Huge power consumers provide many opportunities for huge savings.

Floating rig saving 8000 liters of diesel per day? Saving 17 tonnes of CO2 per day? Those numbers are now realistic figures and not some far away dream.

Reducing emissions, the industry cannot escape from taking this message to heart and so the search for the right technology, specifically for the Oil industry, has started. In fact the search started quite a while ago and many companies have used their scarce R&D budgets to develop the solution that helps the industry achieve its goals. Budgets for developing ‘green’ technologies during an all-time low in the industry, with as bonus a global pandemic on top of it, has been challenging. But isn't it that in hard times the creative minds step up to come with the best ideas? If pressure makes diamonds, then developing ideas into products without proper budgets and resources, must have led to some breakthrough technology to save the earth. Together with our customers, NOV certainly has risen to the challenge and now has a wide range of technologies that provide a solution to a part of the puzzle. Combined these solution show the complete picture of what is possible. So what was the approach?

As with many technical challenges, there is not a single solution providing the answer, so when focusing on the issue at hand; ‘how can we help reduce emissions on drilling rigs’, NOV took on a big challenge and approached it at a granular level; breaking down the problem into smaller problems, then breaking down the smaller problems in manageable challenges. To start this all, that in order to reduce emissions, you need to know what causes these emission, where do they come from and how are they affected by location, type of operation, equipment used, people operating the drilling equipment, etc, etc.

To tackle the problem three major areas are focused on; what are the consumers for the drilling package (consumption), how efficient are these consumers being operated and what technology can be applied to lower fuel consumption

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