Jana Schey Appointed Vice President, Operations of Energistics

HOUSTON, TX--(Marketwired - Jan 9, 2014) - Energistics, the upstream oil and gas standards consortium, announced today that Jana E. Schey has been appointed Vice President, Operations; she assumed her new duties on January 1, 2014. In her new role, Ms. Schey will now lead Energetics' effort to achieve Certified Standards Development Organization (SDO) status with selected global standards bodies and will continue responsibility for standards development facilitation, volunteer coordination and documentation.

Ms. Schey previously held the Senior Director, Operations and Director, Project Planning & Management positions at Energistics.

"Jana has done an outstanding job leading and facilitating our standards development process over the past 6 years," said Jerry Hubbard, President and CEO of Energistics. "Her management skills, combined with her ability to fairly balance competing interests and focus on collaboration, make Jana the perfect choice to oversee our operations."

Ms. Schey has worked in the oil and gas industry for 13 years. Prior to Energistics, she worked with eProcurement standards (particularly with PIDX) and catalog management. Ms. Schey also has experience in the telecommunications industry in the areas of HSE, corporate security and data exchange/systems integration. She holds a MA degree from the State University of New York - Brockport and a BA degree from Queen's University, Ontario, Canada.

"I am looking forward to expanding my role and continuing to bring value to Energistics and our members," Ms. Schey said of her appointment. "One of the most gratifying aspects of Energistics is the opportunity to work with dedicated and knowledgeable professionals from our member companies and to ensure that they have the support required to collaboratively develop our open data exchange standards."

Energistics is a global, not-for-profit, membership organization that serves as the facilitator, custodian and advocate for the development and adoption of technical open data exchange standards in the upstream oil and gas industry. Uniquely designed to unite upstream industry professionals in a neutral and collaborative facilitation environment, Energistics membership consists of integrated, independent and national oil companies, oilfield service companies, software vendors, system integrators, regulatory agencies and the global standards user community. For more information visit our website at www.energistics.org.