The oil and gas industry continues to face increasingly complex drilling environments, requiring a stronger integration between drilling engineering, geomechanics, digital technologies, and operational excellence to safely deliver high-performance wells.

Across Latin America and the Caribbean, operators are developing innovative solutions to overcome geological uncertainty, optimize drilling performance, strengthen well integrity, and accelerate technology adoption while maintaining cost competitiveness.

This workshop will bring together operators, service companies, technology providers, universities, and research institutions to exchange practical experiences and discuss the latest advances in drilling and geomechanics. Through technical presentations and interactive discussions, participants will explore lessons learned from drilling campaigns across the region, geomechanical challenges affecting well planning and execution, continuous improvement methodologies, geohazard identification and modeling, well barrier integrity, drilling automation and robotics, digital technologies, and emerging solutions for well construction.

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