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Abu Dhabi's ADNOC, G42 sign deal with OpenAI as Sam Altman travels to UAE

The agreement will link OpenAI models to ADNOC’s industrial data to forecast supply, demand, prices and margins while keeping human oversight in place.

  • 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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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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The state oil company ADNOC sealed an alliance with OpenAI to integrate advanced models of artificial intelligence into its operations, by analyzing decades of data on deposits, reserves and energy facilities. The agreement seeks to optimize its development plans and coincides with the ambition of the United Arab Emirates to become a world power of AI, amid the difficulties faced by the Gulf oil sector by the Iranian blockade of the Strait of Or…

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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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Petrol Abu Dhabi National Inc. announced the signing of a partnership agreement with OpenAI and G42 to become the world's first organization to apply advanced AI techniques on its business scale.

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