Wintershall Dea Works with IBM to Ramp Up AI Initiatives Across its Organization

Wintershall Dea, one of the leading independent natural gas and oil companies in Europe that is now evolving into a leading gas and carbon management company, is working with IBM Consulting to establish an AI Center of Competence (CoC) while progressing multiple value-generating AI use cases that support an efficient energy production.

Together, both companies maintain strong relationships with Microsoft as a technology partner: On the one hand, Wintershall Dea was already using Microsoft Azure for its data platform while IBM Consulting maintains a collaboration with Microsoft for delivering data and AI projects based on Azure.

«We are exchanging more data internally and externally than in the past,» says Kathrin Dufour, Senior Vice President of Digitization and Technology at Wintershall Dea. «And a smooth and efficient data exchange is a crucial process for us as we are working in a standardized environment, and we want to make cooperation within our ecosystem as easy as possible. Harnessing AI is key to reach this goal.»