The web-based Virtual Rig is designed to familiarize members of industry, government and education with environmentally sustainable technologies that are now available or are under development in the oil and gas exploration and production operations.

Visitors will be able to navigate around and through the rig as they interact with cost-effective technologies that reduce the footprint of drilling operations. By interfacing with Rhonda and Ralph Roughneck, users can tour or explore the rig site as they compare the 'old ways' with newer technologies such as closed-loop mud systems, small footprint rigs, advanced hydraulic fracturing systems and high efficiency water handling and processing systems.