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TotalEnergies
Experimenting- Energy
- 101,513 staff
- Digital Factory, ~500 experts
- Copilot for staff
- €100M+ Mistral lab (Sep 2026)
- No AI return reported
TotalEnergies deploys AI through its Digital Factory, about 500 digital and AI specialists in France and India who build the company's own applications, and through bought tools: Microsoft 365 Copilot for staff and Cognite and AspenTech data platforms on its industrial sites. In Sep 2026 TotalEnergies committed more than €100 million over 3 years to a joint lab with Mistral that builds frontier AI models for exploration and reservoir engineering. TotalEnergies has reported no cost, revenue or production return it credits to AI.
totalenergies.comTheir approach to AI
- The platform
- TotalEnergies builds its own AI applications in the Digital Factory, about 500 digital and AI experts in France and India who have built nearly 100 solutions since 2020, on industrial data platforms bought from Cognite and AspenTech (2025 annual report, Mar 2026).
- The models
- TotalEnergies runs more than 10,000 live AI models of its own, gives staff Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio agents, and is building frontier subsurface models with Mistral under a program of more than €100 million announced in Sep 2026.
- The reach
- Microsoft reported in Oct 2025 that TotalEnergies had rolled out 30,000 Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses, out of 101,513 employees at the end of 2025; TotalEnergies' own annual report describes only a gradual provision of licenses, with no count.
- The catch
- TotalEnergies has reported no cost, revenue or production figure it credits to AI. Patrick Pouyanné spoke in Feb 2026 of gaining 1% to 2% of plant availability through better maintenance, an aim, and said he was skeptical about AI in the subsurface, the area the Sep 2026 Mistral program targets.
Snapshot
- Employees
- 101,513
- Dec 31, 2025, against 102,887 a year earlier
- Technology budget
- $1B+ (2025)
- R&D, industrial innovation and digital combined; digital about 30%; R&D alone $810M
- AI/ML headcount
- ~500 in the Digital Factoryest.
- Digital and AI experts in France and India (Mar 2026); an India center targets at least 500 engineers by 2027
- Who owns AI
- Namita Shah, President OneTech
- Executive Committee member; CDO Frédéric Gimenez heads the Digital Line and the Digital Factory
- Platform
- Digital Factory, built in-house
- On Cognite and AspenTech data platforms; Copilot and Copilot Studio for staff
- Models
- In-house ML, Microsoft Copilot, Mistral
- Frontier subsurface models with Mistral in development from Sep 2026
- Reach
- 30,000 Copilot licensesest.
- Microsoft customer story, Oct 2025; not published by TotalEnergies
- Use cases
- Nearly 100 digital solutions since 2020
- 60% incorporate AI (2025 annual report, which elsewhere says half)
Key findings
TotalEnergies has reported no cost, revenue or production figure it credits to AI; on the Feb 11, 2026 results call Patrick Pouyanné put AI's prize at 1% to 2% more plant availability from better maintenance and said he was skeptical about AI in the subsurface.
TotalEnergies and Mistral announced on Sep 15, 2026 a 3-year program of more than €100 million to build frontier AI models for exploration and reservoir engineering, with a joint laboratory, extending a Jun 2025 innovation lab deal.
TotalEnergies' Digital Factory had about 500 digital and AI experts in France and India by the 2025 annual report (Mar 2026), up from 300 in Jun 2025, and its nearly 100 solutions since 2020 run on more than 10,000 live AI models.
Microsoft reported in Oct 2025 that TotalEnergies had rolled out 30,000 Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses and Copilot Studio agents such as MARGE for maintenance and BuyerCompanion for purchasing, while TotalEnergies' own 2025 annual report gives no license count.
TotalEnergies spent 2025 building data foundations for AI, signing AspenTech Inmation for real-time data across its industrial sites in Jul 2025 and Cognite for all operated upstream assets in Sep 2025, and ordered the Pangea 5 supercomputer, 6 times today's computing power, for 2027.
