WITSML™ SIG Meetings
and Public Seminar
Alan Doniger, POSC
May 10-12, 2005
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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May 12 Exhibitors
• Geologix • Sense • Jibe Networks • Wellstorm
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Smith Bits
Datalog
Paradigm
BakerHughes
POSC
• Knowledge Systems
• INT
• Halliburton/Landmark
• Merrick Systems
• CyrusOne
• Buffet Table
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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
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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
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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!
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Public Seminar, May 12 Agenda
– 13:15 Service and Software Company Presentations II
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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!
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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
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Houston Regional SIGs,
May 13 Agenda
– Venue: Shell Woodcreak Facility
– 08:30 Registration and Breakfast
– 09:00 Data Store Solutions SIG Updates
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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
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Houston Regional SIGs,
May 13 Agenda
– 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
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Houston Regional SIGs,
May 13 Agenda
– 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
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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
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Houston Regional SIGs,
May 13 Agenda
– 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
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Alan Doniger, POSC Chief Technology Officer
Email: Doniger@POSC.org
Phone: +1 713 267-5124
Fax: +1 713 784-9219
http://www.posc.org and http://www.witsml.org
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