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March 2026

BAKER HUGHES ANNUAL MEETING IN FLORENCE, JANUARY 2026

• Improving production “double digits” at ENI with digital tools - digital tools for production could have as big an impact on the industry as the invention of horizontal drilling and fracking, says Paul Madero of Baker Hughes
• Baker Hughes Kantori digital solution for well construction - designed to autonomously do well planning, monitoring and optimisation as well as drilling. Dr Matthias Gatzen explained
• How geothermal is growing - seeing a helping hand from the US data centre market, which wants 24-7 low carbon power. Baker Hughes’ geothermal lead Will Pettitt explained
• How US geothermal projects have become viable - with hunger for low carbon baseload power from data centres, government incentives, and reducing costs. Rod Colwell of Controlled Thermal Resources explained
• Clean tech investment up 8 per cent in 2025 says BloombergNEF - including 4.5% growth in the Americas, something you may not have expected
• Nicolas Terraz, head of E&P with TotalEnergies explained how he sees energy markets developing - the certainties and uncertainties, TotalEnergies’ investment plans, and how it uses AI
• Baker Hughes “rewriting energy equation” - to find better ways to achieve industrial outcomes in energy, achieve more from existing infrastructure and develop new innovations, said CEO Lorenzo Simonelli

• What we can do with agentic AI - following a definition of ‘something which works out the best way to get an outcome and evaluates its results’, it can work in documentation, coding, and some data tasks, says Thoughtworks
• Using AI to integrate data - Many companies want to get insights drawing from multiple systems. LLMS can be an easier way to do this. A PIDX webinar with Yasmine Gardiner and Yasmine Gardiner discussed how this can be done
• How Shell’s startup bootcamp works - connecting startup companies with mentors in Shell, who guide them to develop businesses which may assist Shell, its customers, or suppliers, they explained in a Globuc webinar
• Equinor, SAP and Accenture shared perspectives on how Europe can stay competitive in AI, speaking at an FT event. Europe may not compete in running data centres, but it can compete in AI for competitiveness
• Using open software defined automation - ExxonMobil, Wood, Kongsberg Maritime and Schneider Electric have staff on the board of UniversalAutomation.org, a body supporting development of a standard

• How AkerBP uses barrier management for OT cybersecurity - a technique more commonly seen for physical risk management. Cybersecurity engineer Ragnar Heksem explained how it works
• How a "top 5 oil and gas producer" reduced OT security labour costs 70% with Rockwell Automation tools