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Enhancing offshore safety through strong well control barrier management tools and practices

Managing well control is essential to safe offshore operations.

The Drilling & Wells Support (DWS) team integrates sustainability into day-to-day operations by strengthening Noble’s barrier management approach to well control. This approach is intended to reduce risk to people, the environment, and assets, while supporting reliable performance.

As the corporate integrity function for well control, the team develops and maintains Noble’s well control strategy and the Well Control Manuals ecosystem. This promotes consistency in technical and procedural expectations across the global fleet and ensures alignment with regulatory and customer requirements. These manuals and procedures constitute the operational barrier.

Tools that enhance competency, visibility, and learning support execution

The DrillPad application standardizes well control drills and exercises, enabling crews to train, record, and evaluate performance consistently.

 

Expanded access and fleetwide coverage of Noble DrillPad application achieved in 2025.

 

 

The Well Control Incident dashboard aggregates historical data and trends by region, informing targeted interventions that enhance detection techniques and help prevent serious well control incidents that could lead to spills to the environment.

Well control training and personnel competency constitute the organizational barrier. This is reinforced through a robust and structured schedule of well control drills and exercises, facilitated by the in-house developed Noble DrillPad application.

Through the Well Review Process, targeted at new drilling campaigns in emerging areas, the DWS team proactively identifies and recommends opportunities for operational efficiencies based on fleet-wide lessons learned. These improvements help reduce non-productive time, which in turn lowers fuel consumption and associated emissions, complementing safety outcomes with environmental benefits.

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