Baker Hughes has secured a multi-year settlement from Aramco to considerably develop its built-in underbalanced coiled tubing drilling (UBCTD) operations throughout Saudi Arabia’s pure fuel fields. The order, booked within the third quarter of 2025, will see Baker Hughes enhance its lively UBCTD fleet from 4 to 10 models starting in 2026.
Beneath the brand new contract, Baker Hughes will ship an expanded scope of providers, together with underbalanced drilling, operational administration, nicely development, and geoscience assist for each re-entry and greenfield drilling initiatives. The enlargement goals to reinforce fuel manufacturing effectivity, optimize reservoir restoration, and assist Saudi Arabia’s rising deal with fuel as a key driver of home vitality provide and industrial development.
“This venture is the results of practically twenty years of profitable collaboration between Baker Hughes and Aramco, which have set the usual for UBCTD,” stated Amerino Gatti, govt vp of Oilfield Companies & Tools at Baker Hughes. “By combining superior applied sciences with a holistic, built-in method, we are able to assist Aramco to extra effectively entry bypassed and hard-to-reach hydrocarbons and produce the sources that assist the Kingdom thrive.”
Baker Hughes’ UBCTD operations will leverage its CoilTrak™ bottomhole meeting system alongside GaffneyCline™ vitality advisory providers, integrating reservoir evaluation with exact, real-time drilling management. This mix permits operators to navigate advanced horizontal wells and re-entry operations whereas minimizing formation harm and enhancing total security and effectivity.
The corporate stated the brand new settlement reinforces its long-term presence in Saudi Arabia’s vitality sector, the place it has maintained UBCTD operations since 2008. Baker Hughes continues to report robust well being, security, and environmental efficiency whereas advancing digital and automatic drilling practices.
The expanded UBCTD program is predicted to play a key function in supporting Aramco’s ongoing efforts to unlock extra fuel reserves and optimize manufacturing from established fields as a part of the Kingdom’s broader vitality diversification targets.