Global energy technology company SLB has unveiled Tela™, an agentic artificial intelligence (AI) assistant designed to revolutionize the upstream energy sector by enhancing productivity and decision-making across exploration and production workflows.
Tela integrates into SLB’s portfolio of applications and platforms, allowing users to interact through a conversational interface. In an announcement on Monday, the company said the system serves as a proactive collaborator, augmenting the workforce to achieve greater productivity and efficiency at scale.
The platform follows a five-step agentic AI loop — observe, plan, generate, act and learn — enabling it to adapt to new data and continuously improve performance. SLB said Tela agents can work alongside humans or autonomously to interpret well logs, predict drilling issues, and optimize equipment performance for faster and smarter outcomes.
“Technology like Tela marks a paradigm shift in how AI supports the energy industry, from subsurface to operations,” President of Digital and Integration at SLB, Rakesh Jaggi, said. “Today, the industry faces a dual challenge: a leaner workforce and increased technical complexity, and Tela can address both. Tela doesn’t just automate tasks — it can understand goals, make decisions and take action,” he added.
Powered by SLB’s Lumi™ data and AI platform, Tela leverages large language models (LLMs) and domain foundation models (DFMs) to interpret energy-specific contexts, generate insights, and adapt workflows in real time. Through Lumi’s framework, customers can build and manage their own Tela agents, integrate partner-developed solutions, and tailor the assistant to specific operational goals.
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“The real promise of agentic AI isn’t just faster workflows — it’s the ability to see the whole system, anticipate what’s next, and act with confidence, learning through the process and transforming workflows for better enterprise-level outcomes,” Jaggi stated.
Tela is now available across SLB’s software applications and platforms and can be deployed on cloud or on-premises systems.
As a prominent service provider, SLB extends substantial technical support to ExxonMobil, particularly in the Stabroek Block, facilitating the proving of hydrocarbon reserves.
In 2017, SLB (then known as Schlumberger) made a substantial investment, establishing a lasting presence in Guyana with the opening of its US$75 million oil services facility in Houston.
