Paradigm and WITSML
29th April 2004
John Turvill
About Paradigm
Our Solution Offering
Technical Software Solutions
and
Product-Driven Services
for exploration & production companies
and for oilfield service companies
What does Paradigm offer?
Scalable Solutions
Wellbore Placement Technology
Trace-to-Target™
Well
Planning
Geosteering
& Drilling
Well Planning,
Geosteering & Drilling
Workflow
Time to Depth
Interpretation
Visualisation
Volume Classification
Petro-Acoustic Modelling
Attribute Calculation & Analysis
Petrophysics & Rock Physics
AVO / AI / EI Inversion
Velocity Modelling & Depth Imaging
Advanced Seismic Processing
Wellbore Placement Workflows
Reservoir
Characterization
Reservoir
Placement
Covisualization
3D
Pore
pressure
Geosteering
Interactive
Well
Planning
Real-Time
Update
Well
Program
&
Drilling
Design
Drilling
Optimization
WITSML Implementation
Paradigm Key Product Brands
Data
Management
and
Interoperability
The εpos 5-layer model
What is εpos?
• Data Repositories optimized for E&P
– Designed for complex structures and large data volumes
– Can host data for a large spectrum of applications and disciplines
• A Middleware Framework
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Supporting distributed data management
Multi-vendor, multi-data model, multi-platform
Independent of repository architecture (relational, hierarchical, flat)
Simple access using a powerful Application Programming Interface
• Data Management Applications
– Administration of projects, repositories, users and groups
– Browsing tools for broad, multi-vendor networked repositories
Tight & Loose, or Loose & Tight?
Inter-Process
Communication
Application
Application
Application
Application
Application
Visualization
Canvas
Solid Earth
Modeler
Visualization
Application
Application
Application
Application
Modeling
Application
Single Database
Traditional: Tight Data, Loose Applications
Distributed
Data Management
εpos: Loose Data, Tight Applications
Keep the data where it belongs
• Locate data where it makes sense, under its own rules
– Seismic in multi-terabyte disk farms
– Engineering on Windows servers
– Databases from other vendors for certain asset teams, etc..
• Catalog the existing data repositories
– Register over the entire network all data sources
• E&P projects will point to a list of selected repositories
– Build a project by associating data from different sources.
• Distribute the management of data
– Synchronized services available on all systems storing data
– No single point of failure
Benefit: Scalable to any company size
• εpos can run on a single laptop, with a single user
– No onerous administrative overheads
• εpos can run in a complex environment
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Heterogeneous hardware platforms
Great diversity of data in different data stores
Connected to third-party repositories
Complex user authorization patters including specialists, etc…
Administrators can have overview the available services
• Mobile systems included
– Disconnection and re-connection of mobile systems
– Automatic synchronization with the other εpos servers
Paradigm Architecture
Where does WITSML fit?
3rd
Party
WITSML
Sysdrill
pos
WITSML
Link
3rd party
applications
3rd Party
WITSML
Paradigm pos
Applications
Geolog
IDEAS Well
Data Server
OW Well
Data Server
GF Well
Data Server
3rd party Well
Data Server
Geolog Well
Data Server
IDEAS
RDBMS
OpenWorks
GeoFrame
3rd party
DB
Geolog
RDBMS
ORACLE
ORACLE
Geosteering Solution
General Workflow
WITSML
Service Company LWD data
Real-time log data
Horizons
curtain
Faults MD
VoxelGeo
Service Company MWD data
Real-time survey data
Planned wellpath
Projected wellpath
Well Data
Server
Control Points @
Horizons
Inter-horizons
Faults
Real-time log display
Interactive editing of
Horizons & Faults
TST & Forward modeling
Geolog Geosteer
DirectorGeo
Borehole uncertainties
Offset Well
Horizon crosscross-section
LWD GR
Modeled GR
Wellbore Placement Workflows
Reservoir
Characterization
Reservoir
Placement
Covisualization
3D
Pore
pressure
Geosteering
Interactive
Well
Planning
Real-Time
Update
Well
Program
&
Drilling
Design
Drilling
Optimization
3D Visualization
Synthetics Generation and Tie
Synthetics to seismic tie. Variable Density display.
Paradigm WITSML status
• Current Product – pos WITSML link
– WITSML Receiver
– WITSML 1.1 and 1.2
– Supports multiple simultaneous subscriptions & datastores
– Cross-platform implementation
– Tested against multiple vendor servers with
WITSML versions 1.1 and 1.2
Wells/wellbores, Trajectories, Logs and Realtime Objects
Mudlog under construction…
• Committed to full support of WITSML
• Comments
– Standards, dialects and communication…..