OpenAI, G42, and ADNOC have entered a multi-year partnership agreement to implement OpenAI’s Frontier technology across sections of ADNOC’s energy value chain.
The deployment will run on UAE-based sovereign AI computing infrastructure provided by G42, bringing together OpenAI’s frontier models with ADNOC’s operational knowledge and industrial records.
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ADNOC stated that human specialists will maintain supervision over consequential decisions.
UAE Industry and Advanced Technology Minister and ADNOC managing director and Group CEO Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber said: “Through this landmark partnership with OpenAI and G42, ADNOC is taking a major step towards connecting intelligence across our entire business, combining world-leading AI with decades of industrial expertise to make better decisions, unlock greater value and strengthen energy security.”
Initial work under the tie-up will target two primary use cases. The first involves field master planning, merging subsurface, facility, and economic analyses into a unified development-planning procedure.
This system will utilise decades of data covering thousands of wells, multiple reservoirs, and hundreds of surface installations, in combination with commercial, capital, and expenditure considerations.
For the second use case, the initiative will link information spanning ADNOC’s refining, processing, production, logistics, sales, and trading activities.
Interconnected AI agents will project crude oil supply, demand, prices, and margins, while examining the commercial and operational consequences of choices made across the value chain.
The arrangement will expand on ADNOC’s existing AI infrastructure, such as its ENERGYai subsurface platform.
ADNOC stated that it has upwards of 200 AI applications and 70 robotics use cases either actively operating or in development.
Additionally, OpenAI and ADNOC will co-create AI systems and conduct employee training.
ADNOC has deployed ChatGPT Enterprise to more than 40,000 staff members, noting an adoption rate above 97%.
The deal also covers OpenAI’s Daybreak Blue initiative to bolster ADNOC’s cyber defence programmes, specifically identifying vulnerabilities and safeguarding critical energy infrastructure.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman added: “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.”