Where TotalEnergies sits
- Stage
- Experimenting
TotalEnergies has reported no business return it credits to AI since May 2025, for any use case or for the company. On the Feb 11, 2026 results call Patrick Pouyanné described AI's prize as 1% to 2% more plant availability from better maintenance, an aim with no result attached, and Namita Shah, citing process control tests on production assets, said even a 1% to 2% production gain would be enormous, a hope credited to digital in general; the $7.5 billion savings program for 2026 to 2030 is not credited to AI. TotalEnergies has also reported no company-wide AI rollout with a user count: the figure of 30,000 Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses comes from a Microsoft customer story (Oct 2025), while TotalEnergies' 2025 annual report speaks only of a gradual provision of Copilot licenses. TotalEnergies sits at Experimenting on its in-window AI work, led by the Mistral subsurface program (Sep 2026), MethaneLive (Jun 2026), Pangea 5 (May 2026) and the Cognite and AspenTech data platforms (2025); one cost, revenue or production figure TotalEnergies credits to AI, or a Copilot user count published by TotalEnergies with a named owner, would move TotalEnergies to Piloting.
How the stages are defined - Ownership
- Namita Shah, President OneTech, on the Executive Committee; CDO Frédéric Gimenez runs the Digital Line
- Platform
- Hybrid: Digital Factory builds in-house; Copilot, Cognite and AspenTech bought
- Models
- In-house ML models, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Mistral frontier models in development
- Hosting
- Microsoft Azure and AWS clouds (partners since 2021), in-house supercomputers in Pau; Mistral model hosting not disclosed
- Reach
- 30,000 Copilot licenses (Microsoft, Oct 2025)
How they deploy
Data platforms first
TotalEnergies executives told investors on Feb 11, 2026 that there is no AI program without a strong data platform, and that TotalEnergies would multiply by 10 the data points collected on its assets and make them available in real time. TotalEnergies signed AspenTech Inmation for real-time data collection across its industrial sites in Jul 2025 and Cognite for all operated upstream assets in Sep 2025, with the data stack expected to be fully deployed by the end of 2027.
Top-down programs
TotalEnergies said in Feb 2026 that it had moved from a bottom-up to a top-down approach and concentrated AI on a few programs. The Summer 2026 shareholders' newsletter names 4 priorities: health, safety and environment; the digital plant, for performance and availability of industrial sites; AI for geosciences, exploration and reservoirs; and modeling for the Integrated Power business, including weather forecasting and electricity trading.
Build in-house, buy the tools
TotalEnergies builds its own applications in the Digital Factory, opened in 2020, which the 2025 annual report says develops, deploys and maintains applications for business units. TotalEnergies buys general-purpose tools: Microsoft 365 Copilot and Power Platform licenses for staff since 2024, Copilot Studio for agents, and industrial data platforms from Cognite and AspenTech.
European models for the subsurface
TotalEnergies chose Mistral, a French model developer, for a joint innovation lab in Jun 2025 and for a 3-year frontier model program for geosciences in Sep 2026. TotalEnergies said the Sep 2026 program creates proprietary models within a European digital ecosystem, and Patrick Pouyanné called exploration and reservoir engineering among the areas where AI can create the greatest value for TotalEnergies.
Talent in India
TotalEnergies is building a global competence center in India with its own staff and end-to-end accountability for its digital programs, aiming for at least 500 engineers by 2027, executives said on Feb 11, 2026. Patrick Pouyanné said the center offers competitive costs but is mainly about access to talent and speed.
- Deployment model
- TotalEnergies runs AI from OneTech, its technical branch of about 3,400 engineers, technicians and researchers led by Executive Committee member Namita Shah. Since Sep 2025 OneTech's Digital Line, headed by Chief Digital Officer Frédéric Gimenez, coordinates the branches' digital transformation plan, leads the Digital Plant and Digital for HSE programs, and builds applications through the Digital Factory, while Data & Digital Technologies runs the data infrastructure. TotalEnergies Global Information Technology Services rolled out Microsoft 365 Copilot and runs the Copilot Studio agent program, which an internal validation committee screens for value, architecture, cybersecurity and duplication (Microsoft, Oct 2025).
