AGR has entered into a strategic partnership with THF Engineered Solutions (THF) to explore how engineering-led artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance well planning, assurance and well delivery.
The partnership combines AGR's 35+ years of well engineering and project delivery experience with THF's AI-enabled workflow platform, WellPhase, to help operators and engineers identify operational risks earlier, improve planning quality, reduce time spent reviewing historical well data and deliver wells more safely and efficiently.
The collaboration builds on a successful offset well review pilot involving AGR's well specialists. Using WellPhase and its embedded Engineering Logic and Learning Intelligence System (ELLIS), large volumes of historical well information can be rapidly analysed and transformed into structured engineering insights, providing engineers with a traceable first-pass review of key events, risks and planning considerations.
"AGR has built its reputation on delivering safe, high-quality well engineering solutions for clients worldwide," said Lynden Duthie, Managing Director of AGR's Well Management business. "By combining our operational expertise with THF's AI-enabled workflow technology, we see an opportunity to unlock greater value from historical well data for clients, freeing up engineering time from manual processes to strengthen planning quality and improving consistency in well delivery across projects."
Christopher Smith, Founder of THF Engineered Solutions, added: "Our goal is to help engineers spend less time gathering and structuring information and more time applying their expertise to critical decisions. Working with AGR ensures the solutions we develop are grounded in real-world well engineering challenges and operational requirements."
While offset well reviews are the first workflow being explored, AGR and THF see opportunities to apply the approach across a wider range of well engineering, assurance and operational processes, including standards compliance, well operations planning and regulatory assurance.
AGR is part of Oslo-listed energy and marine consultancy group Aqualis ASA.