Weatherford Launches Industrial Intelligence at FWRD 2025

HOUSTON, Oct. 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Weatherford International plc (NASDAQ: WFRD) (“Weatherford” or the “Company”) today announced the launch of Weatherford Industrial Intelligence, a breakthrough digital portfolio unveiled at the Company’s flagship FWRD 2025 Technology Conference in Houston.

Weatherford sees the next industry-defining leap in the fusion of physical operations with data foundations and cross-disciplinary execution. Weatherford Industrial Intelligence is a portfolio that moves beyond simply collecting data or controlling assets by contextualizing the physical world through physics-based and data-driven software. This approach delivers actionable insights for every end user, from engineers to executives, resulting in greater reliability, improved efficiency, and elevated performance across the energy value chain.

Girish Saligram, President and Chief Executive Officer of Weatherford, commented, “Weatherford Industrial Intelligence empowers our customers to accelerate adoption, regardless of infrastructure maturity, by integrating our software, our partners’ software, and our customers’ systems with any hardware. With domain intelligence embedded at the edge and grounded in decades of engineering expertise, we deliver automation that drives safer operations, greater efficiency, and stronger returns.”

Key Technology Highlights
At the forefront of these advancements is the integration of Modern Edge, which provides operators with the ability to scale work processes efficiently while maintaining economic returns. This approach empowers customers to modernize their edge operations, facilitate autonomous production, and offers flexibility to expand operations, while optimizing resource usage and reducing costs.

• Weatherford Autonomous Surveillance Platform (WASP) – Provides full-time remote visibility above, below, and on-surface infrastructure and assets using a network of distributed fiber optic systems, cameras, and IoT devices.
• R2TUs Edge Device Family – Family of Edge Devices with embedded physics and empirical models, as well as network models that are self-connected and powered to deliver closed-loop automation in the field.
• MetaFlow Virtual Flow Meter (VFM) – Delivers accurate, real-time flow measurements using AI and physics-based models in conjunction with existing and new flow meters.