- Model providers
- TotalEnergies gives employees Microsoft 365 Copilot, deployed from Feb 2024 after a 300-person test from Sep 2023 and preceded by Bing Chat Enterprise in Aug 2023, and builds agents on Microsoft Copilot Studio. TotalEnergies has worked with Mistral since a Jun 2025 joint innovation lab, whose first use case was an assistant for its 1,000 researchers, and on Sep 15, 2026 the 2 launched a program of more than €100 million to build frontier models, drawing on agentic AI, for geoscientists. TotalEnergies also develops its own machine learning models: the 2025 annual report counts more than 10,000 live AI models, and TotalEnergies brought Predictive Layer's machine learning for energy price projections in-house after buying the company in Dec 2023.
- Data and infrastructure
- TotalEnergies chose AWS as a cloud provider for its Digital Factory in Jul 2021 and Microsoft Azure for digital transformation projects and the Digital Factory in Mar 2021; the company has not said where its AI models run today, or where the Mistral models will be hosted. For subsurface and research computing TotalEnergies runs its own supercomputers at the Jean Féger Scientific and Technical Center in Pau, and on May 6, 2026 it ordered Pangea 5 from Dell Technologies and NVIDIA, an investment of more than €100 million that multiplies computing power by 6 when commissioned in 2027. TotalEnergies said in Jun 2025 that it would examine with Mistral the adoption of AI infrastructure in view of European digital sovereignty, after Patrick Pouyanné said in Apr 2025 that he was uneasy with a cloud market limited to Amazon, Microsoft and Google (Le Monde Informatique).
Platforms and internal tools
TotalEnergies Digital Factory2020
The Digital Factory is TotalEnergies' in-house software unit that builds, deploys and maintains digital applications for business units, mainly for industrial availability and cost, customer energy services and emissions. TotalEnergies says nearly 100 solutions have been built since 2020, 60% of them incorporating AI, which requires running more than 10,000 live AI models (2025 annual report, Mar 2026).
- Users
- About 500 digital and AI experts in France and India (Mar 2026)
Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio agentsFeb 2024
TotalEnergies deployed Microsoft 365 Copilot and Power Platform licenses to employees from Feb 2024 with training for every employee, and builds agents such as MARGE and BuyerCompanion on Copilot Studio. Microsoft reported in Oct 2025 that more than thirty agent applications were deployed or in development.
- Users
- 30,000 licenses (Microsoft, Oct 2025)
- Models
- Microsoft 365 Copilot
Cognite industrial data and AI platformExpanded Sep 2025
TotalEnergies is deploying Cognite's industrial data and AI platform over 3 years across all its operated upstream assets, from drilling to production, to make industrial data AI-ready and monitor critical equipment.
AspenTech Inmation data fabricJul 2025
TotalEnergies is rolling out Emerson's AspenTech Inmation over 2 years to collect and centralize millions of real-time data points from its industrial sites, with advanced process control, as the base for AI use cases.
MethaneLiveEarly 2026
MethaneLive is TotalEnergies' global methane monitoring center, combining data from about 13,000 sensors on operated upstream sites with algorithms to find fugitive emissions, their causes and fixes; TotalEnergies presents it as a base for agentic AI.
Pangea supercomputersPangea 5 ordered May 2026, in service 2027
TotalEnergies' in-house supercomputers in Pau run seismic imaging and research workloads; Pangea 5, built with Dell Technologies and NVIDIA GPUs, CPUs and InfiniBand, will support R&D uses of AI and integrated power models.
Vendors and partners
MistralJun 2025
Joint innovation lab and frontier subsurface model program · TotalEnergies and Mistral launched a 3-year program of more than €100 million on Sep 15, 2026 to build frontier models for exploration, reservoir characterization and field development, with a joint scientific laboratory.
MicrosoftMar 2021
Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio and Azure cloud · TotalEnergies picked Azure for digital transformation projects and the Digital Factory in Mar 2021, and Microsoft Industry Solutions helped deploy the MARGE maintenance agent.
