Nabors Industries Ltd. 于 11 月 16 日推出了全自动陆地钻机，配备“首个同类机器人模块”，标志着行业的一个重要里程碑。

2021 年，Nabors 和埃克森美孚证明，使用 Nabors 新建的 R801 机器人钻机可以实现全自动陆地钻探。现在，两家公司的合作已进入下一阶段，推出了 Canrig Red Zone Robotics (RZR) 钻机平台模块，这是一种模块化钻机升级，可实现日常钻井活动的自动化。

▲801证明完全自动化的陆地钻探是可能的。现在，RZR 已经证明，可以在现有资产上扩展相同水平的自动化，而成本只是新建资产的一小部分。”Nabors 董事长、总裁兼首席执行官 Anthony Petrello 在一份声明中表示。

Nabors 使用 RZR（发音为 razor）改造了现有的钻机“捕获 29”，并已成功为埃克森美孚在二叠纪盆地钻了多口水平井。

“这个钻台自动化模块改变了钻井行业的游戏规则，因为它寻求提高安全性并实现真正的工厂钻井，”Petrello 说。

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Nabors 还指出，它为 X29 配备了 RZR，成本仅为新建钻机的一小部分。该公司表示，目前可以使用资本轻型升级来提高现有资产的钻井性能，而不是随着时间的推移逐步建造全自动钻机。

埃克森美孚二叠纪盆地钻井经理 Jesse Chando 在纳博斯发布。

R801 是世界上第一台全自动陆地钻机，是专门建造的钻井自动化试验场和发射台。Nabors 和埃克森美孚最近使用 R801 钻探了 9 口井，可记录事故为零，钻井时间接近 Nabors 西德克萨斯州最佳船队的平均水平。

Nabors 表示，随着两家公司的技术合作进入下一阶段，从 R801 活动中获得的经验已应用于 RZR 的部署，以快速扩大模块化钻机升级的使用，作为实现完全自动化的途径。

“我们很高兴随着时间的推移将 RZR 集成到我们的高规格钻机上，并向任何钻井承包商提供该系统，”Petrello 说。“感谢埃克森美孚在推动钻井技术方面的持续合作和领导地位。”

Nabors Industries Ltd. unveiled a fully automated land rig on Nov. 16 with a “first-of-its-kind robotics module,” marking a major industry milestone.

In 2021, Nabors and Exxon Mobil proved fully automated land drilling is possible with Nabors’ newbuild R801 robotic drilling rig. Now, the companies have advanced to the next phase of their collaboration with the launch of Canrig Red Zone Robotics (RZR) Rig Floor Module, a modular rig upgrade that automates routine drilling activities.

“R801 proved fully automated land drilling is possible. Now RZR has demonstrated those same levels of automation can be scaled across existing assets at a fraction of the cost of a newbuild,” Anthony Petrello, chairman, president and CEO of Nabors, said in a statement.

Nabors retrofitted an existing rig—X29—with RZR (pronounced razor) and has successfully drilled multiple horizontal wells for Exxon Mobil in the Permian Basin.

“This rig floor automation module is a game changer for the drilling industry as it seeks to increase safety and achieve true factory drilling,” Petrello said.

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Nabors also noted it equipped X29 with RZR at a fraction of the cost of a newbuild rig. The company said the capital light upgrades can be used today to elevate drilling performance on existing assets instead of building fully automated rigs progressively over time.

“Retrofitted automation capabilities, like what the RZR Rig Floor offers, are an efficient way to support safer operations, increased drilling performance and meaningful opportunities to upskill our workforce capabilities,” Jesse Chando, Permian Basin drilling manager at Exxon Mobil, commented in the Nabors release.

The world’s first fully automated land drilling rig, R801 is a purpose-built proving ground and launchpad for drilling automation. Nabors and ExxonMobil recently drilled nine wells with R801 with zero recordable incidents and well times approaching Nabors’ best West Texas fleet averages.

Nabors said as the companies’ progress to the next stage in their technology collaboration, learnings from the R801 campaign have been applied to RZR’s deployment, to rapidly scale up the use of modular rig upgrades as a path to full automation.

“We are excited to integrate RZR on our high-spec rigs over time and offer the system to any drilling contractor,” Petrello said. “We thank Exxon Mobil for its continued collaboration and leadership in driving drilling technology.”