SCHLUMBERGER & SENSE INTELLIFIELD SIGN AGREEMENT TO COLLABORATE ON INTERACTIVE DRILLING OPERATION CENTERS
07 September 2005 - Schlumberger

Schlumberger today announced it has signed a joint marketing agreement with Sense Intellifield to provide customers with design and installation of real-time drilling operation centers.

To strengthen the total offering, Schlumberger will provide operations management and technical services including the analysis and interpretation of data, software, connectivity, and data security. Sense Intellifield will provide complementary design, construction, commissioning, hardware and software, and system support services.

In 2002, Statoil worked with Sense Intellifield to build its first drilling operation support center in Stjørdal for its Halten Nordland area. Based on the success of this center, Statoil has established several collaboration and operation rooms for operations in both Norway and internationally.

"Statoil uses collaborative real-time environments to remotely monitor, model, and control processes to optimize drilling," said Peter Nielsen, senior advisor, Statoil. "In the Åsgaard field, Schlumberger is providing seamless 24/7 support between the field and Statoil's Stjørdal center and Schlumberger's centers in Aberdeen and Stavanger."

Backed by experience in developing collaboration centers and more than 15-years experience in real-time drilling operations, Schlumberger presently operates 27 in-house drilling operation centers worldwide. The first center, built in 1995 in Aberdeen, securely monitors drilling operations for North Sea customers. These centers give customers secure access to the Schlumberger InterAct real-time monitoring and data delivery technology and expertise.

"This collaboration brings together the complementary services of both Schlumberger and Sense Intellifield," said Paal Kibsgaard, president, Drilling & Measurements, Schlumberger. "As demonstrated with Statoil, we provide the flexibility to run real-time operations from the customer's center, our center or a combination of both, to optimize the drilling process by reducing cost and risk. Moving forward, we want to leverage this collaboration to offer industry- leading real-time drilling operation centers. With this agreement we are offering customers the strongest interactive drilling operation solution in the market."

Sense Intellifield, the industry leader in purpose-built, remote drilling operation centers, has constructed over 80 systems in the North Sea and elsewhere. Sense Intellifield offers equipment and services for the automation and remote operation of offshore installations. This allows customers to transfer working processes to land-based sites, enabling efficiency gains.

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