Enterprise Knowledge Search · Predictive Maintenance
bp needs safer, faster, data-informed operations across oil and gas, retail, and facilities while handling data volumes that specialists cannot review manually, including seismic datasets, well design options, and operational status across thousands of fuel and industrial assets.
Reported impact
bp reports that AI is already driving operational value by speeding well design, supporting more informed operational decisions, enabling predictive equipment interventions, and improving efficiency across oil and gas, trading, and retail operations.
bp is deploying AI across operational workflows rather than as a single application. The company is building a unified data platform with Databricks and Palantir so essential statistical and operational data from assets around the world can be made accessible wherever it is needed inside bp. On top of that foundation, teams use generative AI through Palantir's Foundry and Microsoft copilot to support daily work, search internal operational questions, and interpret patterns in equipment and performance data. In field operations, AI helps engineers evaluate hundreds of well trajectories in less than a day instead of taking weeks or months. bp also describes using the same data-and-AI approach to monitor fuel pumps and gas compressors, predict when equipment is about to go offline, and initiate actions to keep assets running. The wider architecture is cloud-first, with most corporate data already in the cloud and expanded HPC capacity supporting compute-heavy workloads such as seismic imaging.
Operational and statistical data from bp assets, gas stations, facilities, and subsurface workflows is brought into a unified data platform built with Databricks and Palantir. Employees query that shared foundation through Palantir's Foundry and Microsoft copilot, and AI analyzes patterns in the data to return operational answers or predictions such as impending equipment outages so teams can act.
"AI can look for and interpret patterns, predict when a pump is about to go offline and initiate the actions to keep the equipment running."
"Many of our teams are already using Gen AI on a daily basis – whether as part of Palantir’s Foundry or Microsoft copilot."
"Previously, it took weeks or even months to do this. Now, in less than a day, we can cycle through hundreds of trajectories to pick the best one."
"To get there, we’re building a unified data platform with two brilliant partners, Databricks and Palantir."
"We’re cloud first – over 95% of our data is on the cloud; we’re quadrupling the capacity of our high performance computing centre."
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