A cross-industry group working on solutions to improve connectivity and data exchange between the key equipment and systems deployed during well construction – regardless of the provider.
Enhancing Connectivity for Systems Automation
D-WIS is a group of industry professionals interested in data interoperability to enable the exchange of data and the facilitation of drilling automation at the rig site and beyond. To achieve this with the minimum amount of time and effort, we encourage all parties to use standard interfaces. Working groups meet weekly to develop standard tools to connect and communicate between the rig owner, the operator, service companies and other qualified users. This website serves as a repository for the work product from these groups. You can follow the latest developments via our posts, uncover the most important publications to date, and access the recommended standards as they are released. If you are interested, you can join this effort via one or more workstreams or just monitor the big picture via our newsletters.
Latest D-WIS News
Demonstrating DWIS on a full-scale Test Rig
Demonstrating Interoperability at Ullrigg Advances in drilling automation depend not only on smarter algorithms but also on the ability of systems from different vendors to communicate and operate together seamlessly. A recent demonstration at the Ullrigg Test Facility showed how the Drilling and Wells Interoperability Standard (DWIS) can serve as the foundation for this new
D-WIS Releases v1 (draft) of the Contextual Data Best Practice
D-WIS has released version 1 of its contextual data for drilling systems automation. The release covers the equipment data catalog, physical quantities, rig action plan, drilling activities, drilling states and more. It can be viewed or downloaded from the documents tab in the top menu bar.
Drillbotics Teams Use D-WIS Semantics and Learn About Industry Methods
The 2026 Drillbotics teams use the D-WIS semantics tools to interface with Norce’s models. This provides them with a hands-on understanding of the industry’s methods to implement drilling automation. There are also a recent articles that emphasizes the student challenges and their successful means of creating new designs. This SPE article provides an in-depth view of
DWIS Github: Navigation
A new navigation page has been added to the D-WIS GitHub organization: https://github.com/D-WIS. Also, many of the Readme documents in the individual repos have been updated to reflect the current content of each repos. Please note that some repositories are publicly accessible while others remain private. Our goal is to make most repositories public once
Paper SPE-230721-MS “Demonstration of the Drilling and Wells Interoperability Standard Framework in a Multi-Company Context” to be presented at the next SPE/IADC Drilling Conference in Galveston
The paper SPE-230721-MS, “Demonstration of the Drilling and Wells Interoperability Standard Framework in a Multi-Company Context,” has now been submitted through the SPE Portal. It will be presented at the upcoming SPE/IADC Drilling Conference in Galveston in March 2026. DWIS would like to thank the authors of the paper: E. Cayeux, B. Daireaux, E. Dvergsnes,
Latest news from the D-WIS Workstreams
Reference Architecture
Initial SDKs for connecting to the DWIS Blackboard
The initial .NET Software Development Kit (SDK) for accessing the DWIS Blackboard has been stable and in use for several
Public access to the code of the Advice Composer
The Advice Composer code repository has been made public now that the software has reached a relatively stable state.
ADCS Software Interface
Weekly Blog Updates
Starting this week, we will send you an email summarizing the blog posts by the various workstreams. It will go
Use Case Demo Scheduled for 19 September
This is a meeting invitation for the D-WIS Demonstration connecting various D-WIS workstream efforts to the Norce drilling simulator. It
Semantics of Realtime Drilling Signals
An Example Service to Calculate Downhole ECD from Downhole Annulus Pressure Measurements
A service has been developed to calculate downhole ECD from downhole annulus pressure measurements. The calculation reports the reference TVD
An Example Service to Automatically Tare Downhole and Surface WOB
An example service has been developed that uses both downhole and topside measurements to automatically tare downhole and surface weight
Use Case Coordination & Demos
Paper SPE-230721-MS “Demonstration of the Drilling and Wells Interoperability Standard Framework in a Multi-Company Context” to be presented at the next SPE/IADC Drilling Conference in Galveston
The paper SPE-230721-MS, “Demonstration of the Drilling and Wells Interoperability Standard Framework in a Multi-Company Context,” has now been submitted
DWIS Demonstration #3: Dec 12, 2025
This DWIS demonstration will make use of NOVOS in NORCE’s HIL OpenLab Drilling Simulator. The purpose of the demonstration is
Drilling Process Protection
Presentation of paper SPE-223716-MS “Code Generation of Automatic Drilling Control System Functions with Embedded Verification and Validation Functionalities” at the SPE/IADC Drilling Conference
The paper SPE-223716-MS “Code Generation of Automatic Drilling Control System Functions with Embedded Verification and Validation Functionalities” will
Presentation of paper SPE-223782-MS “Automatic Online Classification of Drilling Activities” at the SPE/IADC Drilling Conference
The paper SPE-223782-MS “Automatic Online Classification of Drilling Activities” will be presented at the coming SPE/IADC Drilling Conference
Contextual Data
D-WIS Releases v1 (draft) of the Contextual Data Best Practice
D-WIS has released version 1 of its contextual data for drilling systems automation. The release covers the equipment data catalog,
An Example Service to Calculate Downhole ECD from Downhole Annulus Pressure Measurements
A service has been developed to calculate downhole ECD from downhole annulus pressure measurements. The calculation reports the reference TVD