Purpose

The Drilling and Completions industry needs public domain standards to facilitate the free flow of technical data across networks between oil companies, service companies, drilling contractors, application vendors and regulatory agencies. The WITSML ( Wellsite Information Transfer Standard Markup Language) initiative was started to address this need, and through its success, is now influencing petroleum industry data standards beyond the original scope.

Standards used

WITSML is based on the internet standards (W3C, SOAP, WSDL, and XML), with its own Applications Program Interface (API) and agreed D & C domain specific XML schema definitions. The project was started by a small group of operators and service companies, but is now open to all to contribute to its development through custodianship of the Special Interest Group (SIG) by POSC, and the standard is in the public domain for anyone in the drilling and completions data community to implement free of any licencing charges.

The “right time” seamless flow of drilling and completions data between data producers and data consumers to speed and enhance decision-making in the drilling and completions domain.

Versions

WITSML Version 1.2 was released in Q1 of 2003. It is the current stable version. Version 1.3.0 was released in Q1 of 2005 as the current active version. This has been superseded by Version 1.3.1, release in December 2005.

WITS and WITSML

WITS (Wellsite Information Transfer Specification) was a pre cursor of WITSML (easier and more friendly than WITS) based on serial data exchange on a “Point to Point” basis.

WITSML production: distributed temperature survey

This is an initiative of the POSC Integrated Operations (Production) Special Interest Group addressing data transfer standards for Distributed Temperature Surveys (Fibre Optic Temperature Sensors). BP initiatied this effort in 2004 and subsequently supported its facilitation by POSC as an Integrated Operations SIG (project) work group.

A WITSML compatible solution was developed, reviewed, and incorporated into the WITSML 1.3.1 release in December 2005.

DigiSites Software Ltd. offers the streaming of WITS/WITSML, WITSML Aggregator, WITSML Server, LogView, 3D TrajectoryView and WITSML Subscriber in real-time. Oil and gas companies throughout the world can rely on our technology to make better-informed decisions and to be better-focused oil and gas companies.

You can access to your workstation remotely from anywhere at any time. However, by only using user name and password through the internet raised more and more security concerns. That is what the demands for two factor access are increasing.

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Factor number one, things you know, such as username and password;

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The Technology Partnership Program enables members to develop, promote, and sell their products in conjunction with DigiSites’ WITSML systems.

This partnership program is designed specifically for Oil and Gas services companies and supplies companies looking to integrate well site data standardization and delivery software into their existing products and services. We continue to strive at building a strong, global channel network.

Partner Contact
To learn more about your Partner opportunities, please contact:
Frank Wen, Director

Phone: 1-403-8894667
Email: info@digisites.ca