The Drillbotics® committee had a booth at the 2022 SPE/IADC Drilling Conference in Galveston. They highlighted the two winning teams from 2021 and the Platinum Sponsors for 2021-2022. They also had a display at the DSATS Symposium the day before the conference.
On Thursday, the paper from Group A by the University of Stavanger was presented: SPE-208774-MS “Autonomous Directional Drilling Using the RSS Simulator for the Drillbotics 2020-2021 Virtual Competition.” It is now available in OnePetro.
The Group B winner from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) will present SPE-209537 – Autonomous Directional Drilling With a Miniature-Scale Research Rig at the SPE Norway Subsurface Conference on 27 April 2022 Bergen Norway. They also submitted a paper to OMAE 2022 in Hamburg, Germany 5 June 2022 where they will present Paper 2022-80314 : “Design and Demonstration of Autonomous Directional Drilling With a Miniature Scale Rig.”
Thank you to our Platinum Sponsors: DSATS, Halliburton, ISCWSA, and Nabors.
The Drilling Systems Automaton Technical Section of SPE has sponsored Drillbotics since it inception in 2014-2015
The Industry Steering Committee on Wellbore Survey Accuracy (ISCWSA) produces, maintains, and publishes standards for the industry, promoting a collaborative understanding of issues associated with wellbore surveying. They also formed the Wellbore Positioning Technical Section (WPTS) of SPE.
Halliburton has hosted the North American Drillbotics Phase II tests since 2020.
Nabors is proud to sponsor the Drillbotics competition for the second time. Its subsidiary Canrig was a Bronze sponsor in 2018. Nabors is a leading provider of advanced technology for the energy industry. With operations in more than 15 countries, Nabors has established a global network of people, technology and equipment to deploy solutions that deliver safe, efficient and responsible energy production. Nabors is leading the way in land drilling automation through deployment of advanced process automation and the world’s first fully-automated land rig.
