Abu Dhabi's AIQ Targets Energy AI

Abu Dhabi’s AIQ said it wants to sell its energy-focused artificial intelligence products in the United States and Canada, extending a business built inside ADNOC into North America. (thenationalnews.com) Chief executive Dennis Jol said AIQ sees demand in markets where power prices and data-centre growth are putting pressure on energy systems. He said the company wants to take its technology “to the United States, to Canada” and other markets that can use it. (thenationalnews.com) AIQ is an Abu Dhabi energy artificial intelligence company tied to ADNOC and Presight. In 2023, ADNOC, G42 and Presight restructured the company so Presight took 51% and ADNOC kept 49%, valuing AIQ at more than $1.4 billion. (g42.ai) The company’s pitch is industrial rather than consumer AI: software for oilfields, reservoirs, seismic data and production systems. AIQ says its products are built to help energy companies improve operations, manage reservoirs and support decarbonization and sustainability targets. (aiq.ae) That export push follows a large home-market rollout. In March 2025, AIQ announced a $340 million contract to deploy its ENERGYai system and related tools across ADNOC’s upstream operations over three years. (g42.ai) ENERGYai is the company’s flagship product, and ADNOC has described it as an “agentic” system built for the energy sector. ADNOC said in November 2024 that the platform would use artificial intelligence agents and large language model technology across its value chain, trained on petabytes of proprietary data and decades of company knowledge. (adnoc.ae) ADNOC said a January 2025 trial combined a 70-billion-parameter language model with more than 50 years of internal knowledge and data from over 15% of its onshore and offshore wells. The company said the test improved seismic interpretation, reservoir performance work and monitoring. (adnoc.ae) The move adds a new lane to Gulf artificial intelligence spending. Abu Dhabi’s state-backed groups have spent heavily on chips, data centres and model partnerships, and AIQ shows the same capital being used to build exportable software for energy and infrastructure operators. (g42.ai) (semafor.com) North America is a logical target because it combines large oil and gas industries with rising electricity demand from data centres. Jol told The National that making energy systems “far more optimum” is AIQ’s “biggest opportunity.” (thenationalnews.com) What comes next is whether AIQ can turn ADNOC’s in-house deployment into outside contracts. The company has already proved it can win a nine-figure mandate at home; the test now is whether US and Canadian operators buy the same model. (g42.ai)