eDrilling Digital Twin in the Gazprom Neft Drilling Support Centre (photo: Gazprom)

eDrilling has announced that it has signed a contract with Gazpromneft’s Drilling Support Center (DSC) GeoNavigator, a subdivision of Gazpromneft Science and Technology Centre, for the use of eDrilling’s software to support oil company’s drilling operations.

“Our objective is to increase production and to improve production efficiency through the use of new technologies and design solutions in the field.” remarks Mars Khasanov, CEO of Gaspromneft Science and Technology Center. “Using digital representations or versions – digital twins – of our wells, combined with predictive analytics and automated diagnostics, will result in real, and lasting, efficiency gains in hard-to-recover reserves development.”

“Gazpromneft are at the forefront, shaping the digital agenda and transformation of the oil industry,” adds Sven Inge Ødegaard, COO of eDrilling. “There are huge savings as well as safety and efficiency gains to be made by moving to game changing application, intelligent use, and pairing, of real time digital and physical drilling data.”

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