AI-powered methane tracking, offshore drones and real-time safety analytics revealed at ADIPEC 2025
ADIPEC 2025 highlighted a major leap in energy innovation, featuring AI-powered emissions detection, offshore drone monitoring and autonomous well solutions that promise lower methane intensity, stronger safety performance and more efficient, data-driven production across the sector.
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00:17Hello and a very warm welcome to a special edition of Energy Frontiers
00:22brought to you from the biggest energy exhibition and conference in the world.
00:26It's ADIPEC 2025.
00:30Global leaders from right across the energy value chain have gathered here to build more robust and resilient energy systems,
00:40harnessing the full power of data, AI, innovation and collaboration.
00:45ADIPEC broke records this year, attracting around 240,000 visitors and generating $46 billion in deals,
00:53including major upstream and LNG agreements.
00:56Industry leaders signaled oil demand would remain above 100 million barrels a day beyond 2040,
01:03but warned that underinvestment threatened future supply.
01:07ADNOC CEO Dr. Sultan El-Jaba said investment of more than $4 trillion a year was needed in grids, data centers and infrastructure to meet rising demand.
01:17This year's theme, Energy, Intelligence, Impact, focused on system resilience and the growing role of AI and digital solutions across the energy sector.
01:27And Azerbaijan state energy company SOCAR was amongst those highlighting how energy is reshaping exploration and production.
01:37It's kind of like the whole oil and gas industry didn't even scratch the surface as far as it comes to digitalization.
01:42So I want to mention three projects we launched ourselves.
01:45So one is the methane AI platform, Rebecca.
01:48Our SOCAR green segment, they signed agreement with the satellite companies that they monitor SOCAR operated fields and ton of data on emissions get captured there.
02:00Second, we launched drone campaign and actually again on offshore our own fields and already captured over hundreds of the fugitive emission projects have been launched and executed and completed.
02:15And the third project I want to mention would be a digital twin.
02:20So UMID is our gas field, we operate ourself offshore gas field and we are right now gearing up to the full field development right now, Rebecca.
02:29How is SOCAR balancing production growth with the energy transition and also what are your plans for sustaining output from mature fields whilst also exploring new ones?
02:39So SOCAR is not shy that we are supporting oil and gas activities and our goal there is to enhance our production from our conventional oil and gas field such as ACG but at the same time SOCAR put ambitious targets on itself achieve near zero methane emission by 2035.
02:57We are launching a large number of incremental projects.
03:00What does the project do?
03:01They add additional production on top of the base which will stabilize the production plateau at the same time we are also looking into infrastructure led development and production.
03:12Casing point is a Garabakh project.
03:14It's oil project.
03:15We work with BP but it's infrastructure led development.
03:18You can think about natural consequences.
03:20It's going to reduce the capex.
03:22We all know that.
03:23It's going to help us to bring production early but the key point to answer your question is carbon footprint.
03:29So what happens Rebecca is you do not need to put large infrastructure offshore and what it does it reduces carbon footprint.
03:36Now switching to the second fold of the strategy is gas development.
03:41Absharon is actually led by Total Energies.
03:44We got our partner XRG as well joining in Azerbaijan.
03:47Very happy to have them.
03:48But what's happening is along your normal KPI such as IRR of the project, capex intensity, production, obviously output from the project as a gas.
03:58We are implemented carbon footprint measurements.
04:02Deals at ADIPEC this year reflected growing UAE-Azerbaijan cooperation with Dragon Oil's new partnership with SOCAR, BP's transition and upstream talks, plus a planned stake in the Southern Gas Corridor by ADNOC's energy arm XRG.
04:23AIQ, the Abu Dhabi company backed by ADNOC and Presite, which develops AI solutions across the energy value chain, spoke to energy frontiers about their strategic expansion in the Caspian region and how its technology designed to slash emissions and boost safety could benefit Azerbaijan.
04:42Ali, when it comes to AI, it's been much discussed as it should be here at ADIPEC 2025.
04:48How do you believe your solutions are helping energy majors become more efficient and lower their costs across the board?
04:55I think for us, what we did, we really focused where the ask is.
05:00We focused at the asset level.
05:02You know, people really focus on saying, hey, you need the associated infrastructure to start with.
05:07That's not true.
05:08You really need to understand at the asset level, where's the problem?
05:12If it's on the wellhead, if it's on the rig site, if it's on any associated asset, we'll say, hey, what is that problem?
05:18What is the specific use case we're trying to address?
05:21How much data is available for us to evaluate that data and build a solution around that as well to drive that optimization?
05:29We have 14 solutions to date across the entire valuation itself, right?
05:34The upstream, midstream models.
05:36And which ones in particular will help accelerate the energy transition for companies?
05:40We have a solution that's called RoboWell.
05:42That sits on top of the wellhead itself.
05:44That provides asset optimization and stabilization of your well and increases your production.
05:52So when you think of saying, hey, we want to drive transition across the energy sector.
05:57This is the first of a kind autonomous solution that we've created that now you actually can do it much more sustainable,
06:04much more efficient and without having to send personnel from HSE point two.
06:08Another solution I highlight as well is another one that's called SmartEye, which really looks at video analytics around safety of personnel on site.
06:17That again drives much more productivity on site to ensure that you're identifying any associated compliance elements from a safety,
06:26whether it's a slip and fall, whether it's associated, hey, the individual is going into a no-go zone.
06:32It sends these alerts and alarms real time to the command centers so actions are taken even before the event occurs.
06:39You have expansion plans from outside of your base here in the UAE.
06:43You're eyeing the CIS.
06:44Tell me more.
06:45We've had quite a few MOUs that we've signed across the CIS region, be it in Kazakhstan or even in Azerbaijan.
06:53We've had many conversations with Socar itself.
06:56You saw the announcements of the investment and stake from XRG in the Southern Corridor within the Caspian itself.
07:04The market there is really ripe for us, and we're expanding our capabilities in it, whether it's Precite, our parent company, or even whether it's AIQ now.
07:15We've got a very well-established setup there.
07:18That is a great market for us.
07:20We're continuing to have conversations.
07:21We're continuing to ensure that we can look to deploy our solutions because to fit the purpose that we've got in terms of our solutions, they're great here.
07:29But the environment there is very different.
07:31And we've got solutions that actually can be adapted and tweaked to fit those environments as well.
07:36Thank you so much for your time.
07:37Thank you very much.
07:38Well, that wraps up our special edition of Energy Frontiers, brought to you from the biggest energy exhibition and conference in the world, ADPEC 2025.
07:51I'll see you again soon.
07:52But for now, goodbye from me and my AI robotic friend.
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