Nabors iRig^® drilling systems feature a man-less rig floor, fully-automated drill pipe handling and casing running systems, a closed-loop system, as well as automatic control of downhole directional drilling. 

While expensive deepwater rigs have similar features, there are many challenges to designing such a system for land rigs. A land system must be compact, readily portable, relatively low cost to build and operate, and sufficiently rugged to withstand frequent transport. 

Featuring a full robotic drill floor system, the Nabors PACE^®-R800 rack and pinion drilling rig was the company’s first newbuild iRig^® unit. 

Other newbuild and existing PACE^® rig units can be easily upgraded to iRig^® units, with the addition of the iRacker^® autonomous tubular handling system.