Amazon Web ServicesJul 2021
Cloud provider for the Digital Factory
CogniteExpanded Sep 2025
Industrial data and AI platform across operated upstream assets
Emerson (AspenTech)Jul 2025
Inmation real-time data fabric and advanced process control · Emerson says its Aspen Technology business has worked with TotalEnergies for almost 30 years.
Dell Technologies and NVIDIAMay 2026
Pangea 5 supercomputer
HoneywellNov 2025
AI-assisted Experion Operations Assistant pilot at the Port Arthur refinery
Witivio
Helped build the BuyerCompanion purchasing agent on Copilot Studio
Leadership
AI, data and platform leaders
Executives
AI org map
Central digital line and software factory inside the technical branch, serving the business segments
TotalEnergies puts digital and AI inside OneTech, a cross-branch technical organization created in 2021 and led by Executive Committee member Namita Shah. OneTech set up a Digital Line in Sep 2025 beside its industrial, R&D and support hubs; the Digital Line, headed by Chief Digital Officer Frédéric Gimenez, coordinates the branches' digital plans and runs the Digital Factory and Data & Digital Technologies. Business segments such as Exploration & Production and Gas, Renewables & Power commission solutions through strategic programs.
TotalEnergies' AI workforce sits mainly in OneTech, the technical branch of about 3,400 engineers, technicians and researchers led by Namita Shah. The Digital Factory, under Frédéric Gimenez, had about 500 developers, data scientists and other digital and AI experts in France and India in the 2025 annual report, up from 300 in Jun 2025, and TotalEnergies is building an India competence center for at least 500 engineers by 2027; OneTech India in Bengaluru says it will grow to 500 employees by 2028, and TotalEnergies has not said how the two figures overlap. TotalEnergies has more than 3,500 researchers in R&D, whose Subsurface R&D line builds AI tools for exploration and production.
Reporting lines
Chairman and CEO
Patrick Pouyanné
OneTech
Namita Shah, President
About 3,400 engineers, technicians and researchers; Shah has also been President Asia since May 4, 2026
Digital Line
Frédéric Gimenez, Chief Digital Officer
Created Sep 2025; leads the Digital Plant and Digital for HSE programs
TotalEnergies Digital Factory
Frédéric Gimenez, Managing Director
About 500 digital and AI experts in France and India (Mar 2026)
Data & Digital Technologies
Data infrastructure, IoT, drones, robots and digital twins; works with Cognite and AspenTech
Research & Development hub
More than 3,500 researchers company-wide; the Subsurface R&D line builds AI tools for exploration and production
Exploration & Production
Nicolas Terraz, President
Gas, Renewables & Power
Stéphane Michel, President
TotalEnergies Global Information Technology Services
Olivier Lacroze, Director
Shared IT services; runs the Copilot rollout and agents. Reporting line not published
TotalEnergies' organization chart in the 2025 annual report places the Digital Line and the Chief Digital Officer inside OneTech; TotalEnergies has not published where Global Information Technology Services reports or which unit will run the India competence center.
Where the AI workforce sits
Digital Factory (OneTech Digital Line)
Estimate: about 500 digital and AI experts in Mar 2026 against a total AI and data workforce TotalEnergies has not published.
~50-60%R&D and technical lines (subsurface, integrated power modeling)
Estimate: TotalEnergies does not say how many of its 3,500+ researchers work on AI.
~20-30%IT services and business segment data teams
Estimate: Global Information Technology Services and branch teams that run Copilot, agents and trading models.
