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Issue 01  ·  July 2026
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Issue 01: The Autonomy Issue
Issue 01 July 2026
The Feature
AIQ built a well control system that runs with no human in the loop. It is already live on more than 500 wells.

AIQ is a joint venture between ADNOC and Presight that has spent six years building AI for one industry only. Their closed loop system adjusts gas injection and choke settings in real time on its own, and a new $340 million contract is taking it to 28 more producing fields. From the Global Energy Show in Calgary.

Formation Autonomous AI  /  ADNOC
Also in this issue
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DataRobot: agentic AI that keeps working when the connection drops
Edge deployment for rigs and remote sites that cannot afford to stop working because a satellite link went down. Tied to a new Chevron partnership on autonomous inspection.
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Data2: the company that patented not hallucinating
A veteran owned AI company holding a patent on hallucination resistant, explainable AI, with every answer traceable back to its source.
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The Pulse: what moved in AI and energy this issue
Chevron and Microsoft's 20 year gas deal for AI data centres, Pembina's Greenlight plant in Alberta, and the research showing only 13 percent of operators have actually deployed agentic AI so far.
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