WITSML is a standard for transmitting technical data between organisations in the petroleum industry.
The drilling, completions, and interventions functions of the upstream oil and natural gas industry need universally available 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 initiative was started to address this need, and through its success, is now influencing petroleum industry data standards beyond the original scope.
The WITSML Standards define more than 20 industry domain specific XML data object schemas to support drilling, completions, and intervention business functions.
PDS Releases Open Source WITSML Technologies to Improve Drilling Workflows and Data Exchange, November 2016 https://witsml.pds.technology/blog/press-release/ http://www.energistics.org/news/pds-releases-open-source-witsmltm-technologies-to-improve-drilling-workflows-and-data-exchange