U.S. oil companies use AI for faster shale drilling, mitigating OPEC production cuts
World Oil (Bloomberg) – From a dark Houston control room, Rafael Guedes watched on a monitor as a robot took charge of a drilling rig in a North Dakota oil field, locking out the human operator. Glowing red boxes lit up the screen as an artificial intelligence program took over the distant Nabors Industries Ltd. rig, beaming instructions by satellite