Long time sparring partners Energistics (formerly POSC) and the Public Petroleum Data Model Association (PPDM) have made-up with the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) covering reciprocal memberships and ‘areas of cooperation.’ The organizations plan to develop connectors for ‘seamless data transfer’ between Energistics’ ProdML production data exchange and PPDM’s E&P Data Model.
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The ISA100 standards committee on wireless systems for automation has created a new subcommittee to address options for convergence of the ISA100.11a and WirelessHART standards. The subcommittee’s goal is to merge the best of both standards into a single converged subsequent release of the ISA standard. ISA100 committee co-chair, Pat Schweitzer of ExxonMobil, said, ‘This new subcommittee is the next logical step in helping industry achieve the significant benefits of wireless technology.’ The ISA has also set up a Wireless Compliance Institute to develop compliance programs for ISA100 standards. Institute members include Shell, Chevron, Honeywell, Invensys and Yokogawa.
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Speaking at the Energistics public meet in Houston last month, Lars Olav Grøvik lent support to Energistics’ WITSML standard for rigsite data exchange. Statoil’s experience in Norway shows that WITSML has solved many of the problems with the old binary WITS standard. WITSML is a great asset for real time drilling and i-field initiatives. StatoilHydro is now ‘100% WITSML’ and the protocol is considered ‘vital for the i-field.’ Where the idea is to ‘get the best of automation and human quality control.’ Shell’s Omar Awan offered an equally enthusiastic if slightly less bullish account of WITSML uptake in Shell. WITSML is used today and is delivering value, but not yet for all wells nor for all data flows. There remain untapped opportunities for use in real time validation and model optimization and automated reporting. Shell’s global standard architecture requires WITSML enabled/certified software solutions. Stricter compliance is required to improve uniformity of WITSML implementation in solutions before they displace legacy WITS in Shell.
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The PIDX Classification Workgroup has released version 5.0 of its Product Classification Templates. The template count now stands at nearly 4000 thanks to some major corporations who converted their entire Material Master to the PIDX classification. The PIDX review and approval process has streamlined down from 180 days to 21 days.
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The Open Geospatial Consortium and the Workflow Management Coalition have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in advancing standards-based, interoperable work flow and web-enabled geospatial content sharing, modeling and visualization.
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The Pipeline Open Standards Association’s (PODS) workgroup has approved the joint PODS/NACE External Corrosion Direct Assessment (ECDA) integrity data exchange standard. The standard is a data interchange database structure for standardized integration and reporting of ECDA data within the pipeline industry. There currently are no standards for submission and management of ECDA data. Meanwhile the PODS community is wrestling with the proposed future transition to GUIDs and the likely impact on database performance.
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