~15-25%
Named people
Use cases
TotalEnergies says nearly 100 digital solutions have been built since 2020, 60% of them with AI, running more than 10,000 live AI models, and its named AI use cases span maintenance, methane detection, subsurface interpretation, power trading, procurement, customer energy advice and office work. TotalEnergies has published no business return it credits to AI for any of them, and no firm-level AI figure; executives described AI's goal on the Feb 2026 results call as 1% to 2% more availability or production, a target, and Microsoft's figures for the MARGE and BuyerCompanion agents are a quality measure and an expected saving.
| Use case | Area | Status | ROI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft 365 Copilot for employees TotalEnergies gives employees Microsoft 365 Copilot and Power Platform licenses with training under the Digital Accelerator season of its Visa for TotalEnergies program. Microsoft reported 30,000 licenses in Oct 2025 and said 70% of employees use Copilot weekly and nearly half daily, without saying whether the share is of license holders or all staff. | Firmwide | In production | |
| MARGE maintenance agent MARGE, built on Copilot Studio with Microsoft Industry Solutions, reads and classifies maintenance intervention reports; Microsoft says it improved the identification of fault causes by 25% to 45%. | Industrial maintenance | In production | |
| BuyerCompanion purchasing agent BuyerCompanion drafts specifications, finds suppliers and framework agreements and checks compliance for purchases up to €50,000; it runs in France, could reach 15,000 staff worldwide, and Olivier Lacroze said it should save 10% on certain purchases (Oct 2025). | Procurement | In production | |
| Equipment monitoring and predictive maintenance TotalEnergies uses AI-driven systems to monitor nearly 3,000 pieces of equipment for early signs of degradation (Jun 2026), and Namita Shah said in Feb 2026 that connecting over 70% of equipment aims to cut breakdowns of small machines. | Exploration & Production | In production | |
| MethaneLive emissions detection MethaneLive combines about 13,000 sensors with algorithms to find fugitive methane emissions and recommend fixes, and had detected 35 emissions since early 2026 that TotalEnergies says conventional monitoring would have struggled to find (Jun 2026). | Exploration & Production | In production | |
| Seismic interpretation and reservoir modeling TotalEnergies has long used AI for subsurface analysis, and its Subsurface R&D line builds AI tools on in-house supercomputers to speed seismic imaging, field development and production monitoring. | Exploration & Production | In production | |
| Frontier geoscience models with Mistral A joint laboratory with Mistral is to build frontier models that combine nearly 10 petaflops of data with TotalEnergies' geoscience know-how to generate development scenarios for exploration and extend the life of existing fields. | Exploration & Production | Announced | |
| Weather and power price forecasting for trading TotalEnergies uses Predictive Layer's machine learning, brought in-house after a Dec 2023 acquisition, to project energy prices, and executives said in Feb 2026 that AI halves the time needed to forecast weather for short-term power trading. | Gas, Renewables & Power | In production | |
| Coach conso customer assistant Coach conso, a virtual assistant in the TotalEnergies app for French household customers, analyzes power consumption and gives personalized advice enhanced by generative AI. | Gas, Renewables & Power | In production | |
| AI control room assistant at Port Arthur TotalEnergies is piloting Honeywell's Experion Operations Assistant at its Port Arthur refinery in Texas; in a first pilot on the delayed coking unit it forecast 5 potential events an average of 12 minutes before an alarm (Nov 2025). | Refining & Chemicals | Pilot | |
| Assistant for researchers The first use case named for the Jun 2025 Mistral innovation lab is an assistant for TotalEnergies' 1,000 researchers working on new energies and the company's environmental footprint; TotalEnergies has not said whether it is in use. | R&D | Announced |
Adoption
TotalEnergies spread AI in 2 layers: machine learning in subsurface analysis, predictive maintenance and trading for many years, built since 2020 by the Digital Factory, and generative AI for office work from Aug 2023, when staff got Bing Chat Enterprise, followed by a 300-person Copilot test from Sep 2023 and a broad Microsoft 365 Copilot deployment from Feb 2024. Microsoft reported 30,000 Copilot licenses in Oct 2025, out of 101,513 TotalEnergies employees at the end of 2025, with 70% weekly use; TotalEnergies' 2025 annual report says only that Copilot licenses are being provided gradually with training. From 2025 TotalEnergies shifted to a few top-down programs built on new data platforms, and has published no count of AI users or of AI use cases in production beyond the Digital Factory's solutions.
By the numbers
Rollout, first pilot to today
Sep 2019
Frédéric Gimenez became Chief Digital Officer of Total and Managing Director of the Digital Factory.
