An offshore drilling contractor, US Gulf Coast
An agentic operations console that auto-generates IADC daily drilling reports and surfaces hazard predictions to the toolpusher — without ever taking the well.
- Daily report turnaround (was 2.5 hrs)
- 11 min
- Median lead-time on near-miss flags
- 38 min
- Toolpusher-decision integrity
- 100%
The contractor ran a fleet of jack-ups in the US Gulf, and the back end of every shift was the same problem in a different chair: the toolpusher closed the day by hand-writing an IADC daily drilling report from memory and the morning's tour sheets, while a separate engineering review tried to catch the near-misses the report had blurred. The engagement was a single operations console that ingests rig telemetry in real time, drafts the daily report as the shift unfolds, and runs a banded-confidence hazard model against the same telemetry — surfacing decisions to the toolpusher, never to the well control system.
- 01Telemetry ingest with provenance
Bit depth, ROP, WOB, RPM, pit volume, mud weight, and standpipe pressure stream in from the rig's existing sensors through an event bus we built specifically for replayability — every report draft is reproducible from the same audit-stamped event log.
- 02Report drafted as the shift unfolds
The IADC report's operational fields populate from telemetry continuously; the Operations Summary block is drafted by the agent and held in a 'Toolpusher to review' state — never released until the shift's senior operator accepts or edits the draft.
- 03Hazard predictions, banded
Kick probability, stuck-pipe risk, and bit-wear progression are surfaced as banded confidence rather than point estimates. The agent flags a hazard when a band crosses a threshold; it never makes a control decision and is firewalled from the well control system at the network layer.
- 04Operator-in-the-loop, by contract
Every hazard flag is delivered as a decision prompt to the toolpusher — accept, override, or escalate. The integrity metric the contractor cares about most is not the agent's hit rate; it is whether the toolpusher remains the decision-maker on every shift, audited at 100% for twelve months.
The agent writes the report. The toolpusher takes the well.
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