ADNOC has deployed its AI-enabled Real-Time Operations Center (RTOC) across its fleet of more than 120 onshore and offshore drilling rigs, enabled by SLB’s DrillOps intelligent well delivery and insights solutions.
The installation continuously collects live drilling data to generate a unified, real-time environment that drives coordination within ADNOC teams, identifying risks ahead of time for prompt decision-making.
The RTOC is completely reliable in securing critical operational data and workflows as it is an in-country set up, built and developed in the United Arab Emirates and hosted within ADNOC’s sovereign cloud environment. With maximum confidentiality secured, the platform gives business, asset and drilling teams greater visibility across the fleet, advancing operational efficiency and long-term digital independence for ADNOC.
“DrillOps transforms real-time drilling data into operational intelligence that helps teams make faster, more informed decisions,” said Rakesh Jaggi, President-Digital, SLB. “Deployed within ADNOC’s sovereign cloud environment, the technology provides the scalable digital foundation for AI-enabled workflows across one of the industry’s largest rig fleets and supports the continued progression toward more autonomous operations.”
ADNOC has reported around 30-40% reduction in engineering efforts ever since the deployment. Engineers can now support two to three times more rigs while maintaining effective oversight. Day-long analyses are now a matter of few minutes, and reporting cycles that once took several days can be completed within hours. This revolution is driven by RTOC's combination of operational data, automated dashboards, advanced analytics and AI-driven insights that converts humungous quantities of drilling data into clear, actionable information. Thus empowered, engineers can wholeheartedly invest their energy on execution while maintaining visibility across a large and complex rig fleet. ADNOC said the platform can also identify potential operational issues before they escalate, reduce incident response times by 4 to 12 hours and help avoid one to two days of rig downtime.
The deployment advances ADNOC’s broader effort to apply AI at scale across its operations while demonstrating how SLB digital technology can help operators move from fragmented data and manual analysis toward more connected and intelligent drilling operations. By embedding AI-enabled insights directly into operational workflows, the platform supports improved performance, reduced operational risk and greater efficiency across upstream operations.
