Kenesbai: AIQ Focus on Agentic AI Use in Energy Sector

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00:00I want to start off just asking you quite simply about what AIQ do because

00:05you know for many of us it feels as though there are lots of different AI

00:09national champions in the UAE. So tell us about the work that AIQ does and what

00:16you're looking to achieve. Dear Juman, first of all thank you so much for

00:20having me it's an honor being here. AIQ since its inception in 2020 has started

00:25off with a clear vision to become the leader of AI into the energy sector.

00:30We started off with upstream and subsurface, went into downstream, health and

00:35safety, emission controls forecasting and so on. Fast forward this to 2025, first of

00:42all we became one of Abu Dhabi's fastest homegrown AI unicorns through the

00:46acquisition of a majority stake by Precite. We've developed over 14 products

00:52covering the entire energy value chain. His Excellency Dr. Sultan, our chairman,

00:57yesterday at the Adipax opening ceremony announced some of the clear results that

01:02we've achieved to date, helping develop over 200 AI use cases for ADNOC, helping

01:08increase efficiency, decrease downtime and truly we're on well on our path to

01:15become a leader of AI in the energy sector. Yeah, talk to me about one of your

01:19flagship products, energy AI. What exactly does it do? So energy AI came from our

01:27core mission of Applied Intelligence into day-to-day operations. What think of it

01:33as we're developing a PhD level set of agents or PhD level petrol physicists,

01:40reservoir engineers, field development engineers, geophysicists and so forth,

01:45that are able to augment a very large amount of data which is very technical.

01:51Outside of augmentation, we've also developed a RAG system covering over a

01:56million documents to date and this is still in production phase. We've built a

02:00very sophisticated sophistication model that is able to now talk to the data,

02:04understand it, process it, guide the field engineers, guide the seismic

02:10interpreters in order how to accelerate their workflows. One of the key

02:14achievements that we've done in a very early period is we took a seismic cube of

02:19over 12,000 square kilometers, which is a very large seismic cube and we were able to

02:24achieve preliminary interpretation in one hour at a 70% accuracy. Sorry for being

02:31technical, but this process in the normal world will take about two weeks, involve over

02:37ten engineers. So what we are doing is transforming operations of energy and

02:44augmenting the daily lives of the field engineers. And of course, this is an

02:49example of agentic AI. Is there going to be increased focus on agentic AI in coming

02:55years? Absolutely. To speed up a lot of these processes that you just highlighted?

03:00Absolutely. So we focus on digitalization, automation and agentic AI frameworks.

03:07Agentic AI frameworks or the development of these agents to help support everything from

03:12upstream to downstream to other energy verticals is a key focus for AIQ, not only within the

03:18Abu Dhabi ecosystem and not only with our key shareholder and partner ADNOC, but also exporting

03:23that knowledge and experience and those solutions to the global world. We are right

03:28now heavily actively participating in discussions with Kazakhstan's energy giants through our strategic

03:36partner and our shareholder Precite. We're utilizing Precite ecosystem in Southeast Asia with

03:42Malaysia, Indonesia. And of course, we want to make sure that we export that knowledge as

03:47an Abu Dhabi product. So it's a product that you could also partner with third parties?

03:52Yes, absolutely. So this product is being developed by G42 in partnership with ADNOC, Microsoft who

03:59are helping us develop a very sophisticated OSDU platform. So we're very honored to have strategic

04:05partners in this journey. Yeah. You talked about the efficacy of your models earlier. And I guess,

04:14you know, one of the questions people asked is just how reliable, how accurate are the models that

04:20are coming through and how robust is your testing system before you actually take this, you take your

04:28findings and apply it to real world applications, you know, in the context of ADNOC and its activities?

04:35So when you work with petabytes of data, we're first of all honored and truly, truly blessed that ADNOC have a

04:43very, very sophisticated data logs and data lakes. So the data is very clean and we are able to augment

04:50the value from it relatively quickly. We always go through a series of testings before any model

04:56is rolled out. We do it in secure environments provided by G42, which means sovereign cloud

05:02environments. And we use these agents as co-pilots to date. So that means they give suggestions,

05:10they advise, they're able to support, but they are not taking the action because we want to empower

05:17the field engineers, the people who are working day to day on the fields from the control room to the

05:23boardroom in order to make executive decisions in a much better way. Yeah. How important is it,

05:28do you think, for oil companies today to have intelligent energy systems and getting a competitive edge?

05:34It's absolutely important. As His Excellency Dr. Sultan referred to yesterday,

05:40Secretary Bergen said that power equals knowledge. And that is a very powerful statement. AIQ is front and

05:47center of that statement. We want to empower the energy providers of the globe in order to optimize their

05:56production, to increase their efficiencies, to enable them to power this global trend of the AI revolution.

06:03Yeah. Where does sustainability come in? Oh, sustainability is present across the entire value

06:08chain. First of all, coming from our own products, we have EmissionX, which is heavily deployed across

06:13Adnox operations, which is able to forecast, understand and predict in terms of emission controls.

06:19So that serves as an advisory system for the operators. But also from building our models,

06:26we go in and we fine tune existing models. So we don't create large models, we focus on smaller models.

06:31We utilize, of course, energy green sources because of the ecosystem that G42 has developed. So,

06:37all across, sustainability is a key focus for us. Okay. Finally, looking ahead, what are some of the

06:44projects you're working on now that you're excited about in the coming years? Oh, there are so many to

06:49speak of. Every day, to be honest, by the hour, where we get more and more excited about the power of AI,

06:54and what we're able to do with transformation, the energy industry. For us, I think what we've achieved

07:02to date, we're present in 20% of Adnox reservoirs, 15% of their producing wells. So we are very much

07:07present a part of the UAE energy ecosystem. Yeah. We want to now expand this as an Abu Dhabi export to the

07:14world. And I think that's the biggest excitement for me personally and for the executive team. We want to

07:20empower, again, from Central Asia to Southeast Asia to other countries in the world, the capabilities

07:27to harness their data, give them insights, and transform their operations.

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