PRODML is a family of

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and Web Services based upstream oil and natural gas industry standards from

Energistics Energistics is a global, non-profit, consortium, industry consortium that facilitates an inclusive user community for the development, adoption and maintenance of collaborative, open standardization, standards for the energy industry in general and ...

and its PRODML Special Interest Group (PRODML SIG). PRODML Standards support automated production data acquisition, operations monitoring, optimization, reporting, and configuration management business processes. PRODML-based interactions are used by production software components, including field data historians, surveillance applications, model analysis and management applications, optimization applications, simulation applications, etc. The PRODML initiative was started in 2005 by five energy companies: BP,

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, and

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, joined by eight supplier companies:

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Invensys Invensys Limited was a multinational engineering and information technology company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. At its height, the company had offices in more than 50 countries and its products were sold in around 180 countries. I ...

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OSIsoft OSIsoft, LLC is a manufacturer of application software for real-time data management, called the PI System. Founded in 1980, OSIsoft was privately held and headquartered in San Leandro, California. In August 2020, it was announced that the UK-base ...

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Tieto Tietoevry Corporation (natively Tietoevry Oyj, Tieto prior to June 2019) is a Finnish IT software and service company providing IT and product engineering services. Tietoevry is domiciled in Espoo, Finland, and the company's shares are listed o ...

, and Weatherford as well as

. PRODML Standards evolved from the Energistics family of standards for drilling, completions and interventions,

WITSML {{Short description, Web development language WITSML is a standard for transmitting technical data between organisations in the petroleum industry. It continues to be developed by an Energistics facilitated Special Interest Group to develop XML stan ...

, initiated in 2000.

EnergyML

EnergyML Energistics is a global, non-profit, industry consortium that facilitates an inclusive user community for the development, adoption and maintenance of collaborative, open standards for the energy industry in general and specifically for oil and ...

is the foundation for consistency and interoperability among all Energistics data transfer families of standards, including besides the PRODML Standards,

for drilling, completions, and interventions and

RESQML Energistics is a global, non-profit, industry consortium that facilitates an inclusive user community for the development, adoption and maintenance of collaborative, open standards for the energy industry in general and specifically for oil and gas ...

(tm) for reservoir characterization.

External links

Energistics Web site

PRODML Standards Web site
Petroleum production Industry-specific XML-based standards Standards Open standards

EnergyML

See also

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