{"id":"adnoc-slb-ai-platform-over-120-drilling-rigs-2026","canonicalSlug":"adnoc-slb-ai-platform-over-120-drilling-rigs-2026","url":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/adnoc-slb-ai-platform-over-120-drilling-rigs-2026","language":"en","title":"ADNOC and SLB deploy an AI platform across more than 120 rigs","summary":"The UAE rollout connects real-time drilling operations while retaining critical data in a local sovereign cloud.","body":["ADNOC and SLB announced on 4 August 2026 that an artificial-intelligence platform had been deployed across more than 120 onshore and offshore drilling rigs. The UAE project connects real-time operations and uses a sovereign cloud in the country to retain critical operational data. The announcement identifies ADNOC Onshore and ADNOC Offshore as operating companies and ADNOC Drilling as a service provider within the deployment.","According to ADNOC, the system reduced engineering effort by 30–40% and enabled engineers to support two to three times as many rigs. The company also reported faster preparation of reports, moving from days to hours, and incident responses four to twelve hours earlier. It linked the approach to avoiding one to two days of downtime. These are reported performance outcomes, not independently established guarantees for every rig or future drilling campaign.","The platform uses SLB's DrillOps technology to connect information and support drilling decisions. For upstream teams, that is relevant because operational data becomes more useful when it reaches engineers while work is under way. However, a deployed analytical system is different from a publicly available well database. The release does not publish the individual well records, coordinates or model inputs used by the platform, and it does not grant access to confidential drilling information.","The announcement provides a concrete technology-adoption signal for the UAE well-services industry. Its scope is a stated deployment across rigs, rather than a count of new wells or an oil-production forecast. Future assessments of business value would need consistently defined measures of engineering time, downtime and operational performance. Keeping those measures separate from field output allows the rollout to be evaluated without assuming that faster analysis automatically proves additional recoverable reserves."],"keyPoints":[],"sections":[],"text":"ADNOC and SLB deploy an AI platform across more than 120 rigs\n\nThe UAE rollout connects real-time drilling operations while retaining critical data in a local sovereign cloud.\n\nADNOC and SLB announced on 4 August 2026 that an artificial-intelligence platform had been deployed across more than 120 onshore and offshore drilling rigs. The UAE project connects real-time operations and uses a sovereign cloud in the country to retain critical operational data. The announcement identifies ADNOC Onshore and ADNOC Offshore as operating companies and ADNOC Drilling as a service provider within the deployment.\n\nAccording to ADNOC, the system reduced engineering effort by 30–40% and enabled engineers to support two to three times as many rigs. The company also reported faster preparation of reports, moving from days to hours, and incident responses four to twelve hours earlier. It linked the approach to avoiding one to two days of downtime. These are reported performance outcomes, not independently established guarantees for every rig or future drilling campaign.\n\nThe platform uses SLB's DrillOps technology to connect information and support drilling decisions. For upstream teams, that is relevant because operational data becomes more useful when it reaches engineers while work is under way. However, a deployed analytical system is different from a publicly available well database. The release does not publish the individual well records, coordinates or model inputs used by the platform, and it does not grant access to confidential drilling information.\n\nThe announcement provides a concrete technology-adoption signal for the UAE well-services industry. Its scope is a stated deployment across rigs, rather than a count of new wells or an oil-production forecast. Future assessments of business value would need consistently defined measures of engineering time, downtime and operational performance. Keeping those measures separate from field output allows the rollout to be evaluated without assuming that faster analysis automatically proves additional recoverable reserves.","category":"business","region":"world","topics":[],"eventDate":"2026-08-04","eventDateBasis":"source-event-or-period","publishedAt":"2026-10-03T15:14:59+03:00","modifiedAt":"2026-10-03T15:14:59+03:00","publicationBasis":"first-publication","preparedAt":null,"sourcePublishedAt":"2026-08-04","translatedAt":null,"sources":[{"name":"ADNOC","url":"https://www.adnoc.ae/en/news-and-media/press-releases/2026/adnoc-and-slb-deploy-ai-platform-across-over-120-drilling-rigs-to-strengthen-upstream-performance","checkedAt":"2026-10-03","publishedAt":"2026-08-04"}],"translations":{"en":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/adnoc-slb-ai-platform-over-120-drilling-rigs-2026","tr":"https://wellficent.com/tr/news/adnoc-slb-ai-platform-over-120-drilling-rigs-2026","ar":"https://wellficent.com/ar/news/adnoc-slb-ai-platform-over-120-drilling-rigs-2026","fr":"https://wellficent.com/fr/news/adnoc-slb-ai-platform-over-120-drilling-rigs-2026","es":"https://wellficent.com/es/news/adnoc-slb-ai-platform-over-120-drilling-rigs-2026","ru":"https://wellficent.com/ru/news/adnoc-slb-ai-platform-over-120-drilling-rigs-2026","pt":"https://wellficent.com/pt/news/adnoc-slb-ai-platform-over-120-drilling-rigs-2026"},"corrections":[],"locations":[{"id":"country-ae","type":"country","countryCode":"AE","name":{"en":"United Arab Emirates","tr":"Birleşik Arap Emirlikleri","ar":"الإمارات العربية المتحدة","fr":"Émirats arabes unis","es":"Emiratos Árabes Unidos","ru":"Объединённые Арабские Эмираты","pt":"Emirados Árabes Unidos"},"context":{"en":"Country context of the report, not an exact well location. The cited source supplies no verified well coordinates.","tr":"Haberin ülke bağlamıdır; kesin kuyu konumu değildir. Kaynak doğrulanmış kuyu koordinatı sağlamıyor.","ar":"سياق البلد للخبر، لا موقع بئر دقيق. لا يقدم المصدر إحداثيات آبار موثقة.","fr":"Contexte national du reportage, pas emplacement exact d’un puits. La source ne fournit pas de coordonnées vérifiées.","es":"Contexto nacional del informe, no ubicación exacta de un pozo. La fuente no proporciona coordenadas verificadas.","ru":"Страна указана для контекста материала, а не как точное местоположение скважины. Цитируемый источник не предоставляет проверенных координат скважин.","pt":"A localização indica o país referido no artigo, não a posição exata de um poço. A fonte citada não fornece coordenadas verificadas dos poços."},"source":{"name":"ADNOC","url":"https://www.adnoc.ae/en/news-and-media/press-releases/2026/adnoc-and-slb-deploy-ai-platform-across-over-120-drilling-rigs-to-strengthen-upstream-performance","checkedAt":"2026-10-03"}}],"wellIndustry":{"sector":"oil-gas","signal":"operational-result","activities":["drilling"],"metrics":[{"unit":"rigs","value":120,"qualifier":"more-than"}],"source":{"name":"ADNOC","url":"https://www.adnoc.ae/en/news-and-media/press-releases/2026/adnoc-and-slb-deploy-ai-platform-across-over-120-drilling-rigs-to-strengthen-upstream-performance","checkedAt":"2026-10-03"},"reviewedAt":"2026-10-03T12:03:26+00:00"}}