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NEW TECHNOLOGIES

NOV ADNOC increase their production and at the same lower their carbon

Shell, NOV Help Equip Stena Evolution footprint, with the most recent achievement made by Abu

Stena Drilling’s Stena drillship is set to undergo a signif- cant equipment upgrade with the systems supplied by Shell Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) which boosted the production at one of its Middle Eastern felds by 25%.

and NOV, which will make it capable of drilling and com-

The technologies that deployed at ADNOC’s SARB pleting wells requiring 20,000 psi (20K) pressure control.

The upgrade includes the installation of cutting-edge feld, which marked the signifcant rise in its production to a total of 140,000 barrels per day (bpd), include tools drilling equipment and technology aboard Stena Evolu- developed by AIQ, the Abu Dhabi-based AI champion de- tion, starting from 2026.

Stena Drilling, together with equipment supplier NOV, livering transformative solutions to the energy sector.

AIQ solutions DrillRep and OptiDrill process data from and Shell, will install the 20K Subsea blow-out preventer rigs and wells at the feld, enhancing drilling effciency and (BOP) and other key equipment aboard its state-of-the- art 7th generation drillship, which was delivered to the optimization.

By utilizing daily drilling data reports and rig sensor data, offshore drilling contractor by Samsung Heavy Industries

AIQ’s technology supports drilling operations with the nec- after a decade in the making, essary insights and actions to optimize the drilling process.

A BOP is a large, high-pressure safety valve used to pre-

DrillRep is a web-based application that automatically vent the uncontrolled fow of liquids and gases during well drilling operations. Pressure control is a critical part of the analyzes the written description of drilling activities, and drilling process, and, as a fail-safe component, a blowout suggests code and sub-code allocations, based on analysis of accurate historical DDR data, which drives greater op- preventer is essential to the safety of the rig.

When the new 20K equipment package is installed, the erational effciencies.

OptiDrill on the other hand is designed to validate key

Stena Evolution will be able to perform completion opera- tions in the Sparta feld on behalf of Shell in the U.S. Gulf data against proven quality-control processes, using pow- of Mexico, enabling the drilling in previously inaccessible erful data integration and management tools to analyze the data from an entire drilling operation.

reservoirs for Stena Drilling’s clients.

Requiring just one-time confguration to stream data from surface sensors to monitor drilling processes, OptiD-

AI Boosts Ofshore Oil Field Production rill reduces the gap between how actual procedures occur

The implementation of Artifcial Intelligence (AI)-en- abled digital operations at offshore oil felds can signifcantly as compared to best practices in the given activity using 54 OFFSHORE ENGINEER OEDIGITAL.COM