SLB and Aker BP announced they have agreed to a long-term partnership to develop an AI-driven digital platform for Aker BP to accelerate innovation and increase efficiency across the company’s exploration and production (E&P) operations. The new platform will let Aker BP use SLB’s Delfi digital platform in the cloud.
“By codeveloping AI-powered digital technologies, we will transform Aker BP’s subsurface workflows, accelerating planning cycles, increasing production, and reducing costs across their entire E&P life cycle,” said Rakesh Jaggi, president for digital and integration at SLB. “We have made a long-term commitment with Aker BP to continuously improve the subsurface part of their platform, driving constant efficiency optimization and more sustainable energy production.”
The partners plan to transition Aker BP’s current application portfolio to the cloud and create one integrated platform for subsurface workflows. The companies say the computing speed of the cloud will allow the platform to use advanced AI and to reveal insights from previously untapped data.
“The platform we develop in partnership with SLB is a key step in realizing our strategy to build the E&P company of the future and cement our position as a digital leader,” said Per Øyvind Seljebotn, senior vice president for exploration and reservoir development at Aker BP. “Leveraging the cloud for data-driven subsurface workflows will increase efficiency and value creation while helping to lower the environmental impact from our fields and discoveries.”
An essential part of enabling AI-driven workflows is establishing a unified data environment. The new platform is expected to build on SLB’s use of the Open Group’s OSDU technical standard and close integration with Microsoft’s Azure Data Manager for Energy.
“Moving to the Delfi platform is a big step forward on our data-driven journey,” said Paula Doyle, chief digital officer at Aker BP. “The use of Azure Data Manager for Energy, a strong and open collaboration with our digital ecosystem, and a high ambition to leverage GenAI are key benefits in this partnership with SLB.”