Mar 2021
Total chose Microsoft Azure for digital transformation projects and for its Digital Factory, which opened in 2020.
Jul 2021
TotalEnergies named AWS a cloud provider, with the Digital Factory using AWS infrastructure services.
Aug 2023
TotalEnergies made Bing Chat Enterprise available to employees, then began a Microsoft 365 Copilot test with 300 employees in Sep 2023.
Feb 2024
TotalEnergies decided to deploy Microsoft 365 Copilot and Power Platform licenses to employees, with training on the tools for every employee in 2024.
Jun 2025
TotalEnergies and Mistral set up a joint AI innovation lab; the Digital Factory then had 300 experts and more than 100 solutions, 60 of them using machine learning or generative AI.
Jul 2025
TotalEnergies began a 2-year rollout of AspenTech Inmation to collect real-time data from its industrial sites for AI use cases.
Sep 2025
TotalEnergies extended Cognite's industrial data and AI platform to all operated upstream assets over 3 years and created a Digital Line inside OneTech.
Oct 2025
Microsoft reported 30,000 Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses at TotalEnergies and agents such as MARGE and BuyerCompanion built on Copilot Studio.
Feb 2026
TotalEnergies told investors it would multiply data points on its assets by 10 and build an India competence center of at least 500 engineers by 2027 for its AI programs.
Mar 2026
TotalEnergies' 2025 annual report put the Digital Factory at about 500 digital and AI experts in France and India and counted more than 10,000 live AI models.
Sep 2026
TotalEnergies and Mistral launched a 3-year program of more than €100 million for frontier geoscience models.
Economics & controls
Spend and ROI
Technology budget
TotalEnergies invested more than $1 billion in R&D, industrial innovation and digital developments in 2025, with digital about 30% of the overall effort, and spent $810 million of that on R&D with more than 3,500 researchers (2025 annual report). TotalEnergies does not publish a separate IT or AI budget.
What AI itself costs
TotalEnergies has disclosed 2 AI-related investments: more than €100 million over 3 years for the Mistral geoscience program (Sep 2026) and more than €100 million for the Pangea 5 supercomputer, which also serves seismic imaging (May 2026). TotalEnergies has not disclosed what it pays for Microsoft 365 Copilot, Cognite or AspenTech, or its running cost for AI.
Reported ROI
TotalEnergies has reported no business return it credits to AI. On the Feb 11, 2026 results call Patrick Pouyanné said AI's gain would mainly be 1% to 2% more availability from better maintenance, and Namita Shah, citing process control tests on production assets, said even a 1% to 2% production increase would be enormous, a point she made about digital in general. TotalEnergies' $7.5 billion cash savings program for 2026 to 2030, announced in Sep 2025, is not credited to AI.
Productivity markers
Microsoft reported in Oct 2025 that TotalEnergies' MARGE agent improved the identification of maintenance fault causes by 25% to 45% and that the BuyerCompanion agent should save 10% on certain purchases; neither is a realized cost figure published by TotalEnergies. TotalEnergies executives said in Feb 2026 that AI halves the time needed to forecast weather for power trading, a speed measure with no cost or revenue attached.
Headcount
TotalEnergies had 101,513 employees at Dec 31, 2025, against 102,887 a year earlier, and has made no statement linking headcount to AI. Olivier Lacroze told Microsoft in Oct 2025 that TotalEnergies' approach is about augmenting people, not replacing them, and Patrick Pouyanné said in Feb 2026 that the India competence center offers competitive costs but is mainly about talent.
Governance and risk
Board oversight
TotalEnergies' Strategy & CSR Committee, chaired by Patrick Pouyanné, reviewed the company's digital ambition and AI on Mar 19, 2025, and the Board's 2025 self-assessment set a 2026 action to review the impact of technological disruptions, including AI, on TotalEnergies' businesses and the associated risks (2025 annual report).
People keep the final decision
TotalEnergies says it does not use fully autonomous decision-making systems on its sensitive sites: final decisions rest with expert teams, AI recommendations serve as decision aids, and systems must meet performance requirements and keep decisions traceable (Spring 2025 shareholders' newsletter).
