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AIQ and SLB to deploy Agentic AI across ADNOC's subsurface operations
8 Aug 2025 19:41
A. SREENIVASA REDDY (ABU DHABI)Abu Dhabi's AI specialist AIQ and global energy technology firm SLB have announced a strategic collaboration to accelerate the development and deployment of the ENERGYai agentic AI solution across ADNOC's subsurface operations. This was announced in a joint statement by both the companies. ENERGYai, developed by AIQ in partnership with ADNOC experts and leading technology providers including G42 and Microsoft, merges large language models (LLMs) with advanced agentic AI customised for upstream energy workflows. In trial runs using only 15% of ADNOC's subsurface data from two fields, the platform's seismic AI agent achieved a tenfold increase in the speed of seismic interpretation and a 70% improvement in announcement builds on AIQ's $340 million contract with ADNOC, awarded in March 2025, to roll out ENERGYai and associated AI solutions across ADNOC's upstream operations over three years. The programme aims to automate complex tasks, reduce decision-making time, enhance productivity, and help ADNOC realise its vision of becoming the world's most AI-enabled energy company.'ADNOC is on a mission to become the world's most AI-enabled energy company by maximising the potential of AI to drive efficiency and value creation across our operations,' said Musabbeh Al Kaabi, CEO of ADNOC Upstream, at the time of awarding the contract. 'We look forward to working with AIQ to deploy ENERGYai across the upstream business, consolidating our position as a responsible and reliable supplier of energy to global markets.'The wide-scale deployment follows a successful proof-of-concept phase and will begin with five fully operational AI agents supporting key tasks in subsurface disciplines such as geology, seismic exploration, and reservoir modelling. These agents will be embedded across several ADNOC assets starting Q4 2025, with plans to scale to thousands of wells across 28 producing fields.'This AIQ-SLB partnership reflects our vision to harness AI for energy optimisation, and we are enthusiastic that SLB shares this outlook,' said Dennis Jol, CEO of AIQ. 'The collaboration enables the development of sophisticated AI workflows that integrate seamlessly with ADNOC's infrastructure, driving efficiency, scalability, and innovation at every stage of the energy lifecycle.'The collaboration will be powered by SLB's Lumi™ data and AI platform, which supports seamless data access, workflow integration, and scalable deployment. SLB now joins Microsoft and G42 as key implementation partners in the ENERGYai initiative.'Our collaborations with AIQ have already delivered innovative solutions, and now we are supporting the foundation for the next era of intelligent energy operations,' said Rakesh Jaggi, President of Digital & Integration at SLB. 'This agentic AI solution is set to drive long-term value and operational resilience across ADNOC's energy value chain.'This partnership follows a previous agreement in March 2025, where AIQ and SLB collaborated to integrate SLB's Agora™ edge AI and IoT solutions with AIQ's autonomous well control tools to boost upstream efficiency, reduce emissions, and improve worker ENERGYai platform is being positioned as a transformative digital tool for ADNOC's sustainability goals, helping reduce carbon intensity and operational costs while accelerating data-driven decision-making across one of the world's largest upstream portfolios.
AIQ is an Abu Dhabi based AI joint venture between ADNOC and Presight, a G42 company. SLB, based in Houston, Texas, US is a global technology company serving the energy sector, with operations in more than 100 countries.
