Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), one of the world's largest energy producers with a production capacity of 4.85 million barrels per day, faced the challenge of optimising drilling and production across Abu Dhabi's diverse onshore and offshore geological formations. Subsurface uncertainty can render pre-planned drilling parameters suboptimal within hours, while non-productive time from stuck pipe, lost circulation, and wellbore instability historically accounted for a significant share of total drilling costs. The organisation's reliance on experienced drilling engineers for real-time decision-making created bottlenecks during concurrent multi-rig campaigns, and institutional knowledge was at risk as veteran personnel approached retirement. Integrating disparate data streams from mudlogging sensors, downhole measurement-while-drilling tools, and surface equipment into a coherent decisioning framework proved technically demanding.
ADNOC deployed a comprehensive AI strategy across its value chain, integrating over 30 AI applications through its ENERGYai umbrella. The AR360 (Advanced Reservoir 360) solution, developed by AIQ with SLB, uses AI and machine learning to improve reservoir management and optimise field development planning on a single integrated platform — reducing planning time while increasing well life and recovery rates. Following successful deployment on two reservoirs in early 2024, AR360 is scaling across more than 30 reservoirs in ADNOC's upstream operations.
At the SARB offshore field, advanced digital technologies including AIQ's DrillRep and OptiDrill tools enabled a 25% increase in production capacity to 140,000 barrels per day, with the field operated remotely from Zirku island. ADNOC's Neuron 5 AI platform autonomously monitors critical equipment performance using deep learning on sensor data, with pilot results showing a potential 50% reduction in unplanned shutdowns and 20% improvement in planned maintenance intervals. The company's predictive maintenance programme covers 2,500 critical machines across the group. In 2023 alone, ADNOC's AI initiatives generated an estimated $500 million in value.
This is an industry case study based on publicly available information. ADNOC is not a Pertama Partners client.
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