Offshore staff
ABU DHABI, UAE – ADNOC has signed a framework agreement with King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, to explore the potential for collaboration in R&D and development of a student-ADNOC graduates exchange program.
The two parties will work together on topics of strategic importance to ADNOC such as enhanced oil recovery (EOR), field development optimization, and oil and gas processing further downstream, to improve the performance of ADNOC’s assets.
In addition, ADNOC employees will be able to undertake postgraduate education in oil and gas degrees, courses and training programs at KFUPM.
Dr. Sahel Abdujauwad, Rector of KFUPM, said that his organization, established in 1963, has focused on different fields of energy and has established a science park with multinational research centers in upstream oil and gas.
It enrols more than 8,000 students pursuing undergraduate, masters, and doctorate degrees in different disciplines.
ADNOC also partners with Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, Imperial College London, University of Cambridge, UK, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US, Columbia University, US and University of Bergen, Norway.
During the 14th Rig Owners Seminar, held today on the sidelines of ADIPEC, Abdalla Saeed Al Suwaidi, CEO ofADNOC Drilling, outlined various ways his company has been advancing technologies and applications such as machine learning, neural networks, and predictive data to increase drilling productivity.
They include the company’s Panorama Digital Command Center and the Thamama Subsurface Collaboration Center where ADNOC is applying ‘big data’ technologies and artificial intelligence to help maximize value from its assets and resources and achieve targets such as reducing well drilling times by 30% by the end of 2019.
ADNOC Drilling, established in 1972, is the Middle East’s largest drilling company, operating a fleet that includes 20 jackups and 11 island rigs, and providing rigs and associated services to ADNOC Group companies. To date it has drilled more than 8,000 wells.
11/15/2018
