SLB will supply its DrillPlan coherent well planning and engineering solutions to TotalEnergies for 15 years under a new agreement covering the operator's global upstream portfolio. The contract moves TotalEnergies toward a standardised digital drilling planning environment that connects subsurface insights directly with well planning and engineering work.

The deal builds on the two companies' long-standing collaboration and signals a broader industry shift: operators are consolidating internally developed digital tools onto scalable, interoperable commercial platforms to improve engineering quality and well construction execution.

What will DrillPlan change for TotalEnergies' well teams?

The platform integrates the data streams that well construction teams normally handle in separate systems:

• Offset well data
• Trajectory designs
• Casing and completion inputs
• Planning assumptions used throughout the well construction process

Cross-functional teams will work from a common foundation of data, plans and assumptions rather than reconciling disconnected documents. SLB says the environment is designed to connect workflows, integrate TotalEnergies' custom processes, scale across operations, and allow ongoing deployment of new digital technologies as they mature.

Why scale matters

"Operators are increasingly looking for scalable technologies that can support more consistent planning decisions across large and diverse portfolios," said Rakesh Jaggi, president of SLB's Digital business.

"This agreement demonstrates how customers are moving toward digital solutions that improve consistency, strengthen collaboration and provide a foundation for future workflow innovation," Jaggi added.

The logic behind a 15-year term is portfolio breadth. TotalEnergies drills across basins spanning every continent, and a single planning environment promises consistent engineering decisions whether the well sits in the North Sea, West Africa or the Middle East. SLB positions DrillPlan as a bridge: it integrates established customer workflows within a broader enterprise digital ecosystem rather than forcing operators to abandon internally developed tools.

Commercial platform plus in-house expertise

The agreement reflects a growing industry pattern of combining domain expertise embedded in internally developed digital solutions with the scale, resilience and interoperability of commercial platforms. For TotalEnergies, the payoff is a standardised planning environment across a diverse global portfolio. For SLB, it anchors DrillPlan as a long-tenured enterprise deployment at one of the world's largest operators, with joint domain expertise from both companies feeding continuous improvement over the contract's 15-year life.

Neither company disclosed the contract value or deployment timeline. The watch items: how quickly TotalEnergies standardises its global well planning on DrillPlan, and which operators follow with comparable enterprise-scale digital well construction agreements.