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EQUINOR & SLB

Ricardo Santos - Equinor ASA micro-KPIs and real-time alerts. the system to seamlessly drill the section.

Located 120 kilometers northwest of Abu Dhabi, the dig- On the rig foor, manual pipe handling and equipment ital solutions implemented onsite at SARB allow the feld to sequencing tasks were automated with DrillPilot software.

be operated remotely from Zirku island, 20 km away. On-bottom drilling performance was maximized using

Remote monitoring, smart well operations and produc- AI-driven technology in the DrillOps automation solution. tion management technologies are integrated at the remote Neuro autonomous solutions determined the optimum control center for optimized real-time decision-making. trajectory and delivered the well plan, adjusting steering

This has enabled the accelerated growth in feld capac- sequences and drilling parameters to reach the target as ity with reduced costs and emissions. The feld’s digitaliza- designed by the DrillPlan coherent well construction plan- tion will enable the deployment of additional AI solutions ning solution.

to further enhance and optimize operations, according to The DrillOps and DrillPlan solutions are SLB’s cloud-

ADNOC. based applications on the Delf digital platform. The platform combines apps, artifcial intelligence (AI), phys- ics-based science and free-fowing data to accelerate and

Equinor, SLB:

Autonomous Drilling Reaches New Depths improve exploration, development, drilling, production,

A major step towards fully autonomous drilling opera- and new energy operations.

tions has been achieved as Equinor and SLB set the re- With more than 30 engineering algorithms working si- cord for the most autonomous well section drilled to-date multaneously in the cloud and enabling a collaborative envi- offshore Brazil, leveraging SLB’s digital technologies for ronment, the DrillPlan well construction planning produced surface automation, autonomous on-bottom drilling, and drilling program, automatically calculating hydraulics, cas- directional drilling. ing design, torque and drag, well integrity and more.

The combination of SLB’s technologies enabled 99% of The autonomous drilling milestone was achieved at a 2.6-kilometer section to be drilled in autonomous con- Equinor's Peregrino C platform, which produced its frst trol mode. Over a fve-well program, a 60% increase in oil on October 10, 2022 as part of Peregrino phase 2.

rate of penetration was achieved, resulting in faster well Peregrino phase 2 will extend the life of the Peregrino delivery while reducing cost and carbon emissions. feld to 2040, adding 250–300 million barrels of oil, while

Multidisciplinary experts collaborated to design and im- at the same time halving expected CO2 emissions per bar- plement interconnected autonomous workfows, enabling rel over the feld remaining lifetime.

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