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A word
from the President & CEO
These
last 3 months have been very active, with participations in major
trade events in Houston, San Antonio, Haugesund, Paris and
Beijing, a very fruitful WITSML Drilling & Completions SIG
meeting and ETP ILAB, the welcoming of three new board members
replacing exiting incumbents, and a number of contacts with other
standards organizations in the industry.
We are
pleased to announce 3 new members: Red Hat, Tecplot and TDE, more
about their organizations below. We are looking forward to a busy
end to the year: read on to find out how we are working at making
our industry-developed standards even more effective at improving
your company's bottom line.
As this
is the last Community Headlines for 2017, I would also like to
extend on behalf of the team our best wishes for the upcoming
Holiday Season to all our readers and contributors.
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Houston, November 14-15, Jana
Schey and Jay Hollingsworth will attend this event.
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Jay Hollingsworth and Jana Schey
will attend the OilComm event to discuss the impact of ETP bandwidth
optimization.
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Houston, January 17-18 '18
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Hurry, the early bird pricing
extended to November 15th!
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The recently-released NDR Data
Quality Guidelines v1 are accessible on the DOWNLOAD STANDARDS page of our website.
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WITSML SIG Meeting October 2017
Over 50 participants representing
17 companies came together over 3 days to work on technical issues
and discuss how the standards and Energistics can best support and
assist the industry.
The Technical Team ratified ETP
Implementation Specifications for WITSML v2.0 and WITSML v1.4.1,
which are now published on the Energistics website. In addition,
work has begun for ETP v1.2 to add query functionality based on
oData and refine existing protocols for stability. The team also
had an initial discussion about how to leverage the Wireline
Formation Test Run (wftRun) object from PRODML. Certification and
compliance was another hot topic on two fronts – technical work to
develop certification of ETP with WITSML and how to help companies
assess claims of standards compliance. Watch for more on these
topics in 2018.
Meanwhile, the Business Team is
looking to the future and thinking about how the standards can
help companies meet their business objectives in a technology
environment that involves Data Lakes in the Cloud. And now that
Energistics v2 standards are on a common technical foundation that
includes the Energistics Transfer Protocol (ETP), attention is
turning to how the standards may be combined and leveraged to
support cross-operational workflows and analytics. To this end,
Energistics will pilot Communities of Practice focused on data
assurance and analytics in coming months. Participation in these
CoPs is a benefit of membership, so consider joining Energistics
in 2018 if your company isn’t already on board.
An ETP ILAB was held the same
week, companies that participated included: Baker Hughes/GE,
Geologix, INT, Kongsberg, PDS, Petrolink, and Scientific Drilling.
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Paper: "Energistics Standards
Improve Trust in
Data"
Our chief technology officer Jay
Hollingsworth presented this paper in May 2018 at the 21st annual
PNEC International Conference and Exhibition on Petroleum Data
Integration, Information, and Data Management.
What companies really need is
data they can trust, as early in their processes as possible, to
make decisions that improve operational efficiency, increase
worker safety, and lower costs.
Jay explains how the
second-generation of our domain standards (WITSML, PRODML and
RESQML) now supports data assurance policies and rules that
describe the fitness for purpose of any data being transferred.
Companies can include information such as sensor data precision,
calibration, and many other parameters. This schema enhancement
makes it possible to transfer this information between
applications that validate data according to an organization’s
data assurance policies and rules.
Ultimately, this capability helps
organizations address data assurance requirements and consequently
increases users’ trust in their data. It means that G&G and
engineering professionals no longer have to spend extra hours,
days, or weeks validating the trustworthiness of data they
receive.
Examples in the paper focus on
well-related data in WITSML v2.0, but the capabilities are
available to all of our domain standards as part of the
Energistics Common Technical Architecture, a shared technical
foundation.
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We are glad to welcome three
outstanding industry leaders to our board, replacing colleagues of
theirs who have moved on to other responsibilities:
· Bettina Bachmann, VP for Subsurface & Wells Software, Shell
· Gavin Rennick, President, Software Integrated Solutions (SIS),
Schlumberger
· Tommy Inglesby, Managing Director Upstream and OFES, Accenture
We thank Matthias Hartung
(formerly Shell), Vasu Guruswamy (formerly Schlumberger) and Tommy
Husvaeg (formerly Accenture) for their strong contributions to the
Energistics Board of Directors during their respective tenures.
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· A blog by member company HashMap
explains a new WITSML objects library SDK developed by their team to facilitate WITSML feeds
into IoT environments.
· An article by CDA's Dan Brown
"Looking back on a successful NDR 2017 conference" is
posted here.
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Energistics is glad to welcome
these new members to the consortium:
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Red Hat is the world's leading
provider of open source software solutions, using a community-powered
approach to reliable and high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware,
storage and virtualization technologies. www.redhat.com
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Tecplot specializes in visual
data analysis software that boosts productivity, integrates into
engineering workflows and cuts time in understanding computational
fluid dynamic (CFD), simulation and experimental results. www.tecplot.com
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TDE Thonhauser Data Engineering
GmbH's objective is to provide integrated drilling data management
and analysis solutions focusing on the utilization on rig
measurement data to provide an objective measure of drilling
performance. www.pronova-tde.com
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CTO Jay Hollingsworth at the CNIS
conference on standardization held in Beijing October 18 and 19,
with Prof. Hong Yan of CNIS, our Asia Pacific region lead Steve Li
Haifeng (Schlumberger) and a conference attendee.
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