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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.