Energy / Oil and gas
Aramco: A portfolio of AI based operational improvements
- Company
- Aramco
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Adoption stage
- In operation
- Source published
- Date basis
- The date the source was published. It can differ from the date adoption started.
- How the source was checked
- Read the full source text
The work problem
Aramco runs large facilities spanning exploration, drilling, production and refining. In a business like this it is hard to tell whether newly introduced technology actually paid off. The company decided to measure separately the value its technology created once deployed into operations, and it calls this indicator Technology Realized Value, or TRV.
Technology and data
TRV is calculated as capital or operating cost avoided, or as revenue increased by deployed technology, expressed as an increment against a business baseline. The indicator is verified by an external body. A representative case using AI is the Aramco Intelligent Live Earth Model. This model optimises well placement and widens reservoir contact in geosteering work. PE.AI is an AI based platform that generates synthetic well log data. The company explained that it also greatly increased its AI computing capacity to run real-time advisory systems and advanced analytics.
Results
Aramco disclosed that it produced 5.3 billion dollars of TRV in 2025. Of that, 2.6 billion dollars came from AI based solutions and 2.7 billion dollars from non-AI technology. It said cumulative TRV since 2023 is 11.3 billion dollars. It said the Aramco Intelligent Live Earth Model increased reservoir contact by about 10 percent and cut average drilling time per well by two days. It said AI half-precision computing capacity exceeded 570 PetaFLOPs, ten times the previous year.
Limits and open questions
TRV is a value the company calculates and an external body verifies, and it is different from accounting net profit. Reading the whole 5.3 billion dollars as an AI result would be wrong.
Sources
- ara 2025 results english.pdfaramco.com, Accessed
- Aramco announces fourth quarter and full-year 2025 results | Aramcoaramco.com, Accessed
Compiled from public sources. These are not results from ATF Works customers.