2024年，Nabors公司在巴肯地区的四座陆地钻井平台上开始试行每隔30天进行一次防喷器（BOP）压力测试，而不是行业标准的21天。该试验是应运营商的要求启动的。在六个月的时间里，这意味着总共减少了10次测试，而Nabors的运营团队报告称，没有发生任何设备故障，也没有对钻井平台的运营造成任何负面影响。

这些结果在Nabors公司内部引发了关于设备维护最佳实践以及当前行业测试间隔指南的讨论。在8月20日于路易斯安那州新奥尔良举行的2025年美洲IADC井控大会上，Nabors企业服务部高级QHSE经理兼全球井控联络员Richard Grayson与DC一起录制了一段视频，探讨了此次试运行的缘起及其迄今为止对Nabors运营的影响。2025年1月，该公司开始对其在北达科他州的所有陆地钻井平台实施30天的测试间隔。

In 2024 on four land rigs in the Bakken, Nabors began a trial of running BOP pressure tests at 30-day intervals instead of the industry standard 21-day intervals. The trial was initiated at the operator’s request. Over the course of six months, this meant 10 fewer tests were run overall, and Nabors’ operational team reported no equipment failures and no negative consequences on the rigs’ operations.

These results have opened up conversations within Nabors about best practices for equipment maintenance and current industry guidance on testing intervals. In this video with DC taken from the 2025 IADC Well Control Conference of the Americas on 20 August in New Orleans, La., Richard Grayson, Senior QHSE Manager and Global Well Control Focal Point at Nabors Corporate Services, discussed the genesis of this trial run and the impact it’s had on Nabors’ operations so far. In January 2025, the company began implementing 30-day testing intervals for all of its land rigs in North Dakota.