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Drilling

An automated robotic drilling future improved safety, and enabled more robotic drill ? oor solutions, for example.

Drilling technology has improved advanced wells, but drilling ef? ciency has

Kjørholt outlined each area in more by leaps and bounds in the past not improved much over the last 20 years.” detail: 20 years. Yet, Statoil’s drilling

Improving drilling ef? ciency could Real time well diagnostics – Kjørholt • help the industry save. Drilling, which is would like a software diagnosis tool to and well research manager says the most ef? cient measure in increasing give accurate information about down- there’s room for a revolution recovery rates, accounts for more than hole conditions. For this, improved half the development cost for offshore and extended instrumentation and data when it comes to e