Petronas Carigali Bolsters AI Capabilities with IBM Consulting Partnership

Petronas Carigali, an oil and gas company, is bolstering its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities through a collaboration with IBM Consulting. The partnership aims to strengthen AI-driven transformation initiatives across Petronas Carigali's operations and asset management.

The collaboration will focus on co-developing AI-powered solutions with Petronas Carigali and Tridiagonal.AI, T.AI, as the domain engineering partner and IBM Consulting as the AI and technology partner. These solutions are expected to accelerate maintenance decisions, optimize resource allocation, improve asset performance, and enable more informed, data-driven outcomes.

Petronas Carigali's CEO, Hazli Sham Kassim, emphasized that the company is not just adopting AI to improve workflows but embedding it to drive bottom-line performance, asset reliability, and speed-to-value aggressively. He added that by utilizing AI as a tool, Petronas Carigali can empower its workforce to eliminate operational challenges and make better critical decisions faster.

The partnership aims to unlock complex operational workflows at scale using AI agents, applications, and digital assistants. This collaboration is expected to bring significant benefits to Petronas Carigali's operations by scaling and operationalizing AI into day-to-day activities.