AI at the heart of our long-standing businesses and the energy transition
TotalEnergies was a pioneer in AI and has used the technology for many years to analyse the subsurface in hydrocarbon exploration-production projects, as it excels in analyzing the large quantities of data generated by subsurface studies. AI continues to be widely used to optimize oil field production, improve predictive maintenance and detect equipment malfunctions. AI now also plays a vital role for the Company in the reduction of its emissions, the energy efficiency of its sites and the development of renewable energies. For example, the Company uses this technology to identify the best sites for installing solar and wind farms and accurately predict their energy production.
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Boosting team creativity and productivity
TotalEnergies was the first French company to widely implement Copilot, Microsoft’s generative AI assistant, with its employees to support them in their daily work. Employees also have access to Microsoft Power Platform licenses, a low-code/no-code app development system enabling them to create digital apps in full autonomy to help them make their ideas a reality and manage their projects. In parallel with the roll-out of these systems, a training program on these new tools has been organized to help the teams use them and harness all their potential.
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Priority on safety and security
TotalEnergies has particularly sensitive sites, and safety is a fundamental value of the Company. As such, TotalEnergies does not use entirely autonomous decision-making systems; the final decisions are taken by expert teams. But AI recommendations can be used as decision aids in complex environments. This calls for performance requirements for our systems and the traceability of decision-making processes. In addition, extremely large quantities of data are required to create AI models. Access to these data, as well as their “cleaning”, relevance and storage, are major challenges on which our teams are proactively working.
TotalEnergies Digital Factory:
stepping up the development of digital solutions
Frédéric Gimenez Chief Digital Officer and Digital Factory Managing Director
“Created in 2020, the TotalEnergies Digital Factory is home to 300 experts in digital and AI technology, including developers and data scientists. The aim with the Digital Factory is to develop digital solutions to optimize our industrial operations, accelerate our processes, reduce our environmental impact and support the Company’s development in low-carbon energies. It combines the agility of a startup with the robustness and rigor of a large-scale production entity such as TotalEnergies.”