Chevron Joins SLB and TotalEnergies Digital Subsurface Partnership

Chevron has joined a long-term digital subsurface collaboration between SLB and TotalEnergies, known as Arena. The partnership, established in 2024, aims to co-develop technologies for reservoir engineering and geoscience. Chevron becomes the second global operator in the collaboration, contributing investment, intellectual property, and technical expertise. The company will focus on uncertainty analysis, optimization, and field development planning to enhance digital subsurface technologies.

Arena is designed to improve decision-making in reservoir engineering and geoscience workflows as operators manage complex reservoirs and growing volumes of subsurface data. Rakesh Jaggi, president of SLB’s digital business, highlighted that Chevron’s experience will strengthen the development of scalable technologies. Subject matter experts from Chevron and TotalEnergies will work within SLB technology centers, shortening feedback loops between product development teams and operators.

Jitendra Kikani, Chevron vice president of Subsurface, emphasized the company’s commitment to advancing digital capabilities. The collaboration will combine Chevron’s expertise in uncertainty analysis with digital technologies and AI-enabled workflows to improve decision quality and operational efficiency. The partnership builds on previous collaborations between Chevron, TotalEnergies, and SLB, including the Intersect reservoir simulator.