Initial offerings include AI-based reliability applications to improve operational efficiency for the energy and process industries
Shell (NYSE: RDS), C3 AI (NYSE: AI), Baker Hughes (NYSE: BKR), and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT ) today announced the launch of the Open AI Energy Initiative ™ (OAI), an open ecosystem of artificial intelligence (AI) based solutions for the energy and process industries. OAI provides a framework for energy operators, service providers, equipment providers, and independent software providers for energy services to offer interoperable solutions, including AI and physics-based models, monitoring, diagnostics, prescriptive actions, and services, powered by BHC3 ™ AI Suite and Microsoft Azure.
"This initiative aims to combine the efforts of global leaders to accelerate the digital transformation of the energy industry to new, safe, and protected energy and to ensure climate security," said C3 AI CEO Thomas M. Siebel.
The first set of OAI solutions provided by Shell and Baker Hughes is focused on reliability and designed to improve uptime and performance of energy assets and processes. These reliability solutions will serve as extensions to the current BHC3 Reliability application, an AI-based application that provides reliability, process, and maintenance engineers with AI-enabled knowledge to predict process and equipment performance risks for the energy industry. The application takes advantage of the BHC3 AI Suite's ability to integrate enterprise-scale data from disparate data sources and train AI reliability models that cover all plant operations, making the most of Azure, the scalable, enterprise-class cloud infrastructure from Microsoft.
OAI augments BHC3 applications with domain-specific solutions led by partners that accelerate the deployment of AI-based reliability solutions to unleash significant economic value across the energy industry, helping to make energy production cleaner, safer and efficient. The initial OAI reliability solutions offered by Shell and Baker Hughes enable interoperability between BHC3 Reliability, OAI modules, and existing industry solutions for such applications. Solutions available today include specific equipment modules and processes proven and tested with pre-trained AI models, coded subject knowledge, low latency data connectors, thermodynamic and operational parameter libraries, global health monitoring services, in-depth diagnostics,
Shell is making modules available through OAI, including:
- Predictive Shell Maintenance for Control Valves
- Shell predictive maintenance for rotating equipment
- Predictive Shell Maintenance for Submarine Electric Submersible Pumps
Baker Hughes will offer OAI interoperability with a range of technologies in the energy industry, including:
- iCenter - Advanced digital turbomachinery services
- Bently Nevada System 1 Condition monitoring software
- Baker Hughes Valve Life Cycle Management
The Open AI Energy Initiative will increase Baker Hughes and C3 AI applications, including:
- BHC3 Reliability
- BHC3 Production Optimization
- BHC3 Inventory optimization
- C3 AI CRM
“Digital technologies and AI are helping us to improve our core business today and build the energy businesses of the future. For the past few years, we have been working with C3 AI to scale our AI-based predictive maintenance solutions to reduce costs and improve the productivity, reliability, and performance of our assets, ”said Shell's chief technology officer, Yuri Sebregts. “We are monitoring more than 5,200 pieces of equipment using machine learning in upstream and downstream manufacturing, as well as integrated gas assets. We are excited to bring this feature to market and we want to develop an open ecosystem where others can offer AI solutions to help improve reliability across the industry.”
"Taking energy forward requires new technology approaches that leverage collaboration, open data standards, and cutting-edge AI capabilities," said Uwem Ukpong, Baker Hughes executive vice president of regions, alliances, and corporate sales. “Working alongside our alliance partners at C3 AI and together with industry leaders at Shell and Microsoft, OAI will help address the industry's persistent challenge of unproductive downtime. This new ecosystem will leverage our existing strong BHC3 portfolio and is a promising step in the digital transformation of energy.”
"Microsoft is committed to transforming the energy industry and supporting solutions like the Open AI Energy Initiative, which are contributing to the achievement of these transformation goals," said Microsoft Vice President of Energy, Darryl Willis. "Digital technology is helping key areas of the industry, such as reliability and plant maintenance, and Microsoft's participation in the Open AI Energy Initiative will further advance the transition to a zero-emissions future."
"The Open AI Energy Initiative is an early but clear reflection of the direction the market is taking," said Kevin Prouty, vice president of the IDC group, energy, and manufacturing insights. “With this already established alliance of leading organizations, including C3 AI, Shell, Baker Hughes, and Microsoft, OAI is positioned to establish the business AI ecosystem for the energy industry alone.”
Learn more about the Open AI Energy Initiative and its reliability solutions at https://bakerhughesc3.ai/products/bhc3-oai/
About C3.ai, Inc.
C3.ai, Inc. (NYSE: AI) is a leading provider of enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) software that accelerates digital transformation. C3 AI offers a fully integrated product line: C3 AI ®Suite, an end-to-end platform for developing, implementing, and operating large-scale AI applications; C3 AI Applications, a portfolio of AI applications in the software as a service (Software as a Service, SaaS) model specific to certain market sectors; C3 AI CRM, a package of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications specific to certain market sectors and developed for AI and machine learning; and C3 AI Ex Machina, an AI solution without code to apply data science to everyday business problems. The core of C3 AI's offerings is an open, model-driven AI architecture that dramatically simplifies data science and application development. Learn more at www.c3.ai.
About Royal Dutch Shell plc
Royal Dutch Shell plc is registered in England and Wales has its headquarters in The Hague and is listed on the London, Amsterdam, and New York stock exchanges. Shell companies operate in more than 70 countries and territories with businesses that include oil and gas exploration and production; production and sale of liquefied natural gas and gas for liquids; manufacturing, marketing, and transportation of petroleum and chemical products and renewable energy projects. For more information, visit www.shell.com.
About Baker Hughes
Baker Hughes (NYSE: BKR) is an energy technology company that provides solutions for industrial and energy customers worldwide. Built on a century of experience and with operations in more than 120 countries, our innovative technologies and services are taking energy forward - making it safer, cleaner, and more efficient for people and the planet. Visit us at bakerhughes.com.
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