SLB has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with Shell to develop digital and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions aimed at driving performance and efficiency gains across upstream operations for the industry.

The partnership will focus on developing agentic AI-powered solutions to accelerate and amplify the capabilities of technical experts and decision makers in subsurface operations, well construction, and production.

The collaboration aims to develop and deploy an open data and AI infrastructure that unifies data and workflows across upstream operations in a secure digital environment using SLB’s Lumi data and AI platform, according to an SLB press release dated December 11, 2025.

The partnership will help inform Shell’s digital strategy and technology roadmap, promote mutual learning to support the company’s broader digital transformation, and contribute to the development of digital solutions that are commercially viable and broadly applicable across the industry, the release noted.

Rakesh Jaggi, President of SLB’s Digital Business, stated that the energy industry is being reshaped by digital and AI technologies. He added that working with industry leaders like Shell enables the company to accelerate the development of advanced digital and agentic AI solutions.

The collaboration represents a long-standing relationship between the two companies. Earlier in 2025, SLB announced a technical partnership to deploy its Petrel subsurface software across Shell’s assets worldwide to standardize infrastructure and workflows and accelerate scalable digital solutions, helping to improve cost operating efficiencies, according to the release.

SLB is a global energy technology company with operations in more than 100 countries, providing services across oil and natural gas production, digital solutions, decarbonization technologies, and new energy systems.