AI @ ExxonMobil

Focused on integrating multiple data sources (sensors, images) via AI to advance energy security and lower emissions, emphasizing the role of people in making AI-powered transformations happen.

• ExxonMobil: Our People and AI: Making the magic happen

Advanced discussions and contracts to power AI data centers with natural gas and carbon capture; partnered with TechnipFMC for AI-enabled digital twins boosting technology buy points; collaborations with Google and NextEra to build AI infrastructure; leveraged AI to turn predictive maintenance and energy optimization into business intelligence.

• MSN: Exxon Partner Drills New Buy Point — And Uses AI to Create Digital Twins
• ExxonMobil: Turning Artificial Intelligence into Business Intelligence at ExxonMobil
• Oil Gas Leads: ExxonMobil: Using AI and Supercomputing to Unlock More Barrels
• Natural Gas Intel: ExxonMobil Tapping Data Center, AI Technology to Drive Low-Carbon Natural Gas Demand
• CNBC: Exxon Mobil in talks to power data centers with natural gas and carbon capture
• Decarbon Fuse: Exxon In Advanced Talks To Power AI Data Centers
• Politico Pro: NextEra teams with Google, Exxon in massive AI build-out
• Investor's Business Daily: TechnipFMC Deal With Exxon And AI Moves Fuel Buy Point
• Enkiai: ExxonMobil AI Strategy 2025: Powering Data Centers

Adopted autonomous AI agents across the energy production value chain to cut costs, reduce emissions, and expand energy transition leadership; strategic shift toward serving global AI infrastructure energy needs documented.

• Klover.ai: ExxonMobil's AI Strategy: Analysis of Sustained Dominance in AI Energy
• Klover.ai: ExxonMobil Uses AI Agents: 10 Ways to Use AI [In-Depth Analysis 2025]
• Enkiai: ExxonMobil AI Initiatives for 2025: Key Projects, Strategies and Partnerships
• AI Adopters Club: ExxonMobil's AI Strategy - by Kamil Banc

Partnered with CoLab Software to deploy AI tools for engineering design collaboration and communication on offshore oil rigs, enhancing operational efficiency.

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

Expanded AI applications to analyze customer data for personalized services; initiated construction of natural gas plants with carbon capture to power AI data centers; targeted $15 billion operating cost savings by 2027 via AI and process automation.

• Catallyst Executive Education Institute: How AI is Transforming Oil and Gas Industry
• Bloomberg: Exxon's AI Power Play Aims to Beat Nuclear
• 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

Built technology roadmaps using AI to optimize oil and gas production worldwide, from Guyana to Australia.

• Exxon Mobil Corporation | ExxonMobil: Building technology roadmaps with AI

Implemented automated ML workflows increasing Bakken gas lift production by more than 5%; enhanced safety protocols reducing workplace accidents; leadership comments issued regarding AI impact on future oil and gas operations.

• 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

Company focused on unified data strategy to identify data readiness for AI and ML capabilities; implemented 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 accelerated well development by integrating disparate data silos using AI, enabling faster and more efficient oil well development.

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

Sarah Karthigan leads AI projects focusing on IT operations self-healing strategies, strengthening internal AI capabilities.

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

Partnership with Microsoft Azure to leverage IoT and machine learning to minimize downtime and increase productivity, marking significant enterprise data and analytics advancements.

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

ExxonMobil began focusing on edge AI initiatives and early AI networking equipment since the 1980s, with partnerships including Intel to explore advanced computing at the edge.

• Light Reading: ExxonMobil heads to the edge with Intel