Romania’s state-owned gas producer Romgaz has awarded Weatherford an 8-year contract to leverage digital and AI-enabled technologies in delivering real-time wellhead-monitoring services to optimize production across thousands of wells to meet new EU methane standards.
The contract announced on 23 September is a first response to the Romanian government’s adoption of emissions monitoring laws that seek to comply with the EU Methane Emission Regulation by early 2027.
The scope of the contract is intended to digitize Romgaz’s well portfolio across almost all major onshore producing basins in Romania plus offshore wells as they enter production.
Girish K. Saligram, president and CEO of Weatherford, noted in a news release that the contract represents Romania’s “first deployment of real-time monitoring services” and that Weatherford’s “technology, expertise, and recent investments in Romania (will help) Romgaz optimize production and build fields of the future with solutions that enable smarter and more reliable operations.”
A First for Romania
Razvan Popescu, CEO of Romgaz, said, “We are confident that this collaboration with Weatherford represents a strategic first step in integrating AI-driven technologies into our operations and laying the foundation for a new era of intelligent transformation.
“For the first time, we are implementing real-time wellsite monitoring technologies that will provide actionable insights and enhance the efficiency of our operations.”
Weatherford said its well-monitoring solutions provide operators with continuous, high-fidelity well data, enabling smarter decision-making and proactive intervention strategies that will enable Romgaz to benefit from enhanced visibility of well conditions and the ability to optimize production.
Romgaz's partnership with Weatherford to implement real-time wellsite monitoring targets thousands of gas wells across Romania’s key producing regions including
- Transylvania and its large onshore conventional gas fields such as Filitelnic and Deleni, the country’s largest
- Mature gas-producing fields onshore in Moldavia and Wallachia
- Black Sea offshore developments, including the Neptun Deep project where 50/50 partners OMV Petrom and Romgaz are engaged in a 10-well drilling campaign that will continue through Q4 2026
After Neptun Deep’s first gas comes on-stream in 2027, the project is expected to plateau at 8 Bcm/year, sustainable over 10 years, making Romania the EU’s largest gas producer, according to Wood MacKenzie.
