AI @ ExxonMobil

Continued emphasis on AI-powered integration of diverse data sources like sensors and imagery to advance energy security and lower emissions, focusing on making AI benefits accessible and operationalizing data internally.

• Exxon Mobil Corporation: Our People and AI: Making the magic happen

Advanced collaborations and contracts including with TechnipFMC for AI-driven digital twins; focused on AI and supercomputing integration for reservoir modeling and seismic interpretation; ongoing talks to power and decarbonize AI data centers with low carbon natural gas with carbon capture technology; multi-company partnerships shaping AI infrastructure and energy demand.

• Investors.com: TechnipFMC Deal With Exxon And AI Moves Fuel Buy Point
• OilGasLeads.com: ExxonMobil: Using AI and Supercomputing to Unlock More Barrels
• CNBC: Exxon Mobil in talks to power data centers with natural gas and carbon capture
• PoliticoPro: NextEra teams with Google, Exxon in massive AI build-out

ExxonMobil scaled oil and gas production to meet AI and data center energy needs; employed autonomous AI agents to cut costs, reduce emissions, and drive energy transition; formed partnerships with Google and NextEra for AI infrastructure build-out.

• Exxon Mobil Corporation: Powering the AI revolution with reliable energy
• Klover.ai: ExxonMobil Uses AI Agents: 10 Ways to Use AI
• Enkiai.com: ExxonMobil AI Initiatives for 2025: Key Projects, Strategies and Partnerships

Partnership with CoLab Software advanced AI-assisted engineering design collaboration for offshore oil rigs.

• BetaKit: ExxonMobil takes CoLab Software's AI tool out to sea with $5.6 million oil-rig partnership

Engaged in powering AI data centers via natural gas plants with carbon capture, marking collaboration between oil and tech sectors; targeting $15B operating cost savings by 2027 through AI and process automation.

• CNBC: Big Oil wants to help Big Tech power artificial intelligence data centers
• oklahomaminerals.com: Powering AI Data Centers with a Natural Gas Plant
• Constellation Research: ExxonMobil to outline process, automation, AI efforts

Implemented AI-driven technology roadmaps to optimize oil and gas production in locations from Guyana to Australia.

• Exxon Mobil Corporation: Building technology roadmaps with AI

Machine learning workflows increased production output by over 5% in Bakken gas lift fields; AI enhanced safety protocols to reduce workplace accidents.

• Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE): ExxonMobil's Machine Learning Workflow Boosts Bakken Output
• PitchGrade: ExxonMobil: AI Use Cases 2024
• Forbes: For ExxonMobil, Data Is Much More Than Just The New Oil

Established a secure data strategy to identify AI-ready datasets; employed AI in predictive maintenance reducing unplanned downtime and labor costs.

• Diginomica: How ExxonMobil is drilling for unified data to fuel business capabilities
• AI Expert Network: Case Study: Transforming Energy Operations with AI at ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil applied AI to integrate siloed data facilitating faster and more efficient oil well development.

• Emerj Artificial Intelligence Research: Two Applications at the Largest Western Oil Company

Leadership spotlight: Sarah Karthigan led AI projects focusing on self-healing IT operations strategies.

• MIT Sloan Management Review: Developing an Appetite for AI: ExxonMobil's Sarah Karthigan

Partnership with Microsoft Azure enabled using IoT and ML to reduce downtime and boost productivity across operations.

• AI, Data & Analytics Network: ExxonMobil's Well-Oiled Enterprise Data and Analytics Approach

Initial AI foundations: ExxonMobil started studying AI and networking equipment since the 1980s, with its AI efforts visible in collaborations such as with Intel focusing on edge computing.

• Light Reading: ExxonMobil heads to the edge with Intel