Intelligent automation for UpstreamAI to Enhance Oil and Gas Operations

UpstreamAI is Wipro’s next-generation, AI-powered suite of services that reimagines the upstream oil and gas value chain—from exploration to production—by delivering intelligent automation, domain-specific expertise, and data-centric innovation.

Delivered as modular, cloud-native service offerings, UpstreamAI services are designed to transform every stage of the upstream lifecycle. These services accelerate decision-making, reduce operational risk, and unlock new value for clients across exploration, drilling, and production. UpstreamAI’s service portfolio leverages domain-specific language models (SLMs) and expert agents to provide real-time insights through a unified, role-based dashboard tailored to client requirements.

UpstreamAI’s services empower energy clients to operate faster, smarter, and more sustainably. By embedding AI at the core of our service delivery, UpstreamAI shifts upstream operations from reactive to predictive, from siloed to integrated, and from manual to autonomous.

UpstreamAI puts intelligent automation and domain-specific insights at the fingertips of upstream engineers and decision-makers, revolutionizing how energy firms explore, drill, and produce across the entire energy value chain.

UpstreamAI’s services deliver a range of benefits, including:

Enhanced operational productivity across exploration, drilling, and production through expert-led automation and analytics
Improved asset performance and reduced time-to-first-oil, driven by proactive insights and decision support
Lower attrition of skilled workforce by augmenting teams with intelligent automation and advanced decision-making tools

UpstreamAI’s services span a wide spectrum of upstream use cases, such as subsurface analysis, well planning, drilling optimization, and production monitoring. Energy firms have a transformative opportunity to unlock new value through intelligent data solutions. With UpstreamAI’s domain-specific agents and AI-first architecture, upstream operators can build the digital foundation for a bold, data-driven operational model, generate actionable insights, and deliver those insights in real time to engineers, geoscientists, and field teams alike.

Key Capabilities

Intelligent Asset & Subsurface Analytics

UpstreamAI integrates exploration and production data into AI-powered knowledge graphs that uncover high-potential prospects, predict asset performance, and identify operational risks across the upstream lifecycle.

Hyper-Personalized Field Decision Support

UpstreamAI enhances engineering and field operations with tailored recommendations for well design, drilling optimization, and production strategies driven by domain-specific AI agents and real-time data.

Unified Operational Intelligence Hub

UpstreamAI orchestrates seismic interpretation, drilling, and production workflows through a unified interface powered by domain-specific AI agents. It actively learns from subsurface and surface data to deliver real-time, predictive insights to geoscientists, engineers, and field teams.

Enhanced Efficiency & Automation

Engineers and planners can automate routine tasks like well planning, drilling prognosis, and flow assurance analysis, reducing manual effort by up to 70% and accelerating time-to-first-oil.

How it Works

UpstreamAI is a comprehensive suite of purpose-built services for the upstream oil and gas sector. Through the integration of domain-specific AI agents, advanced analytics, and industry-standard data models, UpstreamAI’s service offerings transform exploration, drilling, and production workflows for clients. These services are designed to unlock value from siloed operational data and deliver real-time, actionable insights to engineers, geoscientists, and field operators.

UpstreamAI’s services are powered by a robust ecosystem that leverages both internal and external data sources, proprietary AI models, and strategic partnerships with hyperscalers and oilfield service providers. This enables clients to benefit from cutting-edge technology, deep industry expertise, and seamless collaboration across the upstream value chain.

Operational Data Lakes

Ingests and harmonizes structured and unstructured data from seismic surveys, well logs, drilling reports, SCADA systems, and production monitoring tools—aligned with Open Sub-surface Data Universe (OSDU) standards for interoperability.

Domain-Specific AI Agents

Purpose-built agents for each upstream phase:
Subsurface Agent: Automates seismic interpretation and prospect ranking.
Drilling Agent: Enhances well design, drilling prognosis, and real-time support.
Production Agent: Optimizes flow assurance, asset integrity, and emissions tracking.

Domain Small Language Model (SLM)

Wipro’s proprietary upstream-trained SLM that understands domain-specific terminology, workflows, and decision logic enabling contextual recommendations and intelligent automation.

Partner Ecosystem

Interoperable with leading platforms and partners including Microsoft Azure, Halliburton, SLB ensuring seamless deployment and scalability across client environments.

By unlocking the full potential of upstream data and embedding AI into every decision point, UpstreamAI empowers energy firms to reduce time-to-first-oil, optimize CapEx, and drive sustainable operations turning raw field data into strategic advantage.

UpstreamAI Accelerator

Our accelerators deliver seamless, real-time, domain-specific insights across upstream workflows to enhance decision-making, operationalefficiency, and asset performance for energy industry stakeholders. Clients benefit from intelligent agents trained on upstream data, Open Sub-surface Data Universe (OSDU)-aligned knowledge graphs, predictive models, and GenAI-powered automation. These accelerators are designed totransform raw field data into strategic advantage effortlessly and at scale.

Value Discovery Consulting

Business-driven, KPI-led consulting approach for developing robust business cases.

Small Language Models

GenAI and domain-specific language models powering intelligent, agent-led automation.

Supply Chain Optimization

AI-driven solution for predictive insights, autonomous operations, and measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and sustainability.

Connected Frontline Worker

Gen-AI enabled solution for autonomous task execution by frontline workers.

AI on the Edge

GenAI-enabled edge architecture delivering autonomous task execution and real-time decision-making for frontline operations.

AI-Driven Data Integration

Unifying energy data through OSDU standards and intelligent AI agents for faster insights and smarter decisions.

What We Think

Transforming Oil & Gas: The Edge AI Revolution

The upstream oil and gas sector is undergoing a seismic shift. Market volatility, environmental regulations, and the relentless push for efficiency are driving the need for smarter, faster, and safer operations.

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