DQ Intel
The first agentic intelligence desk for upstream drilling

Know about the well before the tender exists.

Six AI agents read the market around the clock, verify every signal, find the decision maker and tell you who is going to drill, 12 to 36 months before spud. While there is still time to be specified in.

  • Derrick
  • Vera
  • Rex
  • Ada
  • Iris
  • Quill
  • Derrick, Vera, Rex, Ada, Iris and Quill. Your desk, working while you sleep.
Derrick is reading the wire live
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Kistos sanctioned Balder Next New Wells project with seven wells and multi-year rig programme

Operator: Kistos HoldingsGeo: Norway, North Sea, Balder fieldStage: sanctioned
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Kistos sanctioned the Balder Next New Wells project to drill seven wells targeting approximately 8.6 million barrels of oil equivalent net. Startup expected by end of 2027. via web search

Provenance pendingTimeline
Prime Lead

Vår Energi awards three-year drilling campaign to Deepsea Bergen

Operator: Vår EnergiGeo: NorwayStage: rig booked
~17mo
to spud

Vår Energi has secured the Odfjell Drilling semi-submersible Deepsea Bergen for a three-year drilling campaign starting early 2028, valued at $518 million including mobilisation. via web search ✓ verified

Derrick spotted · 05:53Vera verified · 05:54Rex found the drilling lead · 05:56Ada rated Prime · 05:56Timeline
Watch List

Valeura and PTTEP near FID on Bussabong gas development in Gulf of Thailand

Operator: Valeura EnergyGeo: Gulf of Thailand, Block G3/65Stage: pre-FID
~18mo
to spud

PTTEP has received Thai government approval to transfer a 40% working interest in two offshore Gulf of Thailand blocks to Valeura Energy under a strategic farm-in agreement. via RSS ✓ verified

Derrick spotted · 05:41Vera verified · 05:42Rex found the drilling lead · 05:44Ada rated Watch · 05:44Timeline
Where the desk is looking right now

Every basin. Every operator. Every ten minutes.

Each light is a real drilling project the desk is following today, placed where it will be drilled. Gold is a Prime Lead: funded, 12 to 36 months from spud, with the decision maker on file.

Prime Lead~15mo to spud
Kistos sanctioned Balder Next New Wells project with seven wells and multi-year r...Kistos Holdings · Norway, North Sea, Balder field
12 Prime Leads 42 on the Watch ListReal projects from the live desk, 17 September 2026. Point at a light.
0+drilling projects tracked
0+verified signals, each with its source
0+operators on file
0+rigs followed to their next contract
Why timing wins

By the time it is a tender, the deal is already done.

Wells are won in the quiet years before anyone publishes anything: when the operator is choosing concepts, engineers and suppliers. DQ Intel puts every project on one clock, months to first spud, and tells you which window it is in.

24months to first spud
FID taken. The money is in.DQ Intel: Prime Lead, with the decision maker

Early ground

More than three years out. No well in sight yet. The desk keeps it on file and watches for the move that makes it real.

12 to 36 months: where deals are won

The operator is choosing concepts, engineers and suppliers. When the money lands, the desk calls it a Prime Lead and gives you the person to call. This is the only window where a conversation changes what gets specified.

Inside 12 months: in the news

The rig is booked and the tender is public. Your competitors read the same headline. The desk marks it and stops sending it.

How it works

Not a dashboard. A desk of six agents who report to you.

Each agent owns one job and hands its work to the next. Follow one real signal, Kistos sanctioning seven wells at Balder, from a line in the trade press to a drafted email.

Derrick

Derrick Signal Scout

Trade press, company releases, regulators, fleet status reports and targeted searches on every operator you watch. He matches what he reads against a library of drilling signals and throws out the noise before it costs you a second.

One round of 17 sources. Most of what Derrick reads is thrown out before any model is called.
  • trade pressCrude slips as inventories build for a third weekrejected: no well
  • investing.comKistos sanctions Balder Next New Wells: seven wells, multi-year rig programmesignal: sanctioned · wells · rig programme
  • company releaseTopsides lift completed at a North Sea platformrejected: no drilling scope
  • upstreamonline.comShell takes FID on Malikai Phase 3 deepwater projectsignal: FID · deepwater · development wells
What you get access to

Seven views of one living picture of who is going to drill.

These are the desk's own screens, not mock-ups. The leads in them are real and were live on the day this page was written.

Your morning, sorted

Every lead that matters, with the receipts.

A short, ranked feed of drilling projects in your window. Each card says who, where, how many months to spud and why it matters to what you sell.

