The ETP DevKit provides a common foundation and basic infrastructure to simplify and standardize creating applications that transfer WITSML, PRODML and RESQML data via the Energistics Transfer Protocol.

Start using the new ETP DevKit v1.2

The ETP DevKit v1.2 and is available at the Energistics Bitbucket repository.

The ETP DevKit was developed by PDS and contributed to Energistics. Further development will be guided by Energistics and the user community.

To learn more about the PDS Group/PDS Americas/Petrotechnical Data Systems, be sure to visit our website: https://pds.group

A video of the online walkthrough. Eric Griffith walks us through the use of the DevKit for ETP, updated for version v1.2 RC2

January 11, 2021 ETP DevKit Walkthrough from Energistics Marketing on Vimeo.

For more information on:

• Energistics, ETP and the WITSML standards, visit Energistics
• PDS WITSMLstudio products, visit us at PDS Group WITSMLstudio

Check out the new video for StoreSync where we demonstrate the data transfer capabilities of our latest product.

StoreSync is able to move data between the following resources:

• WITSML Stores
  • 1.3.1 and 1.4.1
• Historians
• Files on disk
• Databases
  • Relational and NoSQL
• 3rd Party APIs

For more information visit us at PDS Group WITSMLstudio

PDS will be exhibiting at the 2018 IADC/SPE Drilling Conference from March 6th through the 8th. We'll also be attending the DSATS Networking event on Monday, March 7th in case anyone is arriving early.

During the conference, we will be showcasing PDS WITSMLstudio™ technologies and demonstrating how they can be used to help companies take control of their data. This includes the open source Store and Desktop applications as well as our new StoreSync data synchronization tool and StoreLink add-in for Excel.

Here is a preview of the flyer we will be handing out during the show:

See you there!

Starting February 26th you can find us at the Energistics® ETP iLab and WITSML™ SIG Meeting where we will be listening to hear how companies are adopting ETP and WITSML™. The focus for the past year has been on ETP certification and the adoption of WITSML™ 2.0. The development team at PDS has been actively participating in certification discussions and working to help implement the certification framework and test cases.

ETP 1.2

PDS is one of the leading contributors to the next release of ETP, version 1.2. We've been working with the Energistics® Architecure and WITSML Technical teams to design additional functionality required and requested by the WITSML™, RESQML™ and PRODML™ communities. The most significant enhancement in ETP 1.2 is the addition of OData-style query support for most protocols. PDS WITSMLstudio Store is the first to implement this functionality and helped facilitate discussions during its development.

If you happen to be at the WITSML™ SIG Meeting, stop by and say hello or grab us in the hall for a more in-depth conversation. Looking forward to seeing everyone there!

Apart from continuing to invest in our open source technology, we've also been developing commercial products to help those in the Oil & Gas industry work with and take control of their WITSML™ data. We also continue to be heavily involved with Energistics® to help in the evolution and adoption of the WITSML™ and ETP standards.

To help showcase all of the products and services PDS has to offer, we've launched a new PDS Group website. For more information about our new WITSML™ related products, be sure to visit the WITSMLstudio section!

Release Notes

WITSML Server

• Updated ETP NuGet package to v1.5.0 for ETP v1.1 release
• Updated to latest version of ETP DevKit
• Updated support for WITSML 2.0 data objects
  • Added new data object - Rig Utilization
• Optimized Channel Streaming Producer and Consumer providers
• Minor bug fixes

WITSML Studio

• Updated ETP NuGet package to v1.5.0 for ETP v1.1 release
• Updated to latest version of ETP DevKit
• Updated support for WITSML 2.0 data objects
• Added "Refresh Selected" context menu options
  • WITSML Browser > Hierarchy tab
  • ETP Browser > Discovery tab
• Added "Pretty Print" context menu option for all XML text editors
• Added "Data Object" tab in ETP Browser to display WITSML data objects
• Minor bug fixes

To learn more about PDS Open Source WITSML Technology, be sure to read the Getting Started guide or browse the Documentation.

PDS WITSML Server and PDS WITSML Studio help companies rapidly test and deploy WITSML-enabled solutions.

Houston – 9 November 2016

Petrotechnical Data Systems (PDS), a leading provider of petrotechnical software solutions to the oil and gas industry, announced today the availability of its new open source technology for Energistics’ Wellsite Information Transfer Standard Markup Language (WITSML): PDS WITSML Server and PDS WITSML Studio, an intuitive WITSML client query tool. The technology is released under the permissive Apache License.

PDS’s open source WITSML server aims to facilitate faster adoption of the latest standards from Energistics by addressing a critical gap in the availability of test environments for WITSML-based software development. The new server provides a dedicated resource for companies to test their WITSML client applications with the most common objects in current and upcoming versions of the standards. It also provides data access through the next generation Energistics Transfer Protocol (ETP), and it is the industry’s first publicly available server to support the upcoming 2.0 version of the standard.