Agent approval
TotalEnergies set up an internal validation committee that assesses each Copilot Studio agent's business value, technical and architectural viability and cybersecurity, and blocks redundant agents, according to Olivier Lacroze in Microsoft's Oct 2025 customer story.
Data sovereignty
TotalEnergies said the Sep 2026 Mistral program creates proprietary models within a European digital ecosystem, and Mistral said its models protect the intellectual property of companies that adopt them. In Jun 2025 TotalEnergies and Mistral agreed to examine AI infrastructure for TotalEnergies in view of European digital sovereignty.
Disclosed risks
TotalEnergies' 2025 annual report lists AI among the technologies that widen its cyberattack surface, including deepfakes and automated phishing, and names a risk that the company fails to adapt its organization and skills to AI at the right pace.
Recent signals
Oct 29, 2026
TotalEnergies' third-quarter 2026 results listed the 3-year Mistral partnership for frontier exploration and reservoir engineering models among the quarter's upstream highlights.
Oct 20, 2026
Chief Digital Officer Frédéric Gimenez was listed to speak at the Teratec 2026 Forum on AI acculturation, training and transformation, with a biography confirming his Aug 2025 move to head the Digital Line in OneTech.
Sep 15, 2026
TotalEnergies and Mistral announced a 3-year program of more than €100 million to build frontier AI models for exploration, reservoir characterization and field development, with a joint scientific laboratory.
Jun 18, 2026
TotalEnergies presented MethaneLive at VivaTech, a methane monitoring center fed by about 13,000 sensors that had found 35 fugitive emissions since early 2026, and said it uses AI to monitor nearly 3,000 pieces of equipment.
May 6, 2026
TotalEnergies ordered Pangea 5 from Dell Technologies and NVIDIA, a supercomputer of more than €100 million that multiplies its computing power by 6 for seismic imaging and R&D uses of AI from 2027.
May 4, 2026
Namita Shah became President Asia, based in Bangalore, while keeping the OneTech presidency that oversees TotalEnergies' digital and AI work.
Mar 27, 2026
TotalEnergies' 2025 annual report said the Digital Factory had about 500 digital and AI experts in France and India and that its solutions run on more than 10,000 live AI models.
Feb 11, 2026
On the 2025 results call TotalEnergies presented its internal AI plan: 10 times more asset data points, 3 top-down programs and an India competence center of at least 500 engineers by 2027; Patrick Pouyanné said he was skeptical about AI in the subsurface.
Nov 11, 2025
Honeywell announced a pilot of its AI-assisted Experion Operations Assistant at TotalEnergies' Port Arthur refinery, which forecast 5 potential events in a first test on the delayed coking unit.
Nov 7, 2025
Microsoft said TotalEnergies had rolled out 30,000 Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses and was building agents on Copilot Studio for maintenance and procurement.
Quick answers
- How does TotalEnergies deploy AI?
- TotalEnergies deploys AI through its Digital Factory, about 500 digital and AI specialists in France and India who build the company's own applications, and through bought tools: Microsoft 365 Copilot for staff and Cognite and AspenTech data platforms on its industrial sites. In Sep 2026 TotalEnergies committed more than €100 million over 3 years to a joint lab with Mistral that builds frontier AI models for exploration and reservoir engineering. TotalEnergies has reported no cost, revenue or production return it credits to AI.
- What does TotalEnergies use AI for?
- TotalEnergies says nearly 100 digital solutions have been built since 2020, 60% of them with AI, running more than 10,000 live AI models, and its named AI use cases span maintenance, methane detection, subsurface interpretation, power trading, procurement, customer energy advice and office work. TotalEnergies has published no business return it credits to AI for any of them, and no firm-level AI figure; executives described AI's goal on the Feb 2026 results call as 1% to 2% more availability or production, a target, and Microsoft's figures for the MARGE and BuyerCompanion agents are a quality measure and an expected saving.
- Who leads AI at TotalEnergies?
