Tela™ agentic-AI assistant catalog
Find Tela assistant workflows by discipline, technical task, and host application—from data discovery and subsurface interpretation to drilling, production, and sustainability.
What is Tela agentic-AI assistant?
Tela™ agentic-AI assistant combines domain expertise with digital intelligence to support your workflows across the energy life cycle. Whether you’re tackling routine tasks or complex challenges, Tela assistant adapts to your needs.
With Tela assistant, you interact naturally—no rigid commands, just free-flowing conversation as you collaborate to solve problems. Whether you need to interpret well data, drill a well, or predict and prevent ESP failures, Tela assistant is your partner in achieving more, every step of the way.
Tela assistant values
Unlock enterprise data
Turn fragmented data across subsurface, drilling, production, and enterprise systems into a single source of trusted insight.
Boost expert productivity
Spend less time on routine tasks and more time on high-value decisions.
Accelerate technical decisions
Get answers in moments instead of days across subsurface, drilling, and production.
Solve harder problems
Tackle the complex, multidomain challenges where generic AI falls short, with physics, domain depth, and operational context built in.
Scale AI with confidence
Deploy AI across the enterprise on an open, secure platform that’s extensible to your own agents, partners, and future models.
The pressures shaping the industry
Energy companies are navigating a convergence of pressures:
- Market volatility and uncertainty.
- Financial discipline and capital efficiency.
- Net-zero commitments.
- Rising operational complexity.
- Fragmented data across subsurface, drilling, production, and enterprise systems.
No single technology addresses all five. AI is the only lever capable of acting across them at once, but only if it understands energy.
Why energy needs its own AI
AI is advancing faster than any technology in recent history. But in energy, impact is determined by whether AI can operate inside the complex, physics-driven realities of the industry.
Today most AI is built for general knowledge work. It is not designed to interpret subsurface data, reason about reservoir physics, or operate within drilling, production, and enterprise workflows.
Energy needs AI that combines:
- Domain expertise across subsurface, drilling, production, and operations.
- Physics-informed reasoning grounded in engineering principles.
- Operational context from live assets and field environments.
- Trusted enterprise knowledge secured within company boundaries.
- Data visualization that turns complex asset, production, and operational signals into clear, actionable insights.
- Human-in-the-loop workflows where engineers, geoscientists, and operations teams validate, guide, and approve AI recommendations before execution.
Without these, AI in energy produces plausible answers, not reliable decisions.
Introducing the Tela agentic-AI assistant, the first designed for the energy industry
Tela assistant is purpose-built for the energy industry.
By combining trusted data, domain intelligence, and specialized AI agents, Tela assistant helps users move from questions to decisions, and from decisions to outcomes.
From data and subsurface interpretation to drilling, production, and energy transition, Tela assistant works across the energy life cycle to solve complex technical and operational challenges at enterprise scale. Built on decades of SLB expertise and powered by the next generation of agentic AI, Tela assistant transforms complex energy data into trusted insights, intelligent actions, and measurable business impact.
Tela assistant features
Specializes in energy
Built for the physics, data, and workflows energy demands.
Reasons across the value chain
From subsurface to surface, Tela assistant not only answers—it plans and acts.
Open and secure by design
Extensible across applications, models, and partners.
Trusted at enterprise scale
Grounded in your data and secured within your enterprise—credible where decisions carry real-world consequences.
Advanced agentic workflows
Specialized agents collaborate across disciplines and workflows.
Explore agentic AI for energy
Discover how the Tela™ agentic-AI assistant combines domain-aware AI, physics-based workflows, and SLB digital solutions to support technical and operational decision-making.
Download the latest brochure to explore 33 deployment-ready workflows across subsurface, drilling, production, facilities, and sustainability. Learn how the Lumi™ data and AI platform and Innovation Factori™ enable you to develop, integrate, and scale agentic AI—with practical guidance, customer evidence, and human oversight.
- Explore embedded and tailored agentic-AI workflows.
- Understand the technology and ecosystem behind Tela.
- Review the Petoro and SLB well-planning case study.
- Learn how Innovation Factori teams move ideas toward deployment.
- Build familiarity with essential agentic-AI terminology.
Explore Tela assistant solutions
Request a demonstrationTela assistant for subsurface and data
In subsurface workflows, every decision drives performance. With agentic AI, complexity becomes clarity. Contextual guidance and natural-language interrogation of data accelerate workflow understanding and automate visualization, removing friction at every step. Agentic AI-assisted import and log prediction transform data preparation and interpretation, reducing effort by an order of magnitude and improving insight into uncertainty. What once took weeks now takes seconds—enabling faster, more consistent decisions from planning to production. Tela assistant turns subsurface insight into action.
Tela assistant seismic foundational model
Agentic AI is redefining how exploration happens. As your intelligent assistant, Tela assistant transforms complex subsurface data into clear, confident decisions. Powered by our domain foundation models and built on decades of seismic and exploration expertise, it uncovers hidden geophysical insights with speed and precision. By combining human expertise with AI-driven intelligence, Tela assistant streamlines workflows, reduces manual effort, and empowers geoscientists to focus on higher-value opportunities. The result is faster insight, stronger confidence, and amplified performance across exploration.
Tela assistant for production
Production is entering the era of agency, where AI agents work continuously to keep assets at peak performance. Tela assistant identifies root causes of underperformance in real time using advanced time-series models to detect anomalies, optimize wells, and reduce downtime. Adaptive and explainable, it recommends next-best actions and adjusts plans instantly to drive efficiency and recovery. The result—smarter operations, faster decisions, and maximized production performance.
