Transforming Well Construction with AI: Corva and YPF Advance from Real-Time Intelligence Toward Autonomy

Our renewed agreement with YPF builds on years of close collaboration to advance real-time operations across drilling, completions, and interventions, and take the next step toward increasingly autonomous well construction.

The most meaningful technology transformations don’t happen through technology alone. They happen when teams bring together operational expertise, a shared ambition, and the willingness to keep pushing what’s possible.

That has defined our collaboration with YPF.

We’re excited to enter the next phase of that relationship, building on years of work to transform how well construction operations are managed through real-time data, advanced analytics, and artificial intelligence.

Since the creation of YPF’s Real-Time Integration Center (RTIC) for Drilling and Interventions, Corva has become one of the core technology platforms supporting drilling, completions, and intervention operations within a connected digital environment.

Over that time, our teams have worked closely to move the RTIC beyond traditional operational monitoring and toward a more active model of operations management. Specialists and field teams can see performance as it unfolds, identify potential risks earlier, and access the operational context they need to make faster, more informed decisions.

What started with greater visibility has evolved into something much more powerful: an operating model built around real-time intelligence.

And now, we’re ready to take it further.

Seeing what is happening is important. Understanding what it means, what could happen next, and where action can make a difference is where real-time data begins to change operations.

That progression has been central to what we’ve built with YPF.

By bringing field data, operational workflows, engineering expertise, and advanced analytics together through the RTIC, teams can evaluate performance while operations are underway rather than waiting for post-well analysis to understand what happened.

The result is a more connected way of operating. Field teams, engineers, and specialists can work from shared operational context, identify where attention is needed, and apply insights while there is still time to influence the outcome.

As YPF continues to scale its operations in Vaca Muerta, that becomes increasingly important. The opportunity is not simply to generate more insight, but to make operational intelligence repeatable and scalable across more wells, rigs, and teams.

Our shared vision is to continue establishing the RTIC as a digital operating system for well construction, connecting people, processes, operational data, and AI within a common environment.

Achieving that vision requires more than deploying technology. It requires deep collaboration between the people who understand the operation and the teams building the technology to support it. That ability to learn from one another, solve real operational challenges, and continually build on what works is what has made our relationship with YPF so meaningful.

Together, we’re creating a model where drilling, completions, and intervention workflows are more connected, engineering and field teams operate with shared context, and intelligence from one operation can help inform the next.

This next phase is about taking everything we’ve learned and built and putting it to work at greater scale, turning real-time intelligence into operational impact and creating new possibilities for how wells are constructed.

As YPF continues its growth in Vaca Muerta, we’re excited to keep pushing those possibilities alongside their team and advancing toward well construction operations that are increasingly connected, predictive, and autonomous.

Read the full announcement from YPF