Energistics Standards Adoption Examples

US Independent Oil Company

An independent oil company based in the United States had drilling and completion data coming in to
the office from the field. The completion data had to be manually entered into an Excel spreadsheet for
reporting to the headquarters office. Once the spreadsheet reaches headquarters, it then had to be reentered into the completion database. Because of all the manual effort needed to enter the data into
multiple formats multiple times, the data contained lots of inconsistencies.
To solve this problem, the operator developed a WITSML adapter for Excel. Now the completion data
comes in from the field and is reviewed in Excel. It then goes to the completion data all via WITSML.
During this process, standard reference values are applied. All of the manual data entry is eliminated.
This greatly improved the data quality and the chain of custody became very clear.
Saudi Aramco
At Saudi Aramco, multiple service and software companies are engaged in the drilling process. Each of
the service companies has its own software infrastructure and visualization tools. Because of this, there
is a lack of coherent content and no standard formats. There is no connection between the real-time
data and the static master data environments.
A WITSML-based solution was implemented. Now the data enters a WITSML store from all the vendors
on the project. While the data is being stored, common reference values are applied. The static master
data environment was also translated into a WITSML data store. Because of this, the validated static
data improved the real-time quality of the data. The integrated analysis has reduced re-work and rekeying of the data which frees up time to work on more important aspects of the job.
Pemex
Pemex had several major service and software companies as well as many smaller companies present at
their drilling sites and handling their data. Each service company had its own software infrastructure and
visualization tool. As a result, users were having to copy and paste or re-type the data from one vendors
application to another in order to bring the information together to perform analysis.
To reduce the manual effort involved, Pemex implemented a WITSML-based solution. The data now
enters a single WITSML data store from all their vendors. Common reference values were applied during
the loading process. This eliminated vendor-specific solutions which resolved the duplicated data,
improving the data quality. The manual work done to resolve the differences was eliminated.