ADNOC-Backed AIQ Pushes Abroad After Launching Genesis AI System for Energy at ADIPEC

Chief executive Dennis Jol said the company used the November 2 to 5 event in Abu Dhabi to launch Genesis, sign agreements with international technology providers and agree a Genesis engagement with a domestic customer, in an interview with TahawulTech published on Friday. He did not name the partners or the customer. "The country is moving from importing technology to exporting it," Jol said.

The push gives an early read on whether UAE-built industrial AI can sell outside the home market that produced it. AIQ has spent years developing tools on ADNOC's fields and data, and its executives now say the products are ready to be scoped, piloted and scaled with other operators.

Where AIQ Is Selling

The largest foreign contract Jol described is in India, where AIQ has what he called a large-scale, multi-year commercial computer vision engagement with a leading industrial conglomerate. In October, AIQ executives told Sky News Arabia that the Indian project would put the company's systems on more than 1 million cameras across more than 160 sites, including refineries and fuel stations, as well as 10,000 shops.

Jol said AIQ also has work at different stages in Egypt, Kuwait, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Colombia, and sees significant opportunities in North America. Semafor reported in October that the company had made its first hire in the UK, was considering Houston among other locations and had identified 100 potential acquisition targets.

The company's best-documented product is RoboWell, an autonomous well control system. AIQ says it is deployed across more than 500 wells and has delivered up to 30% optimisation in gas-lift consumption, the gas injected into wells to help lift oil to the surface. The figures are the company's own and have not been independently verified.

What Genesis Is Meant to Do

Chief technology officer Saravan Penubarthi described Genesis as a single layer in which operators deploy, run and maintain models, agents, computing, data stores and data flows. "Coordination has to be designed in, not bolted on," he said. He said more than 40 models and agents across seven capabilities are running inside it with operators on real assets, and that AIQ's models are trained on more than 40 petabytes of field data rather than synthetic data.

AIQ began building Genesis early this year to deal with fragmented systems and data in the energy industry, according to Sky News Arabia. Semafor reported that the system is designed not to depend on any single model provider such as OpenAI or Anthropic.

Penubarthi pointed to TradeX, AIQ's trading intelligence platform, as an example of agents working together. Three agents covering markets, brokers and operations monitor seven live channels and turn more than 1,400 data feeds into risk-scored trading opportunities in under a minute, each with written reasoning, a confidence score and an audit trail. "TradeX proposes, the trader approves," he said.

The executives said agents should act only within limits set by engineers and on repetitive, well-bounded tasks, with significant human oversight for novel conditions and anything safety-critical.

AIQ said in October that it had completed pilots in eight markets and was negotiating to turn them into operating contracts, with private-sector customers moving faster than government-regulated ones, according to Sky News Arabia. How many of those pilots become paying deployments outside the UAE will be the clearest test of the strategy Jol laid out this week.