WITSML SIG

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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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WITSML SIG Participants

• Operators
• Statoil
• BP
• Shell
• ExxonMobil
• ChevronTexaco
• Pioneer Nat. Res.
• Hydro
• ONGC
• Total
• Regulators
• UK DTI
• US DOI

Service/Software Suppliers Baker Hughes
Landmark/Halliburton/Sperry Schlumberger NPSi Sen
se Technology SDC Geologix Petrolink INT Paradigm
UPEG

• Service/Software Suppliers
• Pason
• Weatherford
• OpenSpirit
• HRH Geological Services
• Smith Technologies
• IFP
• Interaction
• US Synthetic
• Knowledge Systems
• AspenTech

POSC special interest groups are open to all
interested parties.Recent New SIG members
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Data Objects Original, New, Updated, Draft

• Bottom Hole Assembly Run
• Cement Job
• Conventional Core
• Fluids Report
• Formation Marker
• Log (updated)
• Message
• Mud Log (updated)
• Operations Report
• Real Time (updated)
• Rig / Rig Equipment
• Server Capabilities
• Sidewall Core

Subscription Survey Program Target Trajectory
Trajectory Station (updated) Tubular / Bit Record
/ Open Hole Well Wellbore (update) Wellbore
Geometry Risk (new) Event Notification
(new) Completion / Well Mechanical
(draft) Regulatory Permitting and Reporting
(draft)
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WITSML SIG

• History
• 1980s WITS real-time binary formats defined
• 1990s as Internet and related technologies
  became available, new solutions emerged but
  separately
• Statoil developed Drilling Automation Real Time
  (DART)
• 2001 DART evolved into the multi-company WITSML
  effort by BP and Statoil with BakerHughes,
  Halliburton, and Schlumberger
• 2002
• Version 1.1 completed
• Public Seminar and SIG Meetings in Stavanger

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WITSML SIG

• History
• 2003
• Version 1.2 completed
• WITSML transfer for custody and evolution to POSC
• Public seminar and SIG meetings in Aberdeen and
  Houston
• 2004
• Version 1.3 completed
• POSC announced extension of the WITSML
  architecture to support all POSC data exchange
  standards.
• Public seminar and SIG meetings in Calgary and
  Paris
• Regional SIG meetings in Stavanger and Houston

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WITSML SIG

• SIG Organization
• Steering Committee
• Technical Teams
• Drilling data transfer content
• Overall architecture / infrastructure
• Use Case and Requirements Team
• Future planning and requirements determination
• Implementation Support Team
• New group forming in 05

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POSC Standards SIGs
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WITSML SIG

• Whats Next?
• Promote use
• Continued support and evolution
• Create new Implementation Support group
• Expand non-Drilling use
• Completions
• Production Operations
• Fluid Properties

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Alan DonigerPOSC Chief Technology Officer24
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