ADNOC’s Thamama Centre generates over $1B in value using big data and AI

ADNOC’s Thamama Centre of Excellence..

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, ADNOC, has announced that its Thamama Centre of Excellence has generated $1.1 Billion in business value since its inception in 2017. Thamama is a key part of ADNOC’s ongoing strategic investments in advanced technology, digitalisation and artificial intelligence to drive greater efficiencies, quickly respond to market dynamics, and enable smart growth as the company continues to deliver on its 2030 strategy.

The hub brings together ADNOC’s leading subsurface experts and leverages big data, digitalisation, and smart analytics to help access hydrocarbon resources and unlock greater value from existing reservoirs. Thamama also drives innovation across ADNOC’s upstream projects, optimises development costs and enhances value from all producing onshore and offshore fields in Abu Dhabi.

Some of Thamama’s existing technology initiatives include one of the world’s largest co-development of oil rim and gas cap reservoirs. This innovative concept will enable ADNOC to competitively monetise several trillion cubic feet of gas and associated condensate while maximising the oil value. Thamama is also engaged in optimising field development costs by designing wells with custom-fit completions and deploying them at scale.

Thamama is also enabling ADNOC to integrate AI, advanced analytics and cloud computing into its reservoir management and subsurface workflows to enhance oil recovery and improve production efficiency by more than 10%. Its integrated capacity model creates a digital twin of ADNOC’s entire hydrocarbon value chain, potentially unlocking hundreds of millions of dollars in value every year.

ADNOC is working on over 15 new digitalisation projects in Thamama that offer the potential to deliver around $500 million in additional value per year when they are fully deployed over the coming years.

Yaser Saeed Al Mazrouei, ADNOC Upstream Executive Director said, “The value generated by Thamama since its start in 2017 highlights how ADNOC is harnessing advanced technologies, digitalisation and big data as well as deep engineering expertise to maintain ADNOC’s position as a leading low cost and low carbon player in our industry. Thamama is also helping us to nurture the UAE’s next generation of engineers and data scientists, as well as serving as a hub to harness AI solutions together with the recently established joint venture between ADNOC and G42, AIQ.”