09:50 AM EST, 02/26/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Halliburton ( HAL ) and Sekal said Wednesday that they have deployed the world's first automated on-bottom drilling system.

The two companies delivered a well for Equinor ( EQNR ) on the Norwegian Continental Shelf with an integrated closed-loop control solution. The system optimizes well placement and drilling within safe limits through real-time advanced models of subsurface, wellbore fluid, and pressure systems, they said.

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