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SPE Live: Trends in Well Construction Automation: More to Come?

Drilling systems automation has made great strides in applications, with more progress coming. The question now is how the value proposition holds up and what growth is potentially in the future for automation of well completion, intervention, and P&A activities.

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SPE DSATS and IADC ART have organized a symposium immediately preceding the annual SPE/IADC International Drilling Conference and Exhibition in Stavanger, Norway, in March to address these questions. As a prelude, this SPE Live touches on some of the known knowns and known unknowns to start unravelling the issues facing the future of automation in constructing oil and gas and geothermal wells.

Join JPT Senior Technology Editor, Jennifer Presley, as she interviews John de Wardt, De Wardt and Company, Director Emeritus SPE DSATS, and John Macpherson, Baker Hughes, Director Emeritus SPE DSATS.