ADNOC signs partnership agreement with OpenAI and G42 to deploy new technology

Moscow, November 3 – Neftegaz.RU. ADNOC announced a landmark multi-year partnership with OpenAI and G42 at ADIPEC, becoming the first energy company to deploy OpenAI’s advanced artificial intelligence (AI) platform for connecting and coordination frontier AI agents across complex business operations. 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.

The partnership will initially focus on two high-value applications. The first will transform field master planning from a sequence of separate subsurface, facilities and economic studies into a single, integrated decision. 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.

The second application will make ADNOC the first energy company in the world to use this technology to value every barrel while it is still in the ground. It will 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. 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. By solving instantly complex workflows from the reservoirs to the customers, this application will give decision-makers insights that are ready to act on and will unlock the highest value of every barrel ADNOC produces, processes and sells.

The partners will jointly 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.

What's more?

Beyond the initial applications, the partnership will create a shared foundation of industrial knowledge that preserves institutional expertise and accelerates future AI applications across ADNOC's operations. It will also strengthen ADNOC's cyber defence through OpenAI's Daybreak Blue initiative, helping security teams identify vulnerabilities and protect critical energy infrastructure. All solutions will operate within ADNOC's oversight, ensuring that proprietary data and critical infrastructure remain protected.

As part of the partnership, ADNOC and OpenAI will co-develop advanced AI solutions and equip ADNOC's workforce with the skills to deploy and use them effectively. This builds on ADNOC's rollout of ChatGPT Enterprise to more than 40,000 employees, the largest enterprise deployment of ChatGPT in the Middle East and North Africa, with adoption exceeding 97%.

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.