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Proprietary data formats were causing oil companies and vendors to constantly read-write and re-write data from one format to another. One operator in Calgary, Canada got a data vendor and a software company to agree to a set of standards - respectively Gulf Canada, Digitech and Finder (now ChevronTexaco, IHS Energy and Schlumberger Info Services by way of Chevron, QC Data and GeoQuest respectively...). Data standards had been tried before, but they tended to reflect the old IT school - monolithic data models by programmers, for programmers that took significant efforts to maintain and update. The Prizm Consortium as it was called became the Public Petroleum Data Model Association, with a business-driven set of standards written as Oracle scripts to reflect both client and vendor needs. It exists to this day, unlike others gone with the vagaries of their respective sponsors.
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