Major oil companies to develop industry software infrastructure

Chevron Corp., the Royal Dutch/Shell Group, and Schlumberger Ltd. signed a memorandum of understanding to create a new company to develop and market the next generation of standardized software infrastructure, or 'middleware,' for upstream applications and data integration, company officials said Monday.

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