Remote work was one of the changes bestowed upon us by the pandemic—and it may turn into a long-term trend. This trend was most visible in office jobs, but it was by no means limited to them. Oil drillers went remote, too. And they plan to stay remote. The words “remote drilling” probably conjures up an image of a lonely offshore platform or a field in the Texas shale plays with no crew to man the equipment because everything is done from a command center hundreds of miles away. Yet remote drilling is much more than that. The activities grouped under the term remote drilling are a whole spectrum, Shan Jegatheeswaran, vice president of digital for Oilfield Services at Baker Hughes, told Oilprice this week. It is not only about remote control, either. Remote drilling spans activities as diverse as drilling, logistics, data processing and sharing, and a better […]