Schlumberger to monitor 18 rigs
Schlumberger has won an Rs131cr ($15.6m) Oil India contract Oil India to monitor the drilling activities of 18 rigs.
Schlumberger's price was just 1% lower than rival Halliburton but 60% lower than the other competitor, Nabors, for the four-year contract at Oil India's enhanced RealTime Monitoring and Analytics Centre (eRTMAC). Oil India's website says the centre is "equipped with state-of-the-art technologies to monitor drilling operations in real-time with an advanced visualisation platform and cutting-edge sensor technology; it includes the transmission of real-time critical well data to the command centre."
Oil India's website adds that the centre is monitored around the clock by skilled engineers who analyse data, make real-time decisions, and ensure drilling safety and efficiency. "Drilling operations at FHQ (Oil India's Field Headquarters in Duliajan) has already established a real-time drilling operational monitoring centre," says Oil India's tender dated February 26 (2024).
"Now Oil India intends to scale up the real-time drilling data flow to its FHQ covering all the present rigs with an option to include additional rigs in case new rigs are added to the fleet." Oil India adds that it wants the drilling rigs monitored 24 hours a day, seven days a week with "data acquisition, aggregation, transfer, visualisation and analytics."
Oil India had previously hired Japan's Yokogawa India on September 21 (2021) under a Rs21.8cr ($2.6m) contract for "Real Time Production Monitoring and Analysis (RTPM)." Yokogawa India beat Schlumberger and ABB India for that assignment, which runs until March 2027.
Yokogawa's work falls under Oil India's DRIVE (Digital Readiness for Innovation and Value in E&P) programme, which partners with Accenture to leverage digital technologies and advanced analytics advances.