Mineral exploration is often be considered to be a rudimentary process; one of hardcore geoscience, with prospectors poring over maps and collecting rock core samples using drilling technology that is ...

A successful test in the North Sea aboard a drilling platform named after a fairy tale princess promises to reduce the number of people needed on offshore rigs and shift those jobs to control centers ...

XTO Energy Inc., a subsidiary of ExxonMobil Corp., drilled a horizontal well in the Permian basin using Nabors PACE-R801 fully automated land rig. The rig is contracted to drill three horizontal wells ...

A new drilling rig put into service by the Houston company Nabors Industries recently completed its first well in the Permian Basin, drilling to a depth of nearly 20,000 feet. That might not seem like ...

Purpose: Automation in rig operations reduces human exposure, compresses well construction time, stabilizes drilling performance, and lowers fuel and maintenance costs while improving wellbore quality ...

I.I Automation scope — Rig automation integrates sensors (surface/subsurface), control systems (PLC/DCS), ML/advanced control, and robotics to execute drilling and workover sequences with minimal ...