AI and digitalisation: turning power into intelligence
Dec 16, 2025
At ADIPEC 2025, His Excellency Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, AIQ Chairman, captured the attention of the global energy community with a simple yet profound message: “Before, knowledge was power. Now, power is intelligence.” The future of energy will be defined more directly by those who optimise its production and supply. The most impactful value creation in energy is shifting from physical capacity to digital capability, where the winners are set to be defined by those who are most effectively able to turn data into decisions, and decisions into advantage.
This is exactly AIQ’s sweet spot. AI and digitalisation are drawing closer to the heart of energy transformation, reshaping how energy is discovered, processed, transported, and traded. As an AI-led digitalisation specialist for energy, we have developed more than 200 AI use cases and productised 14, all designed with the specific purpose of supporting the maximisation of energy supply with minimum emissions.
Our ENERGYai - the world’s-first-of-its-kind at this scale agentic AI framework for energy - is designed to support the reduction in unplanned shutdowns by half, and improve production forecast accuracy by 90%. For an industry successfully built on analog processes, experience, intuition, and engineering excellence, AI is accelerating the pace of progress. Today, machine learning models anticipate equipment failures before they happen, optimise production in real-time, and integrate seamlessly with human decision-making. Safety has been improved through AI-enabled systems that can uplift reactive, passive CCTV networks, turning them into proactive, predictive monitoring applications. What once depended on hindsight now runs on foresight - with operations becoming safer, smarter, and more reliable and sustainable.
AI and its capabilities and impact continue to evolve and expand, with AIQ leading the charge in the development of agentic AI frameworks for energy, bringing the industry closer to autonomy, from automation. Initial digitalisation and AI-enabled systems supported analysis and interpretation, while ENERGYai PhD-level AI agents perceive, think, learn, and act to drive real-world operational impact.
ENERGYai is a perfect embodiment of the ‘can-do’ outlook present in the UAE. Developed in partnership with ADNOC, and in collaboration with G42 and Microsoft, its development highlights the combination of home-grown expertise combined with international know-how to deliver industry-transforming innovation.
Energy and AI are the twin engines of continued societal development. While on separate tracks in certain respects, the interdependence between these two megatrends is becoming clear. Large language AI models require access to substantial amounts of electricity to sustain their computational development, while the energy sector stands to gain exponentially by the deployment of AI solutions to uplift operational performance.
AI across industrial sectors is becoming a strategic and tactical imperative, which will ultimately differentiate the organisations and societies that grow and prosper from those that stagnate and lose relevance over time. The energy-AI nexus is defining the next era of industrialisation and, at AIQ, we are proud to be leading the charge, turning power into intelligence - and intelligence into progress.
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