Woodside Energy announced on 31 March that is has awarded SLB a major drilling contract on its ultradeepwater Trion development projectoffshore Mexico.
The 3-year contract includes digital directional drilling services along with the hardware to support logging while drilling, surface logging, cementing, and other drilling and completions operations for 18 ultradeepwater wells.
Trion, located approximately 30 km south of the US–Mexico maritime border and 180 km off the Mexican coastline in water depths of up to 2500 m, is considered a technically challenging field to develop, according to Wallace Pescarini, president of Offshore Atlantic at SLB.
However, “SLB has extensive expertise in ultradeepwater drilling projects globally and advanced technologies, including [artificial intelligence] and digitally enabled hardware, to bring these wells online safely, efficiently, and reliably,” he said in a press statement. SLB will begin providing services at Trion in early 2026.
The contract follows another major contract that Woodside awarded to SLB’s OneSubsea joint venture in 2023 for the Trion development. That contract included the provision of subsea trees, controls, and topside equipment.
Last year, the Australian independent oil and gas company contracted Subsea7 to provide engineering, procurement, construction, and installation of subsea umbilicals, risers, and flowlines on the project.
Woodside is developing the field in partnership with Pemex with first production targeted for 2028.
