Baker Hughes, C3.ai, and Microsoft have formed a strategic partnership to bring enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to the energy industry on the Microsoft Azure Cloud computing platform.

The joint offerings will allow for safer and cleaner energy operations.

The collaboration will also enable easy adoption of AI solutions for the energy industry to promote reliable and sustainable operations.

Using the technical expertise of the alliance, energy businesses will be able to access a set of enterprise-scale AI applications, which are optimised to run on Azure.

Baker Hughes chairman and CEO Lorenzo Simonelli said: “The AI solutions offered through Baker Hughes and C3.ai deliver insights that can reduce risk and improve performance for operators as they navigate this transition.

“With a singular offering that can accelerate digital transformation across the sector, energy businesses can now draw on the power of Microsoft’s Cloud, C3.ai’s leading AI capabilities, and Baker Hughes’s expertise in the energy industry.”

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The AI-based solutions are designed to address challenges across the entire energy industry, from inventory optimisation and energy management to predictive maintenance.

C3.ai CEO Thomas Siebel said: “We are witnessing a massive market shift as oil and gas businesses undergo enterprise-level digital transformation to improve efficiencies and increase safety while simultaneously reducing environmental impact.”

The scalable solutions will simplify the process of adopting AI capabilities for energy companies, starting with the movement of data management, storage, and computing into Azure, through the deployment of AI applications built on the base of BHC3 AI Suite.

Microsoft Worldwide Commercial Business executive vice-president Judson Althoff said: “For the energy industry, this is a time of significant transformation, and forward-thinking companies are exploring how to leverage technology to make their operations cleaner, safer and more efficient.

“By bringing together the domain expertise of Baker Hughes and the AI strengths of C3.ai to run on Microsoft’s Azure Cloud platform, customers can achieve new levels of digital transformation while advancing their sustainability commitments.”