Abu Dhabi's ADNOC, G42 sign deal with OpenAI as Sam Altman travels to UAE
The multi-year deal will connect ADNOC’s operations with AI agents that forecast supply, demand, prices and margins, officials said.
- On Monday, November 2, 2026, ADNOC signed an agreement with OpenAI and G42 to deploy OpenAI Frontier technology across its oil and gas operations.
- Building on the AIQ venture, 60 per cent owned by ADNOC, the partnership aims to enable connected operational and commercial decision-making to improve efficiency.
- ADNOC plans to use Frontier to plan oil and gas field development, a process that currently takes months but could be completed in hours.
- Four agreements were signed today between Abu Dhabi-based entities and OpenAI, spanning government, energy, and investment sectors as part of a broader enterprise push.
- ADIPEC, the UAE's largest oil and gas conference, hosted the announcement amid industry concerns; ExxonMobil and Chevron cancelled attendance last week citing security concerns.
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El EconomistaAbu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The Emirati oil company ADNOC announced on Monday in Abu Dhabi an alliance with the U.S. artificial intelligence giant OpenAI, which it presented as the first of its kind in the world in the energy sector. The agreement was announced during an oil industry conference attended by the director of the company creating ChatGPT conversational assistant Sam Altman. The agreement will turn ADNOC into “the first energy c…
The Abu Dhabi ADNOC National Petroleum Company has concluded a long-term agreement with the American OpenAI (ChatGPT developer) and the Emirate Technology Group G42 on the introduction of artificial intelligence (IT) into production, investment and commercial operations. ADNOC has reported that it will be the first in the energy sector to deploy the OpenAI Frontier platform to coordinate IE agents and combine decision-making processes across the…
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It will be the first energy in the world to deploy the advanced artificial intelligence platform OpenAI Frontier.
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