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Link to the discussion on Autonomous operations

Great article on JPT with some input from our very own Shashi Talya... Are we reducing human cognitive burden or actually just repositioning it when we transition to remote operations ? What are your thoughts...

Read a great article today on the ironies of automation and human factors. I particularly like irony no.2 and the need to dynamically allocate tasks to humans. Are we taking time to think about these dimensions and the latent impacts that can result ?

https://www.rigzone.com/a-drilling-automation-jobs/?gclid=CjwKCAiA-dCcBhBQEiwAeWidtf2k79VLXhpIonJkojhl5P4cEfeo4WUw-MgCLtuK_n1BWUe29PhHQxoCEmMQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

A great article on the discussion that took place at the 2022 DSATS symposium around the need to better align business models to automated technologies and solutions.

Interview with Pason's Aaron Eddy https://www.linkedin.com/video/event/urn:li:ugcPost:7005597273015345152/

Interesting times ahead as Nabors and NOV deploy retrofittable rigfloor robotics. https://www.nabors.com/for-contractors-ofs/canrig-robotics/red-zone-robotics-rzr-rig-floor/ https://www.nov.com/products/atom-rtx I see a lot of well construction inefficiencies this can target. Will be interesting to see how the economics work out on this for land vs offshore deployments.