Digital empowerment enables overseas rotary drilling rigs to solve construction management and cost challenges

    During the large-scale advancement of overseas infrastructure projects, the construction of rotary drilling rigs faces challenges such as remote locations, complex geology, inconvenient equipment maintenance, and difficulties in cost control. The deep integration of digital technologies is gradually transforming the construction model of rotary drilling rigs. Through intelligent construction data management, digital lifecycle management of equipment, and precise cost optimization, it supports efficient and low-cost operations of rotary drilling rigs overseas, driving the upgrade of offshore pile foundation construction toward intelligent and refined standards.

    Intelligent Management of Construction Data Strengthens the Foundation of Quality and Efficiency in Overseas Construction. Overseas rotary drilling involves complex geological conditions, where traditional methods rely on manual experience, often leading to issues like depth deviation and borehole collapse. Data recording is cumbersome and lacks traceability. The application of digital technology enables real-time collection, transmission, and analysis of construction data. By equipping drilling rigs with sensors and smart terminals, core parameters such as drilling speed, torque, depth, and mud slurry density are accurately captured and uploaded to a cloud platform. This allows managers to remotely monitor the entire construction process in real time, promptly identify anomalies, and issue adjustment instructions. Additionally, big data analysis compares construction parameters under different geological conditions, forming a standardized operation database to support future similar projects. This effectively reduces human errors, enhances construction precision and efficiency, and addresses the challenges of remote control in overseas construction.

    Digital management of the entire lifecycle of equipment, reducing overseas operation and maintenance costs and downtime risks. The overseas rotary drilling rig operation sites are scattered, and equipment operation and maintenance are greatly limited by geography and logistics. The traditional manual inspection mode is inefficient and the hidden danger investigation is not timely, which can easily lead to equipment failure and shutdown, affecting project progress. The application of digital management system realizes the full process control from equipment entry, daily operation and maintenance to scrapping and recycling, real-time monitoring of equipment operation status, accurate warning of potential failures of key components such as engines and hydraulic systems, advance scheduling of maintenance plans, and reducing unplanned downtime. In addition, by integrating equipment operation and maintenance records and accessory consumption data through digital platforms, optimizing maintenance plans and accessory reserves, avoiding component backlog and shortage, and relying on remote operation and maintenance technology, experts can provide remote guidance for troubleshooting, reducing the difficulty and cost of overseas on-site maintenance, and ensuring stable equipment operation.

    Digitalization drives precise cost optimization and enhances the profitability of overseas projects. The cost control of overseas infrastructure projects involves multiple dimensions such as equipment, labor, and consumables. The traditional cost accounting model is extensive and difficult to achieve precise control. Digital technology integrates construction data, equipment operation and maintenance data, and consumables consumption data to build an integrated cost accounting system, accurately calculating the cost expenditures of each equipment and construction process, and clarifying the key points of cost control. At the same time, through data analysis, optimize the construction plan, allocate equipment and manpower reasonably, reduce consumables waste and manpower redundancy, such as dynamically adjusting the drilling rig operation schedule according to the construction progress, optimizing the drilling tool usage cycle, and reducing consumables consumption; Optimizing maintenance plans through equipment operation and maintenance data, reducing maintenance cost investment, and achieving precise control and efficient optimization of overseas rotary drilling rig construction costs.

    In summary, digital empowerment has become a key path for overseas rotary drilling rigs to break through construction bottlenecks and enhance core competitiveness. The intelligent construction data, digital equipment management, and precise cost control not only effectively solve the pain points of remote control, inconvenient operation and maintenance, and high costs in overseas rotary drilling rig construction, but also promote the transformation and upgrading of pile foundation construction mode, providing strong support for the high-quality promotion of overseas infrastructure projects. In the future, digital technology will be deeply integrated with rotary drilling rigs, giving rise to more efficient and intelligent construction modes.