ADNOC to Become 1st Energy Firm to Deploy OpenAI Frontier
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Abu Dhabi National Oil Co PJSC (ADNOC) said Monday it had signed an agreement that will make it the first energy company to use OpenAI Frontier, a software platform that allows large organizations to build and deploy fleets of AI agents for workflows that require coordination among employees.
The agreement also includes G42, which collaborated with ADNOC, AIQ and Microsoft for large language model and agentic AI platform ENERGYai. ENERGYai has already been deployed across ADNOC's upstream value chain, having been trained on over 50 years of ADNOC data, according to ADNOC.
Beyond deploying OpenAI Frontier, ADNOC said the new partnership announced at the ADIPEC energy industry gathering in Abu Dhabi will "develop and deploy a bespoke decision intelligence capability using OpenAI Frontier, combining OpenAI's latest generation frontier models with ADNOC's proprietary industrial data and expertise, deployed on G42's sovereign AI infrastructure in the UAE and with human experts retaining oversight of consequential decisions".
"Where ADNOC's existing AI, including ENERGYai, builds deep intelligence about its reservoirs, assets and operations, OpenAI Frontier will connect that intelligence across the business, so operational, capital and commercial decisions can be made together rather than one after another", ADNOC said.
OpenAI Frontier will help ADNOC "transform field master planning from a sequence of separate subsurface, facilities and economic studies into a single, integrated decision", ADNOC said.
"Building on ENERGYai's reservoir-level intelligence, OpenAI's advanced reasoning models will integrate decades of data across thousands of wells, multiple stacked reservoirs and hundreds of surface facilities together with capital, cost and commercial considerations, to prepare and optimize full-field development master plans at unprecedented speed, scale and depth.
"The step change is not only speed but scope: rather than optimizing each reservoir or facility on its own, the plan is optimized for the whole field at once".
Advertisement - Scroll to continueOpenAI Frontier will also "connect intelligence across ADNOC's integrated value chain, from production and processing to refining, logistics, sales and trading, where decisions today often rely on different systems, data and priorities", ADNOC said.
"Interconnected AI agents will continuously forecast crude oil supply, demand, prices and margins, predict their impacts before they occur, and weigh the commercial and operational impact of every decision as one integrated process".
Under the agreement, ADNOC will also deploy OpenAI's Daybreak Blue initiative to help cyber-security teams identify vulnerabilities. "All solutions will operate within ADNOC's oversight, ensuring that proprietary data and critical infrastructure remain protected", ADNOC said.
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said, "By combining frontier AI, sovereign infrastructure and industry expertise, this first-of-its-kind partnership will help ADNOC move faster, operate more efficiently and make better decisions across the energy value chain".
"The agreement is the latest milestone in ADNOC's AI and robotics strategy, which already encompasses more than 200 AI applications and 70 robotics use cases deployed or under development", ADNOC said.
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