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TECH FILES OTC SPOTLIGHT ON NEW TECHNOLOGY

Saipem, producer of Hydrone-R Drone Schlumberger, producer of DrillPlan

Hydrone–R is an Underwater Intervention Drone (UID), coherent well construction planning solution capable of performing both inspection and intervention mis-

Schlumberger’s DrillPlan coherent well construction plan- sions and conceived to offer Life-of-Field Services focused on ning solution is a cloud-based application that accelerates the guaranteeing safety and productivity of Offshore Energy felds delivery of an effcient and optimal drilling program. The so- while minimizing operational costs. It is also the frst-ever lution provides a digital collaborative space that enables the modular subsea resident intervention platform, integrated discovery and consumption of offset knowledge and cross- within the subsea feld for dives up to 12 months.

domain engineering workfows in one place.

In 2019, Hydrone-R was chosen by Equinor to be the frst

Data is liberated from siloed repositories to enrich the con-

UID commercially deployed in the Njord Field Develop- text of data-driven insights to achieve continuous improve- ment, offshore Norway, understood to be the frst ever world- ment. Automated design and validation workfows accelerate wide service contract for subsea resident drones signed in the the delivery of an effcient and optimal drilling program with

Offshore Energy Industry. The innovative value resides in: a few clicks. The solution can also be connected to vendor • vessel-free IMR, neutral databases or applications, using application program • larger and more frequent data from the feld, interfaces (APIs) and open-source code, to create bespoke so- • faster on-site intervention in case of any anomaly, lutions that help operators achieve greater levels of fexibility, • more than 90% of CO2 emission reduction compared automation, innovation and high-powered computation. to conv entional ROV IMR services,

Since 2019, the DrillPlan solution has helped operators, in- • new feld design criteria and architectures are unlocked cluding several NOCs and IOCs, plan more than 7,000 wells.

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