ProdML

PRODML is an industry initiative to provide open, non-proprietary, standard interfaces between software tools used to monitor, manage and optimize hydrocarbon production.
PRODML supports data exchange between applications and data stores in the office domain (typically data historian and technical analysis applications) within the context of the three use cases listed above. The emphasis is on near-real time optimization (i.e. optimization that can be achieved by making changes in the existing production configuration that can be effected within one day). Typical attributes of associated workflows are:
• Use of data from historian data stores to drive technical applications
• Use of models to infer data that is not measurable or not measured
• Use of automated time-series data analysis and modelling, including forecasting
• Production alarm management based on targets and tied to workflow exception handling
• Integration of well work-over schedules, well tests and predicted tank volumes