Tela assistant agentic intelligence
Insight workflows
Conversational experiences inferencing domain data.
Advisor workflows
Agents powered by domain foundation models to execute workflows and recommend the best.
Autonomous workflows
Agentic framework supporting domain decision making, enabling them to take direct actions.
Tela assistant experience model
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Introducing Tela assistant—FAQs
General questions
What is Tela agentic-AI assistant and what does it do?
Tela is our unified AI brand and the first-ever oil and gas AI assistant. It integrates seamlessly across our digital products and platforms, providing energy professionals with a trusted AI partner. Tela leverages generative AI and agentic AI to simplify and automate tasks, enabling users to work more efficiently and effectively.
Tela agentic-AI assistant can:
- Simplify and automate tasks.
- Interpret complex data, such as wellbore and seismic data.
- Predict equipment health and take preventative actions.
- Collaborate with users to optimize outcomes driven workflows.
- Provide domain-specific visualizations like wellbore schematics and seismic viewers.
How is Tela different from other AI solutions?
Unlike generic AI solutions, Tela is specifically designed for the energy industry. It incorporates a century of SLB domain expertise, proprietary software, and advanced AI technologies, including large language models (LLMs) and domain foundation models (DFMs). It’s agentic AI agents are capable of autonomous decision-making, dynamic workflow adjustments, and delivering outcomes-based solutions tailored to the energy sector..
Technical questions
What is agentic AI?
Agentic AI represents the next evolution of AI, where multi-AI agents can autonomously handle dynamic workflows, decompose tasks, and make decisions to achieve specific objectives. Agentic AI leverages LLMs and DFMs to understand domain-specific contexts, generate insights, and adapt workflows in real time based on observed outcomes.
How does agentic AI work?
Agentic AI operates through a five-step process:
- Observation: Gathers information from its environment.
- Planning: Decides what needs to be done and breaks goals into actionable steps.
- Content creation: Uses traditional AI and generative AI to create content.
- Action: Performs tasks using digital tools or other agents.
- Learning: Reviews outcomes, adjusts plans, and improves for future tasks. .
What are LLMs and DFMs, and how do they support agentic AI?
LLMs are a subset of generative AI models specifically trained on vast amounts of text data. These typically consist of billions of parameters that have learned patterns in human language and are currently the most popular types of foundational models.
DFMs are specialized AI models trained on large amounts of domain-specific data (e.g., log foundation model, seismic foundation model). These models can run complex downstream domain tasks and are likened to domain experts. They often use an existing model as a base and then extend it by training on specific domain datasets through a process called “fine-tuning.”
Agentic AI systems use a powerful combination of LLMs and DFMs to dynamically adjust tasks and workflows based on new inputs and outcomes, moving beyond static and predefined traditional workflows.
- LLMs as the "brain": LLMs provide the reasoning, planning, and communication engine. They are responsible for understanding the high-level operational goal, breaking it into actionable steps, and coordinating the overall workflow.
- DFMs as the "specialist": DFMs provide domain-specific expertise. They are responsible for analyzing raw operational data (geology, production history, maintenance logs) and providing a highly accurate, technical assessment to the LLM's planning engine.
What is the Lumi platform, and how does it relate to Tela?
The Lumi platform is the enabling infrastructure for Tela. It provides the technical foundation to build, integrate, and orchestrate AI agents within Tela. The Lumi platform ensures that Tela agents are not tied to specific applications, enabling them to operate across disciplines and organizations.
Customer value and differentiation
How does Tela benefit customers?
Tela equips customers with trusted, scalable, and deeply relevant solutions that combine human ingenuity with intelligent autonomy, ensuring operational excellence and enabling transformative results in the energy sector.
Agentic AI empowers customers, by transcending traditional intelligence to deliver proactive, self-learning agency that drives transformative outcomes across the energy value chain. By combining cutting-edge AI technology with a century of SLB domain expertise, agentic AI redefines industry standards, ensuring precision, efficiency, and adaptability in an era of rapid change.
Optimized systems for greater recovery
Agentic AI shifts the paradigm from optimizing individual functions to orchestrating entire systems, unlocking unparalleled efficiency and recovery. Its autonomous, self-learning capabilities solve complex challenges at scale, aligning workflows with business objectives for transformative operational impact.
Amplifying human value through collaboration
By working in harmony with humans, agentic AI acts as a force multiplier, alleviating repetitive tasks, minimizing latency, and enabling talent to focus on strategic, high-value activities. This dynamic partnership not only addresses talent shortages but also fosters new competencies, ensuring operational scalability and continuity.
Trust built on a century of expertise
Rooted in 100 years of proprietary knowledge and innovation, agentic AI’s foundation models deliver unmatched precision and relevance for the energy sector. This heritage of expertise inspires trust and confidence, empowering customers with AI solutions tailored to the industry’s unique demands.
Automation across the value chain
From routine tasks to complex workflows, agentic AI automates processes end-to-end, empowering less experienced users while augmenting the efficiency of seasoned professionals. By autonomously gathering data, analyzing it, and executing decisions, it delivers consistent, scalable, and efficient workflows across operations.
How does Tela ensure trust and security?
Tela is built on SLB engineered AI principles, which emphasize trust, security, and reliability. These principles ensure that Tela delivers solutions that are robust, secure, and tailored to the energy industry’s unique needs.
Deploy Tela assistant across your energy workflows
AI is transforming how technical teams analyze data and make operational decisions. Tela assistant helps organizations deploy domain-trained agentic AI assistants that automate workflows and accelerate insight across the energy enterprise.