The Wellsite Information Transfer Specification (WITS) is a specification for the transfer of
drilling rig
A drilling rig is an integrated system that Drilling, drills wells, such as oil or water wells, or holes for piling and other construction purposes, into the earth's subsurface. Drilling rigs can be massive structures housing equipment used to ...
-related data. This
petroleum industry
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standard is recognized by a number of companies internationally and is supported by many
hardware devices and
software
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WITS is a multi-layered specification:
* Layer 0 describes an ASCII-based transfer specification
* Layer 1 describes a binary-based format based on 25 predefined fixed-size records and the
Log Information Standard (LIS) data-transmission specification
* Layer 2 describes bidirectional communication using LIS Comment records
* Layer 2b describes buffering of data
* Layer 4 extends the previous layers to use a different data exchange format
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Though still in active use as of 2013, the specification has been superseded by the XML-base
WITSML
See also
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Wellsite information transfer standard markup language {{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 ...
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Drilling technology
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