石油设备网讯 据世界石油网6月24日休斯敦和雷德伍德报道，通用电气旗下BHGE和C3.ai今天宣布了一项合资协议，将BHGE的全方位石油和天然气专业知识与C3.ai独特的AI软件套件结合在一起，提供数字化转型技术，将油气行业的生产能力推到新的高度。
石油和天然气领域的人工智能通过摄取大量数据来帮助提高整体绩效，能够在特定运营环境中变得智能化并在问题发生之前预测问题，从而使运营商能够改进规划、人员配备、采购和安全问题。该合资企业将BHGE广泛的油气领域专业知识与C3.ai独特的AI软件套件和解决方案相结合，为该行业创造了新的机遇。
BHGE董事长兼首席执行官Lorenzo Simonelli说道：“石油和天然气行业正在快速发展，数字技术对于提高我们自己和客户的生产力、效率和安全水平至关重要，这项协议是对我们双方持有的技术领先优势的相互认可，并展现了我们以新方式开展工作的意愿，以期为我们的客户提供最好的成果。将我们强大的数字能力和油气行业专业知识与C3.ai独特的AI解决方案相结合，我们将加速该行业的整体数字化转型。”
C3.ai首席执行官Thomas M. Siebel称：“石油和天然气行业正在经历数字化转型，以提高效率和增加安全性，同时减少对环境的影响，这些变化将通过在整个石油和天然气价值链中部署的高级AI用例来推动。BHGE是一家技术领先的公司，拥有深厚的专业知识，业务遍及全球并拥有良好的业内关系网。将其优势与C3.ai独特的工业AI能力相结合，我们将为世界上最重要的工业领域之一提供变革。”
这些公司会立即将C3.ai的AI技术，包括C3 AI套件和应用程序，推广和部署到石油和天然气业务中。BHGE和C3.ai还将利用BHGE现有的数字产品组合，共同开发针对石油和天然气的新型集成AI应用，并提供直接部署到客户环境中的油田和AI专业团队，以提供满足特定业务需求的AI解决方案。通过这种组合产品简化AI 应用的方法将帮助客户专注于最重要的事情 - 安全高效地运营其石油和天然气业务。
壳牌集团首席信息官Jay Crotts表示：“壳牌利用C3.ai平台加速我们业务的数字化转型，专注于使用AI和机器学习从预测性维护开始改善整体运营。壳牌还与BHGE在油田服务和软件开发方面建立了长期合作关系。探索现有油田技术与新兴数字技术的融合具有真正的潜力，在这种情况下，将C3.ai的能力与BHGE的领域专长相结合，创造出能够通过强大的先进分析技术真正解决石油和天然气特定挑战的新解决方案。”
根据协议条款，BHGE已获得C3.ai的少数股权，并将在C3.ai的董事会中占有一席之地。BHGE还将加速自身对AI的使用，在其业务中部署C3 AI套件，以支持新的BHGE AI应用程序，从而改善核心运营并更好地为客户提供支持AI的产品和服务。
裘寅 编译自 世界石油
原文如下：
BHGE, C3.ai announce JV to deliver AI solutions across the oil and gas industry
Baker Hughes, a GE company and C3.ai today announced a joint venture agreement that brings together BHGE’s fullstream oil and gas expertise with C3.ai’s unique AI software suite to deliver digital transformation technologies that will drive new levels of productivity for the oil and gas industry.
AI in the oil and gas segment helps improve overall performance by ingesting massive quantities of data, becoming intelligent about specific operational environments and predicting problems before they occur so that operators can improve planning, staffing, sourcing and safety. This joint venture combines BHGE’s extensive oil and gas technology domain expertise with C3.ai’s unique AI software suite and solutions, creating new opportunities for the sector.
“The oil and gas industry is rapidly evolving, and digital technology is critical to achieving increased levels of productivity, efficiency and safety for ourselves and for our customers,” said Lorenzo Simonelli, BHGE chairman and CEO. “This agreement is a mutual recognition of the technology leadership we each bring to the table and a willingness to work in new ways that deliver the best possible outcomes for our customers. Integrating our strong digital capabilities and oil and gas industry expertise with C3.ai’s unique AI solutions, we will accelerate the overall digital transformation of this industry.”
“The oil and gas sector is undergoing a digital transformation to improve efficiencies and increase safety, while simultaneously reducing environmental impact,” said Thomas M. Siebel, CEO, C3.ai. “These changes will be driven through advanced AI use cases deployed across the entire oil and gas value chain. BHGE is a technology-first company with deep expertise, a global footprint and strong relationships across the industry. Combining its strengths with the unique industrial AI capability of C3.ai, we will deliver transformative change to one of the world’s most important industry sectors.”
The companies will immediately market and deploy C3.ai’s AI technology, including the C3 AI Suite and applications, into oil and gas businesses. BHGE and C3.ai will also leverage BHGE’s existing digital portfolio to collaborate on new integrated AI applications specific to oil and gas, and offer combined teams of oilfield and AI expertise deployed directly into customer environments to deliver AI solutions that meet specific business needs. Simplifying the approach to AI with this combined offering will help customers focus on what matters most – running their oil and gas business safely and efficiently.
“Shell utilizes the C3.ai platform to accelerate digital transformation across our business, focusing on using AI and machine learning to improve overall operations starting with predictive maintenance,” said Shell Group CIO Jay Crotts. “Shell also has a long-standing relationship with BHGE in oilfield services and software development. There is real potential in exploring the fusion of existing oilfield technology and emerging digital technology, in this case combining C3.ai’s capabilities with BHGE’s domain expertise to create new solutions that truly address oil and gas specific challenges with powerful advanced analytics technology.”
Under the terms of the agreement, BHGE has taken a minority equity position in C3.ai and will have a seat on C3.ai’s board of directors. BHGE will also accelerate its own use of AI, deploying the C3 AI Suite across its business to enable new BHGE AI applications that improve core operations and better serve customers with AI-enabled products and services.
