空中无人机和无人水面航行器（USV）等技术的进步意味着运营商和钻井承包商必须增强对这些技术可能给钻井资产带来的越来越大的物理风险的认识。

9 月 17 日，RMI Global Solutions 情报主管 Cliff Thoburn 在荷兰鹿特丹举行的 2024 年 IADC HSE 和可持续发展欧洲会议上接受 DC 采访时指出，世界各地的各种地缘政治事件正在加速威胁动态的变化速度。事实上，Thoburn 先生说，钻井行业过去享有的保护自身的质量优势现在已经不复存在。他还解释了一些公司应该考虑的风险缓解策略。

Advances in technologies like airborne drones and uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) mean that operators and drilling contractors must enhance their awareness of the increasing physical risks those technologies can pose to drilling assets.

Speaking with DC from the 2024 IADC HSE & Sustainability Europe Conference in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, on 17 September, Cliff Thoburn, Head of Intelligence for RMI Global Solutions, noted how various geopolitical events around the world are quickening the pace of change in threat dynamics. In fact, the qualitative advantages that the drilling industry used to enjoy to protect itself are now gone, Mr Thoburn said. He also explains some of the risk mitigation strategies that companies should consider.