By Ejekwu Chidiebere
EWI (Media) TotalEnergies and Cognite, a leader in industrial AI according to the French major, have just announced a new phase of what it (TotalEnergies) had called “strategic partnership”, to “scale” the deployment, over a period of three years, of the Cognite industrial data and AI platform, across all the company’s (TotalEnergies) operated upstream assets worldwide, “covering the entire value chain from drilling to production”. The objective EWI (Media) has learnt was to harness the potential of its (TotalEnergies) data to enhance the industrial performance of its sites.
“Building on a long-standing collaboration”, this new initiative will aim to make, according to TotalEnergies, complex data AI-ready thereby boosting the value of its existing data, to facilitate improvement of operational excellence across its assets. The collaboration is also expected to position industrial data and AI as strategic levers for the company towards providing more reliable, efficient, and sustainable energy. This will also enable TotalEnergies it says to:
- Access more industrial data, to improve the accuracy of data analysis faster and shorten the lead to adopt applications by providing easy and quick access to relevant, high quality industrial data
- Enable dynamic visualization of assets to enhance decision-making throughout the production lifecycle and monitor critical equipment for production and operational safety and to,
- Accelerate the use of AI to analyze and drive operational performance across sites
Namita Shah, President of OneTech at TotalEnergies said: “This partnership with Cognite marks a new milestone in our digital transformation.”
“By creating the data foundation which unifies our industrial data globally and makes it AI-ready, we are creating the conditions to accelerate AI-driven solutions that will significantly enhance the safety, operational and environmental performance of TotalEnergies. This initiative reflects our ambition to make data and AI strategic levers for more reliable, sustainable, and efficient energy.”
“TotalEnergies isn’t just embracing digital transformation; they are accelerating their entire operation,” says Girish Rishi, CEO of Cognite. “Our long-term collaboration is built on a shared vision to scale the impact of Industrial AI. By establishing an AI-ready data foundation, we’re equipping their teams to rapidly unlock insights and improve operational excellence across their global assets.”