While identifying big levers and bold future aspirations is essential, realizing their value is far more challenging. Big levers rarely operate in isolation. They belong to interconnected technical, organizational, digital, execution, and assurance systems whose interactions ultimately determine well lifecycle outcomes.

This session examines how early well construction and concept decisions propagate across the lifecycle, influencing drilling and completion performance, production recovery, intervention flexibility, and ultimately abandonment complexity and extended liability. By mapping "system of systems" interactions, the discussion focuses on where value is created, constrained, or irreversibly locked in.

Questions to consider include:

• How do these systems interact across different operating contexts—major and independent operators, regions, well types, completion techniques, production enhancements, and increasing automation?
• Where do interdependencies amplify value, and where does fragmented optimization erode it?
• What must be integrated—and what must fundamentally change—to translate bold ideas into sustainable, lifecycle-wide value?

From well concept through abandonment, transformative workflows will improve lifecycle value by shifting decision-making earlier, explicitly managing uncertainty, leveraging digital technologies, and integrating across disciplines to maximize wellbore lifecycle value, in a safe manner, and in compliance with governing laws and regulations.

Today’s wellbore construction (WC) workflows prioritize cost and execution, while future workflows must prioritize lifecycle value, safety, and optionality for real-time decision-making, which can result in lost value due to early decision lock-in, reactive uncertainty management, and poor information transfer between organizational areas. Future wellbore construction engineers (WCEs) should evolve from well deliverer to lifecycle value architect, emphasizing probabilistic thinking, systems engineering, and human–AI collaboration.

Participants will propose transformative workflow shifts that improve lifecycle value, and leave with a clearer vision of future drilling WCE workflows, a shared understanding of where current practices limit lifecycle value, and practical ideas that SPE members can begin applying immediately in the planning & execution workflow process optimization and technology adoption.

Well construction responsibility is a continuous value stream from scoping concepts, through planning and execution to abandonment. Yet in practice, we are still constrained by silos that fragment decisions, data, and accountability in this cycle. The challenge is not that these silos exist. We have been actively challenging them for years, but they continue to persist despite our efforts. Today, that tension is becoming more visible.

This is a dual session - a focus on organization and a focus on technology. Each portion of the session will open a different lens on the same challenge, examining how structures, roles, and decision flows influence integration, and how data, platforms, and AI are reshaping what can be achieved. Setting the stage for a joint discussion on where these paths converge and where they may conflict.

Individually, these sessions will surface different perspectives. Together, they will create a single, combined view and an integrated perspective to highlight the areas of focus that will enable a more integrated, adaptive, and value-driven lifecycle well construction.

Join this discussion as we challenge conventional thinking. Discussions could include:

• Are we truly breaking down silos, or just redesigning them?
• What balance between organizational design and technology could transform well construction?

Despite continuous advances in drilling, completions, and digital technologies, lifecycle value in well construction continues to leak in ways the industry does not fully understand or consistently address. This Forum brings together operators, service providers, and technology leaders to examine that gap—and to challenge the assumptions embedded in how wells are planned, delivered, and managed over time.

Session 6 brings the Forum together to integrate structured outputs from Sessions 1 through 6 into a coherent system-level understanding of how lifecycle value in well construction is created, degraded, or lost.

Rather than recapping individual discussions or proposing solutions, the session will focus on identifying the patterns, tensions, and structural drivers that consistently shape outcomes across the lifecycle. This discussion includes examining how decisions made in one phase fail to persist into the next, how contracts and key performance indicators (KPIs) influence behavior, and how operating models and handoffs affect accountability and continuity over time.

The session will connect insights across technical, organizational, commercial, and digital dimensions to surface a small number of integrated observations that clarify root causes rather than symptoms. Particular attention will be given to areas of divergence and unresolved tension, where differing perspectives highlight fundamental trade-offs within the system.

This session will not produce a formal set of recommendations or a defined roadmap. Instead, it will establish a clearer shared understanding of how the industry is operating, along with the key conditions and dependencies that must be addressed for lifecycle value to be more consistently preserved.

Participants will leave with a more precise language for discussing lifecycle value, a sharper set of mental models for interpreting system behavior, and a stronger foundation for evaluating potential changes within their own organizations.