When energy professionals get together, the talk is frequently about the need for more openness and greater collaboration within the industry to allow AI-related breakthroughs can be shared and implemented more rapidly. Technology and services giant SLB said it has created a platform to further that cause with its new SLB Digital Marketplace,
The platform is what SLB describes as a curated digital destination to help energy companies discover and deploy specialised AI agents, domain models, skills, tools, data connectors and digital applications within their existing digital environments.
In practice, that means using the company’s open platform strategy along with its Tela agentic AI assistant to enable SLB, its partners, independent software vendors, developers and customers to channel digital capabilities to the energy industry more effectively.
SLB said all offerings on the marketplace will be certified against SLB standards for security, interoperability and compatibility before listing.
The platform represents another step towards the wider adoption of agentic AI in the energy sector. SLB said companies need access to a broader ecosystem of specialised tools that work together across planning, operations, data and AI, as the industry moves towards using software to solve problems, act and automate tasks along complex technical workflows accelerates.
“No single company can build every agent, model or application the energy industry will need,” Rakesh Jaggi, president of SLB’s digital business said. He added that SLB had always built its digital platforms on the basis that the best technology ecosystem was an open one and that the Digital Marketplace was extending that philosophy.
Trusted environment
“The SLB Digital Marketplace brings together the energy industry’s most innovative minds, our own teams, our technology partners, and specialist developers worldwide in a single trusted environment where the best ideas can reach the people who need them most,” Jaggi said.
The marketplace includes some 200 digital products including SLB’s existing Ocean store solutions, along with new solutions from the company and more than 30 of its partners. Products include Delfi and Lumi SaaS applications, plug-ins, workflow extensions, data connectors, and Tela AI skills, agents and foundation models, according to SLB.
Through the marketplace, energy professionals can evaluate and access digital capabilities that extend workflows across SLB’s Delfi and Lumi digital platforms. SLB said this provided a structured path for developers, partners and ISVs to publish and scale solutions across the SLB ecosystem.
Olivier Le Peuch, SLB’s CEO, said AI in energy was shifting from promise to performance.
“The SLB Digital Marketplace is designed to accelerate that shift by creating an open ecosystem where innovation can scale, solutions can interoperate and customers can move faster from insight to action. This is how we translate AI into real performance across the energy system,” he said.
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