OpenAI brings its artificial intelligence agents to Abu Dhabi oil company ADNOC

Abu Dhabi.— State oil company ADNOC announced on Monday, at the ADIPEC energy conference, a multi-year agreement with OpenAI and G42 to deploy OpenAI Frontier, the company’s platform for coordinating artificial intelligence agents across complex business operations.

Under the deal, ADNOC says it becomes the first company in the energy sector to adopt the technology. The signing was witnessed by Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, after he met OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman.

The first application will transform field master planning: OpenAI’s reasoning models will integrate decades of data from thousands of wells, multiple reservoirs and hundreds of surface facilities, together with costs, investment and commercial variables, to produce full-field development plans in hours rather than months.

The second application will seek to value every barrel while it is still in the ground: interconnected agents will continuously forecast supply, demand, prices and margins across production, refining, logistics, sales and trading.

The agreement also includes stronger cybersecurity through Daybreak Blue, an OpenAI initiative that helps security teams detect vulnerabilities, and workforce training. ADNOC has already rolled out ChatGPT Enterprise to more than 40,000 employees, with adoption above 97% — the largest enterprise ChatGPT deployment in the Middle East and North Africa, according to the company.

No financial terms were disclosed. On the same day, OpenAI signed other agreements in Abu Dhabi: with sovereign investor Mubadala for investment analysis, with the government for a compliance pilot, and a five-year deal with Inception42, a G42 subsidiary, to expand the adoption of advanced models in government institutions, companies and educational centers.

ADNOC chief executive Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber said the deployment shows “how frontier AI can move beyond individual applications to reshape the performance of an entire industry.” Altman said the partnership will help ADNOC move faster, operate more efficiently and make better decisions across the energy value chain.

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