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» Patterson-UTI showcases performance-enhancing,
emission-reducing rig technologies
On 26 January, Patterson-UTI hosted a showcase event at its rig-
up yard in Houston, Texas, highlighting the company’s low-carbon
technologies. In this video taken from the event, DC speaks with
several of the company’s leaders, including Mike Holcomb, Chief
Operating Officer of Patterson-UTI Energy.

» SOCAR AQS looks to grow with new land rigs, drive
down well costs with expanded capabilities
In this video, Samir Mollayev, General-Director of SOCAR AQS, explains
how the company is working to identify ways to reduce well costs for
operators, including enhancing the company’s drilling engineering
and geology capabilities. Emissions reduction is another key focus,
as is development of SOCAR AQS’ technical workforce.

» New addition to NOV Max platform allows for real-
time monitoring of equipment during completions
Through its Max Completions software, NOV is looking to enable
the large-scale collection, aggregation and analytics of real-time
equipment data during completions operations. In this video,
Travis Thomas, Director of Digital Completions, discusses how to
quantify value from the platform and how operational uptime can
be impacted.

12 » SOCAR: Caspian faces new challenges and
opportunities as it moves to exploring deeper waters
At the 2023 IADC Drilling Caspian Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, DC
spoke with Yashar Latifov, VP Field Development for SOCAR, about
challenges related to the company’s exploration of deeper waters,
the Caspian Sea’s landlocked nature, and the area’s geology, which
features a lot of unconsolidated fine sand formations.

Halliburton: Automation enables companies to
gain clearer picture in frac operations
The incorporation of automation and AI in hydraulic fracturing
operations has been a key focus area for Halliburton in recent
years. DC spoke with William Rhule, Strategic Business Manager, at
the 2023 SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference about
its SmartFleet operating system and its Zeus electric pumping unit.

Frac monitoring app adopts standardized data
format to boost productivity, interoperability
In this video, DC talks with Brett Chell, Founder and CEO of Cold Bore,
about how standardizing data can help boost efficiency during a
frac operation. Its SmartPAD application now uses a standard data
format allowing connections from different control systems so they
can communicate with one another without the need to clean data.

M A R C H/A P R I L 2023 • D R I L L I N G C O N T R AC T O R



IADC
Drilling Onshore
CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION
18 MAY 2023
H YAT T R E G E N C Y
HOUSTON WEST
HOUSTON, TEXAS
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