NOV and Schlumberger announce collaboration to accelerate adoption of automated drilling solutions

“Through this collaboration, NOV demonstrates its commitment to deliver an open digital automation platform that enables drilling contractors to achieve higher consistency, safety, and efficiency with improved wellbore quality,” said Clay Williams, Chairman, President and CEO, NOV. “We continue to invest in digital solutions that provide value for our customers. Drilling automation allows rig crews to focus on the big picture to drive performance by allowing the automated systems to run the manual, repetitive tasks."

“We are pleased to collaborate with NOV and to integrate their rig automation interface with our drilling automation solutions to unlock higher performance for operators and drilling contractors. Leveraging downhole and surface automation applications, we can deliver enhancements in operations safety and efficiency, and deliver top-quartile wells for our customers consistently,” commented Olivier Le Peuch, CEO, Schlumberger. “This partnership helps accelerate customers’ adoption of drilling automation technologies, enabling superior well construction performance.”

The collaboration relies on NOV’s NOVOS™ process automation platform, which controls and operates all NOV rig equipment available and within operational purview, along with advanced artificial intelligence from Schlumberger’s DrillOps on-target well delivery solution. The two systems work together to enforce procedures consistently and to attain the best possible operational performance.

The NOVOS platform automates repetitive drilling activities, resulting in repeatable processes and optimizing drilling programs.

The DrillOps family of solutions consists of modular technologies that execute drilling plans and automate tasks to achieve higher levels of efficiency.