History

Where it began: Standards for Data Management

We are The Professional Petroleum Data Management Association – a driving force behind the creation of worldwide oil and gas data management standards and provider of:

• Global Community building through events and the Foundations, the Journal of the Professional Petroleum Data Management Association.
  
  
• Professional Development through training and certification programs.
  
  
• Body of Knowledge for Standards and Best Practices including ‘What is a Well?’, 'Well Status and Classification', Data Rules, the Public Petroleum Data Model, Global Well Identification Standards and more.

Our organization got its start in 1988 when, recognizing the need for petroleum data standards, a group of petroleum industry players and data experts joined forces in 1991 to create the Public Petroleum Data Model Association. During the October 2008 conference in Calgary, the PPDM Association voted to change its name to the Professional Petroleum Data Management Association. As a membership-driven, not-for-profit organization, the PPDM Association has been a catalyst for the development of worldwide, business-driven standards for the collection and exchange of petroleum data.