TotalEnergies and Mistral have announced a three-year joint program involving an investment of more than €100 million to develop a new generation of frontier AI models for TotalEnergies’ geosciences experts. The initiative will focus on supporting the exploration, characterization and development of oil and gas reservoirs, with reservoir exploration emerging as a key application of the collaboration.
The program will combine artificial intelligence with TotalEnergies’ extensive geoscience expertise and subsurface data to improve how complex information is analyzed and interpreted. In particular, the partnership will use the latest advances in artificial intelligence, including agentic AI, to work with next to 10 petaflops of data alongside nearly a century of knowledge, know-how and expertise accumulated by TotalEnergies in geosciences and reservoir engineering. The companies aim to create frontier models capable of integrating, processing and interpreting large volumes of information and generating multiple scenarios for developing exploration opportunities. The models are also intended to help optimize and extend the life of existing projects.
Joint Laboratory to Develop Tailored AI Solutions
As part of the initiative, TotalEnergies and Mistral will establish a joint scientific laboratory. The facility will bring together the subsurface know-how and expertise of TotalEnergies’ subsurface teams with the scientific and technological capabilities of Mistral, a European AI champion. The collaboration is designed to develop solutions tailored to the specific needs of the Company’s businesses, while strengthening the use of AI across activities involving reservoir exploration and reservoir engineering. By combining its subsurface expertise and data with Mistral’s AI capabilities, TotalEnergies intends to develop tools that can support experts when dealing with complex datasets and evaluating different development scenarios.
Strengthening a European AI and Digital Ecosystem
The partnership with Mistral will also strengthen TotalEnergies’ AI solutions ecosystem through the development of proprietary models within a European digital ecosystem. The arrangement will allow TotalEnergies to leverage its strategic subsurface data while supporting Mistral’s further development as a European AI champion.
“Exploration and reservoir engineering are among the areas where artificial intelligence can create the greatest value for our activities. By combining a century of geoscience data, the expertise of our teams and Mistral’s capabilities, we aim to develop a new generation of tools capable of supporting our experts in analyzing the most complex data and in their decision-making. This partnership also illustrates our commitment to contributing to the development of a high-performing European digital ecosystem, supporting our competitiveness” said Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TotalEnergies.
“We are delighted to take our collaboration with TotalEnergies to the next level. This project demonstrates the ability of our models to support complex industrial processes and adapt to the most demanding scientific and energy challenges. It also highlights the strength of Europe’s industrial ecosystem and the importance for large enterprises of adopting state-of-the-art, customizable AI solutions that protect and respect their intellectual property,” said Arthur Mensch, Co-founder and CEO of Mistral.
