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Precision Drilling's Alpha digital suite has been recognized with the 2020 Energy Excellence Awards “Innovation & Technology Excellence” champion, and the company has also received Hitachi’s Transformation Award for Data Insights Optimization...

Precision Drilling's Alpha digital suite has been recognized with the 2020 Energy Excellence Awards “Innovation & Technology Excellence” champion, and the company has also received Hitachi’s Transformation Award for Data Insights Optimization...

To increase overall drilling performance and the repeatability of successfully drilled wells, drilling contractors have been developing or acquiring process automation technologies for years. Drilling automation technology encompasses everything from basic autodrillers all the way up to complete slips-to-slips automation...

While offshore drilling contractors entered 2020 hoping this would be the turnaround year, it’s becoming clear they will continue to be plagued by dayrate and utilization challenges in the short term...

Though industry has achieved significant cost savings at hydraulic fracturing sites in recent years, completions costs can often be twice as high as drilling costs. Optimizing frac pumping schedules through machine learning may prove valuable in bringing completions costs down.