“We’re ready to deliver any ​production capacity that ADNOC needs,” Youssef Salem said in an interview, referring to state-owned ​parent firm the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company.

The UAE, which quit OPEC ⁠on May 1 to free itself from production quotas, could boost its output capacity to ​six million bpd if necessary, Energy Minister Suhail al-Mazrouei said last year.

ADNOC Drilling has outpaced the ​UAE’s accelerated capacity goals, reaching 142 deployed rigs by 2025, well ahead of a previous target of 127 rigs by 2030, Salem said.

“We have multiple providers from China and elsewhere to bring in the rigs, we ​have the technologies, we have multiple partnerships with Baker Hughes, Schlumberger, Patterson, others, we have ​the teams. So we have everything we need to kind of produce any form of demand from ADNOC,” ‌he ⁠said, noting that first-quarter well deliveries rose from a year earlier.

The Abu Dhabi-listed firm has shielded its operations from recent shipping disruptions and tensions in the Gulf stemming from the US-Israeli war on Iran, he said.

“We had no impact at all from the events,” Salem said. “All the ​rigs kept working. We ​kept the availability ⁠of 98% of the rigs throughout the quarter.”

To bypass the Strait of Hormuz, the company relies on land routes, the east coast port of ​Fujairah and a two- to three-month inventory buffer.

ADNOC Upstream CEO Musabbeh ​al-Kaabi told ⁠Reuters this month that the company expects a final investment decision this year on its unconventional gas project with TotalEnergies, followed soon after by a call on a separate unconventional oil project with ⁠EOG ​Resources and Petronas.

Drilling is rapidly advancing to support these ​milestones, Salem said, with nearly 100 first-phase wells completed and more than 60 hydraulically fractured. EOG’s joining the oil project ​after initial results was a positive signal, he added.