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Houston, Texas –  The Petroleum Industry Data Exchange, Inc. (PIDX) and Leadership for Energy Automated Processing (LEAP) jointly announced today that their organizations are working together to further digitize and automate the European barge oil trading market centered around Amsterdam/Rotterdam/Antwerp (ARA). The organizations are building upon a functional standard agreed via a LEAP committee formed in February 2018 and extending the existing PIDX standard LoadingDeliveryReceipt Version 5.02 to accommodate certain new requirements needed for ARA buyers, sellers, and terminal operators.

LEAP and its members, together with other contributing companies within this sector, believe that creating a standard electronic movement document standard will allow market participants to automate post-trade processes like inventory actualization, settlement, and demurrage calculations. They share a vision of a future ecosystem in which buyers, sellers, terminal operators, and other third party service providers will collaborate with each other for barge movements in a similar manner as is widely in place for truck movement.

“LEAP is continuing to find ways to standardize commonly used documents within the oil trading lifecycle to allow our members and other market participants to get out from under their piles of paper and digitize their processes,” said Owen O’Connell, Chairman of LEAP. “We are excited to collaborate with PIDX to implement common business processes and also reduce costs to develop standards by extending PIDX’s current document standards.”

Chris Welsh, Chairman of PIDX Board stated, “It is important for PIDX to be flexible in standards development and a key part of this is the collaboration with other standards organizations to rapidly develop and deploy new digital standards. With the current end-to-end digital transformation agenda within Oil & Gas, standards development is a high priority. This collaboration with LEAP is the first of many opportunities for each of the standards bodies to leverage the strengths of each organization and deliver a work product for the industry, thereby reducing costs and speeding up delivery. We see this as a natural progression for standards bodies to help develop the interoperability required by our industry.”

About LEAP
LEAP’s mission is to promote efficient and reliable transaction processing within the energy trading industry. More information about LEAP and how to join, including our Limited Project Participation option, is available at http://www.energyleap.org/about-us/how-to-join/.

Membership in LEAP is open to energy trading, service and association entities on a nondiscriminatory basis. All members must be legal entities, not natural persons.

About PIDX

Based in Houston, Texas, PIDX standards serves both the upstream, midstream and downstream segments of the Oil & Gas industry. PIDX is comprised of Oil & Gas industry standards leaders who work together to facilitate eCommerce since 1987, and is committed to continuing the development of technology, information and business process standards that allow the effective and efficient implementation of eCommerce on a global scale.

PIDX holds three conferences annually: the U.S. Fall & Spring conferences and the European conference. The U.S. Fall Conference is October 15th in Houston, Texas.

To learn more about the PIDX Ambassador program or upcoming PIDX conferences, please contact info@pidx.org.

MEDIA CONTACTS:
Kevin Jandora
+1 (203) 354-4502
kjandora@energyleap.org

Karen Diaz
+1 (832) 681-7350
kdiaz@pidx.org