Transitioning Towards Excellence: Empowering Sustainable Well Operations Through AI and Digitalization with ADNOC Onshore Real-Time Intelligence Center

Abstract The oil and gas industry has seen tangible benefits from digital transformation, with numerous advantages in value creation, business empowerment, and sustainability. The drilling sector in specific has adopted digital advanced solutions to enhance performance. This paper showcases the journey of a Real Time Operation Center (RTOC). The RTOC is progressing to an advanced form, the Real Time Intelligent Center (RTIC), paving the path and leading the way for real time centers looking after drilling operations. ADNOC Onshore’s Real-Time Operations Center (RTOC) is progressing towards the full transitioning into a Real-Time Intelligence Center (RTIC). Throughout the process, the RTOC is leading the Drilling Function by seamlessly integrating AI and digitalization across every phase of well development. The RTIC enhances precision through digitalized well planning. This is done using data-driven insights to optimize the annual wells plan and targets. With digitalized HSE, it enforces safety standards and risk mitigation in real time. Digitalized Well Engineering brings advanced simulation and modeling to the forefront, allowing engineers to test designs virtually before implementing them in the field. Digitalized Well Operations empowers teams to make informed and agile decisions. Built on those four sturdy pillars of digitalized HSE, Well Planning, Well Engineering, and Well Operations, the RTIC steers maximum optimization by divulging the invisible areas of improvement. The RTIC is significantly enhancing wells performance, driving powerful results through its full-scale integration of AI and digitalization. Built on four sturdy pillars of digitalized HSE, Well Planning, Well Engineering, and Well Operations, the RTIC steers maximum optimization through divulging the invisible areas of improvement. Digitalized HSE elevates safety, using real-time data to predict and prevent risks, creating a safer and more sustainable work environment. With Digitalized Well Planning, RTIC enables accurate and efficient business planning for the whole Drilling Function. Digitalized Well Engineering redefines the process of making well programs, transforming it to full automation, for cost effective and efficient well delivery. Finally, Digitalized Well Operations enhances drilling and completions performance through automated proactive alerting of anomalies minimizing downtime, and maximizing performance via AI prediction tools. RTIC not only makes drilling operations become smarter, but also set a new standard for sustainable and efficient energy production. Through the RTIC, the revolutionary concept of the "Drill Brain" is introduced, which is a core advisory solution that aim to optimize performance, query technical questions, and provide recommendations to users based on both historical and real-time data. This novel concept is built on multiple systems and initiatives. The combination of efficient workflows stemming from the Drill Brain to achieve optimum well performance all while maintaining highest safety levels, is something never done before. The RTIC coupled with the 1st of its kind Drill Brain lays a solid platform where digital solutions and sophisticated real time software effectively collaborate to optimize drilling operations. This comprehensive model is pioneering drilling digitalization and real time structures considering the mass of operations covered and revenue achieved.