Practical Well Log Standards Phase II Kickoff

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Practical Well Log Standards Phase II - Kickoff

• 30 January 2001
• CDA
• London, UK

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Agenda

• Introduction David Archer
• Phase I Review Dave Camden
• Practical Implementation Ingvar Espedal
• Phase II planning Dave Camden/ALL
• Going Forward David Archer/ALL
• Conclusions ALL

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Wrap-up Phase I

• Meetings in UK (30Jan2001) US (15Feb 2001)
• Wrap up note to sponsors ASAP
• Publish results on POSC/SPWLA Web Site
• Identify what needs to be done now vs. in Phase
  II
• Write/publish Press Release(s) February 2001
• Need input/quotes from participants ASAP
• Write/publish high-level descriptions of project
  with emphasis on benefits, participants and
  commitments to implement February 2001
  ongoing
• Need input from participants for content, target
  audience, speaking engagements,
• Market to players who are not currently project
  participants NOW

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Going forward

• Goals
• New participants
• New tools
• Implementation
• Improved website (Public Private/Vendor
  interfaces)
• Performance
• Ease of use
• Other e.g., Support B2B usage
• Maintenance (
• Self-maintenance (vendors )
• Other approaches

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Going forward

• Participants
• Prepare Contract for Phase II (or extend Phase I)
• Sign up current and new participants
• Organization
• Steering Team
• Technical Team
• Project Leader
• Champions!
• Implementations Implementers
• Communicating results

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Phase II Issues

• Scope
• Funding
• IP publication
• Project Resources
• Ongoing maintenance
• Relationships with other efforts/standards
• WellLogML
• WellHeadML
• Others?
• Future Phases?

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Phase II Schedule

• Project Meetings
• Organizational (30Jan 15Feb 2001)
• Steering team
• Technical team
• Publication/Communication
• Use Cases
• Technical Specifications on Web
• White papers, business focused articles, etc.
• Presentations at conferences (POSC, SPWLA, )

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WellHeadML Project(advertisement)

• What
• Generic, globally applicable well header in XML
• Standard reference entities to support the
  requirements
• Support for regionally oriented use cases
• Style sheets (XSLT) for geographic areas
• Publication and maintenance on web site
• Usage examples
• Regulatory notification and reporting
• Corporate/regional database reporting
• Well identification for drilling, etc.
• When
• Kick off in Feb2001 to run through 3Q2001