SLB and Shell have signed a strategic collaboration agreement to develop ways to use artificial intelligence (AI) to improve performance and efficiency.
SLB said in a news release that the collaboration aims to develop agentic AI to accelerate and amplify the capabilities of technical experts and decision-makers. The goal, SLB said, is to develop and deploy an open data and AI infrastructure that unifies data and workflows across the subsurface, well construction, and production domains in a secure digital environment. SLB said it plans to use its Lumi data and AI platform.
“The energy industry is being reshaped by digital and AI,” said Rakesh Jaggi, president of SLB’s digital business. “Working with industry leaders like Shell enables us to accelerate development of advanced digital and agentic AI solutions that are changing how our industry works through automation and autonomy to generate value right across upstream, from planning through operations.”
The collaboration represents a long-standing relationship between the companies. Earlier this year, SLB announced a technical partnership to deploy its Petrel subsurface software across Shell’s assets worldwide to standardize infrastructure and workflows.