Total picks eDrilling for well construction planning technologies

eDrilling, a supplier of AI, machine learning, and predictive analytics solutions to the oil and gas industry, has been awarded a contract by French oil major Total for its well construction planning technologies.

eDrilling said on Wednesday that the solutions would be a part of the Total Drilling Engineering Software Kit (also known as T-Desk) & Drilling & Wells digital platform re-development.

According to the company, T-Desk is the cornerstone software for well design engineering within Total.

Its functionalities allow engineers to perform all front-end engineering and design for wells as well as operations follow up through torque and drag and calculations benchmark against field data.

T-Desk also includes a web-based architecture which relies on microservices.