According to Olivier Lehmann, President of INT, Inc., “The PDS tools for WITSML have allowed us to test our real-time HTML5 visualization platform and GeoToolkit components for 2D/3D data visualization built on WITSML data sources. Accessible WITSML technology, such as that provided by PDS, shortens our development cycle and improves the quality of our WITSML-enabled functionality.”

In addition to the WITSML server, PDS also released PDS WITSML Studio, a client diagnostic and support tool. The ability to inspect and manipulate data in a WITSML server is crucial for developing and supporting WITSML-capable applications. WITSML Studio lets users inspect and manipulate data in any WITSML server. Like the PDS WITSML Server, WITSML Studio supports the current versions of WITSML, the upcoming 2.0 version, and ETP.

“The availability of open source, publicly-available WITSML technology has been a long-held ambition of the WITSML Community, and we are delighted that PDS is empowering the community to adopt the new standards faster than ever before,” said Ross Philo, President and CEO of Energistics, curators of the WITSML standards.

The introduction of these new technologies, along with the ETP DevKit PDS recently contributed to Energistics, will immediately simplify implementation for companies interested in developing WITSML-enabled solutions. In the longer term, open source technologies like these can serve to accelerate marketplace diversity and innovation as well as drive down cost for those developing and maintaining these solutions.

“For years, slow adoption of new versions of the WITSML standard have prevented the industry from taking full advantage of the improvements in transfer efficiency, data quality, and data management that these new standards offer. We are delighted to contribute these innovative open source technologies, and firmly believe that they will serve as a catalyst for standards’ adoption, and expedite the development of the next generation of high-value software solutions needed by the drilling community,” said Steve Daum, Managing Director of the PDS Group.

More information about the Open Source WITSML Technology can be found at https://witsml.pds.technology. Both the PDS WITSML Server and WITSML Studio are immediately available for download as open source code at https://github.com/pds-technology.

About – Energistics and WITSML

Energistics is a global, non-profit consortium established 25 years ago to bring together upstream oil and natural gas industry professionals in a neutral and collaborative environment to develop and deploy open data exchange standards and to address oil and gas information sharing challenges. Our members consist of integrated, independent and national oil companies, oilfield service companies, hardware and software vendors, system integrators, regulatory agencies and the global standards user community.

For more information, visit www.energistics.org.

About – INT

Interactive Network Technologies, Inc (INT) specializes in efficient solutions for data display: providing expandable visualization applications, software development libraries, and custom software services. Utilizing the latest software technologies, products include GeoToolkit graphics libraries for programmers in Java, .NET, and HTML5 environments, INTViewer platform for seismic analysis and QC, plus HTML5 web-based viewers for seismic, logs, and drilling data.

Find out more at http://www.int.com

About – PDS Group

Petrotechnical Data Systems is a leading provider of petrotechnical software solutions to the petroleum industry. PDS is a long-time member and active participant in energy industry standardization efforts. For over twenty years, PDS has delivered innovative software technologies, R&D and consulting services to the petroleum industry from technology centers in The Hague, Houston, London, Sofia and Muscat.

Find out more at http://www.pds.world

After updating to the latest release of WITSML Studio, users will be presented with the following dialog when they choose to add a new connection or edit an existing connection:

ETP with Basic Authentication (Legacy)

ETP with JSON Web Token (JWT)

Token Provider Interface

Clicking the [...] button next to the Bearer authentication option will open another connection dialog that can be used to retrieve a JSON Web Token from a Token Provider Service if one is available that accepts a username and password using Basic authentication.

This latest release also includes various bug fixes and performance improvements.

• Connections are now persisted to the user's %LocalAppData% folder so they survive application updates and uninstall / reinstall
• Window size and position are cached when the application is shutdown
• Minor bug fixes

More information about PDS WITSML Studio can be found in the User Guide and overall PDS WITSML Documentation.

Enjoy!

The application is provided as an open source project under the Apache License, Version 2.0. PDS WITSML Studio can be installed today via ClickOnce deployment with the complete source code being made available in the very near future.

This version ships with two plug-ins enabled by default, with more to come later. More detailed information can be found in the User Guide.

WITSML Browser

The WITSML Browser plug-in enables the user to connect to and query any compliant WITSML server supporting versions 1.4.1 or 1.3.1 of the WITSML Store API.

Connection and Query Options

Data Object Hierarchy

ETP Browser

The ETP Browser plug-in provides the ability to connect to ETP servers or data producers supporting version 1.1 of the ETP Specification.

Connect and Request Session

Discovery Protocol

PDS WITSML Studio takes advantage of other popular open source libraries available from Energistics for the Oil & Gas community:

• ETP DevKit - developed and contributed by PDS
• Energistics Standards DevKit