Artificial intelligence
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May 14, 2026
viAct is developing a vision-enabled AI agent platform for high-risk industries, including oil and gas, designed to improve safety, operational monitoring and compliance in real time.
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May 14, 2026
DNV has released a new position paper arguing that digital trust frameworks are essential for safely scaling artificial intelligence across energy networks as utilities and operators increase reliance on AI-driven systems and real-time automation.
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May 13, 2026
Cognite has launched Cognite Flows, an AI-native industrial workflow platform designed to integrate operational data, applications and AI-driven insights into a unified interface for industrial and energy sector users.
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May 11, 2026
Emerson has launched the AspenTech AVA industrial AI platform, designed to help industrial operators accelerate enterprise AI adoption through AI-assisted workflows, operational decision support and real-time industrial data integration.
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May 08, 2026
Africa’s vast natural gas reserves are increasingly being viewed as a potential foundation for AI and data center growth, as rising digital infrastructure demand intensifies the need for reliable baseload power across the continent.
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May 06, 2026
Halliburton and Shape Digital have formed a strategic collaboration to improve digital asset performance management by linking subsurface and surface data for production operations.
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May 06, 2026
At OTC in Houston, ExxonMobil’s John Ardill said the coming “demand decade” will require more upstream investment, stronger policy alignment and faster deployment of AI-driven technologies. He pointed to autonomous drilling in Guyana and the U.S. shale model as indicators of where exploration is headed.
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April 27, 2026
Siemens Energy and TCS have expanded their partnership to deploy AI-driven solutions across energy operations, industrial systems and data center infrastructure to improve efficiency and reliability.
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April 24, 2026
SLB has agreed to acquire S&P Global Energy’s upstream software portfolio, expanding its digital subsurface and AI capabilities for U.S. shale and unconventional workflows.
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January 27, 2026
KPA has spun off Novara, a new company focused on AI-enabled safety and operational risk management software for high-risk industries including oil and gas.
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April 07, 2026
Emerson is adding AI capabilities to its Guardian platform, helping oil and gas operators improve automation performance, speed up troubleshooting and maintain reliability across increasingly complex operations.
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March 29, 2026
At CERAWeek, Devon Energy CEO Clay Gaspar reflected on his first year leading the company, outlining a three-pillar strategy, the industrial logic behind its merger with Coterra, and how AI is reshaping operations and future value creation.
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March 27, 2026
Natural gas was central last week to many of the ongoing discussions at CERAWeek 2026, hosted by S&P Global in Houston, Texas. With the rapid rise in data centers across the country, discussions about meeting the need for expanding rapid, reliable power generation have been at the forefront, with natural gas playing a key role.
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March 25, 2026
SLB and NVIDIA are expanding their collaboration to develop AI infrastructure, modular data centers and domain-specific models aimed at scaling digital and operational performance across the energy industry.
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March 23, 2026
Cognite and NVIDIA are deploying NV-Tesseract AI models with Aker BP to enhance anomaly detection and predictive maintenance across offshore operations, enabling earlier fault detection, reduced downtime and improved asset reliability in oil and gas.
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March 23, 2026
Aker BP and Armada will deploy a modular offshore data center on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, enabling real-time AI-driven drilling analytics, improved operational resilience and reduced downtime through localized data processing and edge computing.
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March 20, 2026
DHL is expanding its North America data center logistics network with 10 new sites and over 7 million sq ft of capacity, supporting hyperscale AI infrastructure growth with specialized handling, transport and global supply chain integration.
Webcast
World Oil AI: Ask Questions. Get Operational Answers
March 19, 2026
World Oil
Upstream teams are under increasing pressure to make faster, better-informed decisions, often with limited time and fragmented technical information. World Oil AI is a purpose-built, natural-language research assistant trained on decades of trusted World Oil technical content.
In this live webcast, you’ll see how engineers, operations managers, and technical leaders use World Oil AI to quickly surface relevant insights across drilling, completions, production, and field operations, without digging through archives or relying on generic AI tools.
We’ll demonstrate real-world use cases, show how the system grounds responses in authoritative World Oil content, and explain how AI-assisted research is helping organizations improve efficiency, reduce research time, and increase decision confidence.
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January
Offshore oil rigs combine explosive gas zones with harsh marine conditions, requiring computing systems that meet strict hazardous-area safety standards.
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January 27, 2026
Cognite has partnered with Snowflake to help oil and gas operators deploy industrial AI at scale by unifying IT, OT and operational data to improve asset performance, resilience and operational decision-making.