  • Prime Leads in gold: funded, 12 to 36 months from spud, matched to your segment
  • A chain of custody on every card: which agent did what, and when
  • One tap to the source. Nothing is published without one
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Signal Feed

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Prime Lead

Kistos sanctioned Balder Next New Wells project with seven wells and multi-year rig programme

Operator: Kistos HoldingsGeo: Norway, North Sea, Balder fieldStage: sanctioned
~15mo
to spud

Kistos sanctioned the Balder Next New Wells project to drill seven wells targeting approximately 8.6 million barrels of oil equivalent net. Startup expected by end of 2027. via web search ✓ verified

Derrick spotted · 05:12Vera verified · 05:13Rex found the drilling lead · 05:15Ada rated Prime · 05:15Timeline
Watch List

Valeura and PTTEP near FID on Bussabong gas development in Gulf of Thailand

Operator: Valeura EnergyGeo: Gulf of Thailand, Block G3/65Stage: pre-FID
~18mo
to spud

PTTEP has received Thai government approval to transfer a 40% working interest in two offshore Gulf of Thailand blocks to Valeura Energy under a strategic farm-in agreement. via RSS ✓ verified

Derrick spotted · 05:41Vera verified · 05:42Rex found the drilling lead · 05:44Ada rated Watch · 05:44Timeline
Live desk data, 17 September 2026
A first for the industry

Newsletters tell you what happened. A BD hire tells you who they know. The desk tells you who to call, and when.

Newsletters and databasesAnother BD hireDQ Intel
When you hear about a wellWhen the tender is publishedWhen someone in their network mentions it12 to 36 months before spud, the day the money lands
Is it real?You checkThey check, when they have timeVerified against its source before you ever see it
Who to callA company nameWhoever they already knowThe drilling, subsurface and procurement leads, by name
When the project movesYou find out in the next issueYou find out if they noticeRe-rated within the hour, and you are told why
CoverageWhat an editor chose to printOne region, office hoursEvery source, every watched operator, every ten minutes
Built to be trusted

AI that shows its working.

The fastest way to lose a sale is to call someone about a project that does not exist. So the desk is built around four rules it cannot break.

01

No invented leads. Ever.

No reachable source, no lead. Vera rejects what she cannot verify and logs the reason. A quiet, correct feed beats a noisy one.

02

Show your working.

Every lead carries its chain of custody: which agent did what, at what time, from which source. One tap re-runs the verification.

03

No invented people.

Rex only names a decision maker he can source, and only gives an email he has verified. When he cannot, he says contact pending.

04

A person is always in the loop.

Quill drafts and waits. Nothing is sent in your name until you press the button. Your own curated leads always outrank the agents.

Why DQ

The rules were written by people who sell into wells.

DQ Intel comes from DQ Offshore in Aberdeen, a commercial intelligence and business development firm whose team has spent more than 60 years in the offshore and energy industries. For years they have done this by hand for their clients: finding projects far ahead of the tender, qualifying them, and making the introduction.

The desk is that method, running every ten minutes instead of every fortnight. What counts as a Prime Lead, when a window has closed, which change is worth waking you for: those are Quintin Milne's definitions, not a model's guess.

The only way this business works is from when they are drilling.
Quintin MilneManaging Director, DQ Offshore
  • Aberdeenbuilt inside the drilling supply chain
  • 60+ yearscombined offshore and energy experience
  • Every 10 minutesthe desk reads the market again
Access

Sized to your team. Priced on a call.

Every plan is set up around what you sell and where, so the first thing we do is show you the desk on your own market.

Individual

One seller, one patch
  • One seat
  • Signal Feed, Changes and Prospects for your segment
  • Daily digest email
  • Decision makers on Prime Leads
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Enterprise

Several product lines or regions
  • Multiple segments, each with its own feed and angles
  • A signal library tuned to what you sell
  • Your branding on the desk and the digest
  • Onboarding with the DQ team
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Book a demo

See tomorrow's leads on your own market.

Give us the operators and regions you sell into. We will open the live desk and show you what it already knows about them: the projects, the horizons, the people.

  • Thirty minutes on the live desk, no slides
  • Your operators, your regions, your segment
  • Leave with the Prime Leads that match what you sell
Questions

Straight answers.

What does agentic actually mean here?

It means the work is done, not just surfaced. Six AI agents each own one job, the way a real intelligence desk would split it: scouting, verifying, finding people, analysing, briefing and drafting. They hand work to each other, check each other, recover from their own failures and leave a record of everything they did. You read the result.

How is this different from a news alert or a tender database?

Alerts and databases tell you what has been published. By then the rig is booked and every competitor has the same headline. DQ Intel follows each project from its first sign of life, works out how far it is from first spud and whether the money is in, and tells you while the operator is still choosing who to work with.

Where does the information come from?

Public sources: trade press, company and regulator releases, contractor fleet status reports, conference and licensing news, plus targeted searches on every operator you ask the desk to watch. Every lead links to its source.

Can I trust what an AI tells me?

You should not have to. That is why nothing reaches you without a verifiable source, why every step is logged where you can see it, and why the rules that decide what counts as a Prime Lead were written by people who have sold into wells for decades, not by a model.

Who is behind it?

DQ Offshore in Aberdeen, a commercial intelligence and business development firm for the energy sector, led by Quintin Milne. The desk automates the way DQ has found and qualified drilling leads for its clients for years. The platform is built by 9point0.

Book a demo

See the desk on your own market.

Three quick steps, so the thirty minutes are about the wells you want to win.

  1. 1You
  2. 2Your market
  3. 3The fit
Thirty minutes, on the live desk. No slides.