About Drilling Sentinel

Evidence over endorsements.

Drilling Sentinel Ltd is a UK-registered company building real-time risk classification for drilling operations. The platform separates detection from delivery, classifies the mechanism rather than the threshold, and publishes the supporting evidence with every classification.

Mission & vision

Why we’re building this.

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Mission

Reduce the non-productive time that drives drilling cost. Most wellbore-related NPT — packoff, lost circulation, instability, geometry restriction — develops in the multi-channel signature well before any single-channel threshold fires. Drilling Sentinel classifies that developing risk earlier, identifies the mechanism, and backs every call with the evidence behind it — so crews can act while there is still time to act.

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Vision

A drilling industry where avoidable NPT is caught before it escalates and every risk decision is supported by transparent, reproducible evidence — not a black-box alarm. Where physics-informed AI works alongside the crew across the life of the well: planning against offsets, classifying risk live on the rig, and closing the loop in post-well review — all on one auditable record.

Principles

How we operate.

01

Evidence over opinion

Every claim is reproducible from data — measured against labeled ground truth, not asserted.

02

Physics-informed

Models are constrained by drilling physics, not pattern-matching alone.

03

Auditable

Every classification carries its evidence, hash-chained and exportable.

The pilot pathway

A four-stage pilot, on your timeline.

1

Data review

Historical wells reviewed. Performance baseline established. Success metrics agreed in writing.

2

Shadow mode

Sentinel runs alongside existing monitoring. Alerts visible to the Sentinel team only. Zero operational change.

3

Pilot well

Live deployment on one well. Embedded engineer. Lead-time tracking. Phase-end false-positive review.

4

Expansion

Fleet rollout. Calibrated thresholds. Dedicated support. Quarterly performance review.

Company Man

On-shift decision support.

Real-time classification with the supporting evidence for each decision; independent verification alongside the directional driller.

Drilling Engineer

Plan, monitor, review.

Offset planning pre-spud, real-time classification and ROP optimization on-shift, and post-well analysis to close the loop.

Operations Manager

Programme oversight.

Fleet map, leaderboard and programme KPIs — risk surfaced ahead of the operations call.

Operator roles

Start with one section.

Pilot enquiries, commercial discussions and technical diligence all begin at the same address.