oa BP's Experience with Open-source Software and Open Datasets

BP has had a long history of sharing the kernels of their inhouse processing packages with the wider geophysical community, in particular "FreeUSP" and "FreeDDS" via the website "freeusp.org". These packages have allowed BP to proselytize their approach to how to organize seismic data and process it. That is useful, because BP can more conveniently share algorithms with contractors who have adopted the packages or had their own software methodology influenced by them. These contractors can then use the algorithms to process data to BP's specifications.