WITSML™ SIG Meetings and Public Seminar

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WITSML™ SIG Meetingsand Public Seminar

Alan Doniger, POSC May 10-12, 2005


WITSML™ – WWW.WITSML.ORG

Wellsite Information Transfer Standard Markup Language

“The ‘right-time’ seamless flow of well-site data between operators and service companies to speed and enhance decision-making”

A New Open Information Transfer Standard for the Oilfield


The POSC WITSML™ Special Interest Group (SIG)

• The WITSML SIG is the formal user community for the WITSML standards.– Membership is open to all (POSC members and non-member

alike)– Membership grew in ’04 from 17 to 31; now 41– The SIG recognizes requirements and needs– The SIG is the first line of review of new and updated

specifications– The SIG helps promote vendor take-up and operator deployment


WITSML SIG• Area of Interest

– the definition, movement, and storage of drilling data, information, and knowledge,

• especially the “right time” seamless flow of well site data between operators and service companies to speed and enhance decision-making.

– This group is essentially a cross-vendor, cross-product line user community for drilling applications and data storage products and services.

• Players– operators, service and software providers, government

agencies, consultancies, and POSC.


Sep. '03 in HoustonSep. '03 in Houston


April '04 in CalgaryApril '04 in Calgary


Nov. '04 in ParisNov. '04 in Paris



May 10-12 Meetings• Technical Teams

– Address feedback and deferred issues• Use Case and Requirements Team

– Address possible future areas of focus: drilling reports, completions, environmental, well services, well stimulation, service rig reporting.

• Implementation Support Team– First meeting. Intended for those supporting WITSML-enabled

environments to share lessons learned and current issues and challenges.

• Public Seminar– Current reports from actual experiences and plans from oil

companies, service companies, and software companies. – Service and software vendor exhibits


May 12 Public Seminar• Meeting Host:

– ChevronTexaco, Danny Bush• Reception Hosts:

– BakerHughes, John Shields

– CyrusOne, Josh Howard

• Exhibitors:– Baker Hughes, CyrusOne, Datalog, Halliburton/Landmark, INT,

JibeNetworks, Knowledge Systems, Merrick Systems, Paradigm, POSC, SDC Geologix, Sense Intellifield, Smith Bits, Wellstorm Development


May 12 Exhibitors

• Smith Bits• Datalog• Paradigm• BakerHughes• POSC

• Knowledge Systems• INT

• Halliburton/Landmark• Merrick Systems

• CyrusOne

• Geologix • Sense • Jibe Networks • Wellstorm

• Buffet Table


Public Seminar, May 12 Agenda– Venue: Westchase Hilton Hotel Conference Center– 08:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast. Visit the Exhibits!– 09:00 Welcome and Introductions

• Host: Danny Bush, ChevronTexaco• WITSML SIG Co-Chairs

– Oil Co.: Jake Booth, ExxonMobil; Peter Nielsen, Statoil– Vendor: John Shields, BakerHughes; John Turvill, Paradigm

• POSC Facilitators: Alan Doniger and Gary Masters, POSC


Public Seminar, May 12 Agenda– 09:10 Host Presentation, Peter Breunig, Chevron– 09:30 Oil Company Presentations

• ExxonMobil, Jake Booth• BP, Matthew Kirkman• Statoil, Peter Nielsen

– 10:30 Morning Break. Visit the Exhibits!– 11:00 Service and Software Company Presentations I

• BakerHughes, John Shields• Halliburton/Landmark/Sperry, Marty Paulk and David Johnson• Schlumberger, Jim Brannigan (replacing Amr Essawi)• Questions and Answers

– 12:15 Lunch. Visit the Exhibits!


Public Seminar, May 12 Agenda

– 13:15 Service and Software Company Presentations II • Key Energy Services, Lars Crotwell• Sense Intellifield, Bill Chmela• SDC Geologix, Samit Sengupta• Knowledge Systems, William Standifird• Roxar, Eirik Gudmundsen• Questions and Answers

– 15:15 Afternoon Break. Visit the Exhibits!


Public Seminar, May 12 Agenda

– 15:45 WITSML SIG Team Reports• Technical Teams, John Shields• Use Case and Requirements Team, Matthew Kirkman• Implementation Support Team, Lars Olav Grovik and David Johnson

– 16:30 Open Discussion– 17:00 Adjourn to the Reception. Visit the Exhibits!– 19:00 Reception Ends


Houston Regional SIGs, May 13 Agenda

– Venue: Shell Woodcreak Facility– 08:30 Registration and Breakfast– 09:00 Data Store Solutions SIG Updates

• Welcome and Introduction, Alan Doniger, POSC• Global Unique Well Identifier Initiative, Scott Wookcock, Shell• Corporate Data Store, Paloma Urbano, Landmark• Coordinate Reference Systems, Paul Maton, POSC• Lithology Reference Standards, Paul Maton• WITSML Well Path Data Transfer Standards, Paul Maton• Open Dialogue: Questions and Answers

– 10:30 Morning Break



– 10:45 Practical Well Log Standards (PWLS) SIG Updates• Welcome and Introduction, Alan Doniger, POSC• PWLS Overview and Update, Alan Doniger

– Joined and Interpreted Curve Mnemonics: Pending Change Requests

• WITSML Image Calibration Data Transfer Standards, Jim Theriot, POSC

• Open Dialogue: Questions and Answers– 11:45 Lunch



– 12:45 Integration Operations (IntOPS) SIG Updates• Welcome and Introduction, David Archer, POSC• WITSML Production Distributed Temperature Survey (DTS) Data

Transfer Standards, Paul Maton• Oil Company Viewpoints

– Integrated Information Platform (IIP) Project Update– Statoil and the IIP Project– Hydro and the IIP Project– OLF and the Norwegian Operators’ Daily Production Reporting Project

– 14:00 Afternoon Break



– 14:15 Integration Operations (IntOPS) SIG Updates (Cont’d.)• Vendor Company Viewpoints

– Merrick Systems, Kemal Farid– Sense Intellifield, Bill Chmela– Roxar, John Sauri

• WITSML Production Sub-family of Data Transfer Standards, David Archer

• Open Dialogue: Questions and Answers– 16:00 Adjourn


Alan Doniger, POSC Chief Technology OfficerEmail: [email protected]

Phone: +1 713 267-5124Fax: +1 713 784-9219

http://www.posc.org and http://www.witsml.org

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