SLB has been awarded four integrated well construction contracts by Aramco to support oil and gas development across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Under the contracts, SLB will manage end-to-end well construction services, delivering more than 450 wells over the three-year term, with an optional extension of up to two years.
What is integrated well construction?
As projects become larger and more complex, integrating planning, execution and digital workflows helps to reduce operational costs, speed up delivery, and minimise risks. In Namibia, an integrated well construction campaign cut the award-to-spud cycle by 67%, from a traditional 18-month timeline to six months.
Streamlined approach
Integrated well construction brings together engineering, drilling, and completions into a single, streamlined approach to well design and execution, through a technology-enabled operating model. It combines digital drilling workflows with automated drilling, evaluation, fluids, cementing, and completions products and services to improve efficiency, consistency, and well performance across diverse, large-scale drilling programmes. Integration ensures that information flows seamlessly throughout the organisation, without silos.
Planning to execution expertise
SLB’s well engineering expertise optimises every phase—from exploration to full field development—through strong risk management and operational oversight. This enables the delivery of safe, efficient, and precise outcomes tailored to the customer’s reservoir challenges.
Leading technologies
SLB combines advanced well construction technologies with fit-for-purpose solutions to improve performance and set new standards in execution.
Digitally enabled workflows
From autonomous drilling to AI-driven decision-making, digital solutions drive smarter, faster, and more reliable results.
"Delivering hundreds of wells across a multi-year programme and in multiple operating environments requires an integrated model that connects planning, execution, and digital workflows to set new industry performance benchmarks,” said Steve Gassen, executive vice president of Geographies for SLB. “Awarding SLB these advanced well construction programmes at scale reflects Aramco’s confidence in our integrated model and capabilities."
Building on the longstanding collaboration between SLB and Aramco, the awards represent a significant expansion of SLB's integrated well construction business in the Kingdom and reflect growing customer adoption of integrated delivery models for large-scale drilling programmes, highlighting the model’s ability to improve execution consistency across the well construction lifecycle. It comes as Aramco continues to pursue major projects to maintain maximum sustainable capacity at 12mn bpd, such as the Zuluf crude oil increment project and the Dammam development, as well as to grow gas production capacity by around 80%, with a focus on unlocking its unconventional gas resources. SLB was awarded a five-year contract by Aramco to provide stimulation services for its unconventional gas fields earlier this year.
SLB awarded integrated well construction contracts by Aramco
