company end users in 65 countries to speed up critical workflows and enhance analysis in the geotechnical space. www.openspirit.com or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it