Despite an industry in crisis, a lot is happening in upstream software. Oil IT Journal editor Neil McNaughton reports on the huge data migration effort required to power-on OSDU, on OSDU pushback from the SPE, on Shell's own (non OSDU) OpenAI initiative, on the strangeness of 'hiding' emissions data, on the great conflation of IT and 'green', on the sadness of Total's putting its measurement center on the block, and on Schlumberger's OSDU endgame. There is a lot in this month's editorial (and even more in the full issue for subscribers).