We are thrilled to announce that DUG Technology has officially joined The Open Group’s Open Subsurface Data Universe™ (OSDU™) Forum.

DUG has a long-standing commitment to ensuring and enhancing client productivity and efficiency through our innovative technology products. With the OSDU Group’s Open Source, standards-based platform for data integration and handling across a wide range of applications, our technology experts are able to further integrate our proprietary, full-featured visualisation and interpretation package, DUG Insight, with complementary leading geophysical software. As such, building on this new relationship we look forward to empowering our users to deliver even higher quality results and achieve greater efficiencies in even the most complex geophysical projects.

The Open Group is a global consortium of more than 800 technology and industry organisations that seeks to enable the achievement of business objectives through technology standards. Its OSDU Forum delivers an Open Source, standards-based, technology-agnostic data platform for the energy industry that stimulates innovation, industrialises data management and reduces time to market for new solutions. The OSDU Forum seeks to reduce data silos to enable transformational workflows, accelerate the deployment of emerging digital solutions for better decision making and create an open, standards-based ecosystem that drives innovation for the energy industry.

Commenting on the OSDU Forum membership, DUG Managing Director Dr Matthew Lamont said: “We are pleased to be part of The Open Group ecosystem. Open collaboration is key to the development of transformational technology to support the world’s ever-evolving energy requirements. We look forward to contributing to the OSDU Forum’s initiatives as we further progress and share our technology and expertise to benefit the resources sector at large.”