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WillCo Digital Drilling Intelligence - Edition #19: Drilling Automation at Scale. Sep 28 - Oct 4, 2026
This week the test for drilling automation shifted from 'does it work' to 'does it hold across hundreds of wells.' SLB won four multi-year integrated well-construction contracts from Aramco covering more than 450 wells; WesCan steered a seven-leg multilateral to TD in 13 days; Fervo reported first power at Cape Station; Zefiro drilled a first carbon-storage well by redeploying a plugging crew; and a new patent application puts +/-10,000 lbf on a quiet weight-on-bit error. Sca

William B. Contreras
Sep 309 min read
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