From the AFE to the outturn.

Evidence your team can check.

Every well outcome makes the next well smarter, but only if the evidence behind each insight can be trusted. This issue follows that thread from cost to integrity.

In this issue

AFE Intelligence: catch cost drift while decisions can still change

Cost overruns are often discovered at close-out, when it may be too late to make a difference. Keeping track of budgets, estimate revisions and invoices across the well delivery process can make it difficult to see where costs are heading.

AFE Intelligence by AssureLens brings cost visibility across every phase of well delivery, comparing budgets and actual spending against benchmarks to improve forecasts and identify opportunities to optimise costs.

It reviews AFEs, estimate revisions and invoices, flagging variances and items that need closer attention, with people making every decision.

ExpertHub is live with rp² and Drillers.com

What if the energy industry’s best minds were available when you needed them most? That’s the idea behind ExpertHub, launched by SwarmLens, rp² and Drillers.com. ExpertHub connects organisations with verified energy professionals for project-based, contract and permanent engagements. As part of the AssureLens ecosystem, it also brings specialist expertise into AI workflows, helping teams review and validate AI-generated insights with real-world engineering knowledge.

685 documents in. About 447 engineer-approved insights out.

At Oil & Gas AI USA 2026 (October 8), Ram Pillai, Co-Founder and Solution Lead at SwarmLens, showed how historical drilling reports become verified, reusable knowledge for planning the next well.

Harish Pillai, Ram Pillai and Matt Lewis at Oil & Gas AI USA 2026, Houston.

Introducing WellLens, our upcoming well-integrity solution

Proving wells are safely sealed is critical for carbon storage and decommissioning in the UK North Sea. Yet, vital evidence is buried in decades of fragmented records, and critical knowledge remains in the minds of experienced engineers.

WellLens by AssureLens brings the evidence together to help operators assess well integrity, identify gaps and make informed decisions.

Sources: NSTA, UKCS Decommissioning Cost and Performance Update 2026; SPE Aberdeen, CO₂ Storage 2024 (as cited in the WellLens Opportunity Overview, October 2026).

From well files to checked, linked evidence. Multi-agent AI supports engineer judgement; engineers and the operator keep all accountability.

Want to help shape its development? Reach out for collaboration opportunities.

Time is the budget: our first research paper

A well can finish under its AFE and still lose time. Hari Menath and Mini Mathachan Alappatt reconcile drilling hours and well-cost variance exactly, as a bridge from the AFE to the final number. The catch: the benchmark decides how a variance splits between a generous plan and slow execution. Open access (CC BY 4.0), with reproducible scripts.

Read the preprint  |  LinkedIn post

Welcome to the advisory board, Gordon Duncan

Gordon Duncan Advisory Board, Well Integrity 45+ years of global oilfield experience “I joined SwarmLens to turn real-time collective data into actionable, high-impact insight. SwarmLens brings order to the noise. The ability to harness real-time collective data and turn it into clear, actionable, high-impact predictive insight is easily its best feature.”

More than 45 years of global oilfield experience in barrier standards, risk management and well interventions, now helping shape AssureLens well-integrity capabilities.

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