The PDEF initiative is group of offshore oil and gas industry partners who have gathered to specify a data interchange format related to oil and gas subsea pipelines facilities. Our partners observed that all the engineering required for the design, construction and operation of a subsea pipeline requires a wide range of software.
To exchange data between companies or departments of the same company, people use PDF reports containing data that must be manually copied and re-typed into computer programs. As the industry is inevitably stepping towards digital transformation of their work processes, structuring of the data is a requirement faced by all our partners.
The PDEF collaborative initiative was proposed, with the objective to agree on an industry-wide common interchange format that encompass all the data that defines and is used to design, build, and operate subsea pipelines.
