Shell, C3 AI, Baker Hughes, and Microsoft announced the launch of the Open AI Energy Initiative™ (OAI), a first-of-its-kind open ecosystem of artificial intelligence-based solutions for the energy and process industries. The OAI provides a framework for energy operators, service providers, equipment providers, and independent software vendors for energy services to offer interoperable solutions, including AI and physics-based models, monitoring, diagnostics, prescriptive actions, and services, powered by the BHC3™ AI Suite and Microsoft Azure.
Thomas M. Sibel, CEO of C3AI, said, “This initiative is about combining the efforts of global leaders to accelerate digital transformation into new industries, safe and secure energy, and to ensure global climate protection.
The first set of OAI solutions provided by Shell and Baker Hughes focuses on reliability and is designed to improve energy resources and uptime and performance of 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 to predict process and equipment performance risks for the power industry ins application from BHC3 AI Suite Scale data integration skills and AI reliability train models that cover entire plant activity taking full advantage of Azure, Microsoft's scalable, enterprise-class cloud infrastructure.
OAI enhances BHC3 applications with partner-led, domain-specific solutions that accelerate the deployment of AI-based reliability solutions that help make energy production cleaner, safer and more efficient to unlock significant economic value across the energy industry.
The initial OIA reliability solutions proposed by Shell and Baker Hughes enable interoperability between BHC3 reliability, OAI modules, and existing industry solutions for such applications.