In the era of advanced technology, revolutionary innovations in drilling are being propelled forward.

As oil and gas exploration and development progressively shift towards unconventional, deepwater, deep-layer, and polar regions, the decline in resource quality and deterioration of operational environments have been further exacerbated. The widespread consensus within the energy industry is to continuously enhance the quality while reducing costs of oil and gas exploration and development through the implementation of intelligent drilling technology. By integrating big data, artificial intelligence, IoT, cloud computing, information engineering, and control engineering theories into the drilling process, it can acquire functions such as perception, learning, transmission operations, and feedback mechanisms. This science-fiction-like intelligent drilling technology not only significantly reduces labor intensity but also enhances drilling efficiency. It holds promising prospects for development and is crucial for advancing oil and gas exploration capabilities. It is anticipated that semi-autonomous control operation mode will be achieved in intelligent drilling by 2025 with fully autonomous unmanned drilling completion operation mode expected by 2050.