Halliburton buys Sekal from Sumitomo to bolster drilling automation

Halliburton has acquired Norwegian exertion supplier Sekal from Sumitomo successful a determination to heighten its drilling automation offerings.

The fiscal presumption of the woody were not disclosed.

Previously, Sumitomo had supported Sekal successful expanding its marketplace beingness and strengthening interior governance.

Sekal’s DrillTronics automation exertion volition beryllium combined with Halliburton’s LOGIX automation and distant operations to make an expanded portfolio of automation services.

This combined level volition besides incorporated Halliburton’s LOGIX Automated Geosteering service, which is intended to assistance amended reservoir entree and drilling consistency.

The integrated strategy allows for automated absorption of drilling operations, including real-time coordination of good placement, wellbore hydraulics, and rig activities.

Halliburton Sperry Drilling vice president Jim Collins said: “This acquisition rapidly expands our automation capabilities and delivers industry-leading integer solutions that little good operation costs, summation recovery, and trim operational risks for our customers. By bringing unneurotic our field-proven technologies, we unlock the afloat imaginable of integer good operation and acceptable a caller modular for automated drilling operations.”

At present, the Halliburton-Sekal solution is deployed successful respective projects, providing models of subsurface conditions, wellbore fluids, and unit systems. These tools run successful conjunction with directional drilling technologies and automated controls.

According to some companies, customers whitethorn spot up to a 25% simplification successful good transportation times, owed to improvements successful good placement, dynamic optimisation of drilling parameters, and afloat automated tripping processes.

Sekal specialises successful integer drilling automation and has supplied integrated tools and services to lipid and state operators and drilling companies since its constitution successful 2011.

The technology’s origins are tied to probe developed by the International Research Institute of Stavanger (IRIS). Sekal, anterior to the acquisition, was a collaborative task betwixt entities including Statoil, Saudi Aramco, SåkornInvest, and IRIS.

Sekal main enforcement Jarle Vaag said: “Joining Halliburton is simply a earthy improvement for Sekal. The squad astatine Sekal has worked intimately with our clients providing our exertion and services to the manufacture careless of the work providers.

“While we volition proceed to enactment this market, the accidental with the combined expertise of Halliburton and Sekal to beforehand our method capableness and accelerate the adoption of digitally integrated good operation volition present a unsocial automation solution to our caller and existing customers worldwide.”