- AI at TotalEnergies is led by Namita Shah (President, OneTech and President, Asia); Frédéric Gimenez (Chief Digital Officer, SVP Digital Line (OneTech) and Managing Director, Digital Factory); Olivier Lacroze (Director, TotalEnergies Global Information Technology Services). Ownership of AI on the org chart: Namita Shah, President OneTech, on the Executive Committee; CDO Frédéric Gimenez runs the Digital Line.
- What AI platform does TotalEnergies use?
- TotalEnergies builds its own AI applications in the Digital Factory, about 500 digital and AI experts in France and India who have built nearly 100 solutions since 2020, on industrial data platforms bought from Cognite and AspenTech (2025 annual report, Mar 2026).
- Which AI models does TotalEnergies use?
- TotalEnergies runs more than 10,000 live AI models of its own, gives staff Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio agents, and is building frontier subsurface models with Mistral under a program of more than €100 million announced in Sep 2026.
- How many TotalEnergies employees use AI?
- Microsoft reported in Oct 2025 that TotalEnergies had rolled out 30,000 Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses, out of 101,513 employees at the end of 2025; TotalEnergies' own annual report describes only a gradual provision of licenses, with no count.
- What return has TotalEnergies reported from AI?
- TotalEnergies has reported no business return it credits to AI since May 2025, for any use case or for the company. On the Feb 11, 2026 results call Patrick Pouyanné described AI's prize as 1% to 2% more plant availability from better maintenance, an aim with no result attached, and Namita Shah, citing process control tests on production assets, said even a 1% to 2% production gain would be enormous, a hope credited to digital in general; the $7.5 billion savings program for 2026 to 2030 is not credited to AI. TotalEnergies has also reported no company-wide AI rollout with a user count: the figure of 30,000 Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses comes from a Microsoft customer story (Oct 2025), while TotalEnergies' 2025 annual report speaks only of a gradual provision of Copilot licenses. TotalEnergies sits at Experimenting on its in-window AI work, led by the Mistral subsurface program (Sep 2026), MethaneLive (Jun 2026), Pangea 5 (May 2026) and the Cognite and AspenTech data platforms (2025); one cost, revenue or production figure TotalEnergies credits to AI, or a Copilot user count published by TotalEnergies with a named owner, would move TotalEnergies to Piloting.
Open questions
- What cost, production or availability gain does TotalEnergies credit to AI, given that executives set an aim of 1% to 2% more availability in Feb 2026 but have published no realized figure?
- How many TotalEnergies employees use Microsoft 365 Copilot or other AI tools each week, as counted by TotalEnergies rather than Microsoft?
- What do the MARGE and BuyerCompanion agents, MethaneLive and AI-driven equipment monitoring return in cost or production, and how many of the Digital Factory's nearly 100 solutions are in production?
- Where will the Mistral frontier models be trained and hosted, on Mistral's infrastructure, a European cloud or TotalEnergies' Pangea supercomputers, and when will the joint laboratory deliver its first tools?
- Which clouds run TotalEnergies' AI models today, given that its AWS and Azure partnerships date from 2021?
- How do the India competence center's target of at least 500 engineers by 2027 and OneTech India's target of 500 employees by 2028 relate, and how many are AI specialists?
- Is the Jun 2025 assistant for TotalEnergies' 1,000 researchers in use, and on which models?
- How much does TotalEnergies spend on AI each year beyond the Mistral program and Pangea 5?
Sources
TotalEnergies
- Executive Committee members (checked Nov 2026)
- Executive Committee from Sep 1, 2026, press release via Business Wire
- Shareholders' Newsletter #79: AI as a performance driver (Summer 2026)
- Shareholders' Newsletter #76: AI at the heart of our businesses (Spring 2025)
- TotalEnergies and Mistral frontier AI models for reservoirs, press release via Business Wire (Sep 15, 2026)
- TotalEnergies develops Pangea 5 supercomputer, Form 6-K exhibit (May 6, 2026)
- TotalEnergies to collaborate with Mistral AI, Form 6-K exhibit (Jun 12, 2025)
- TotalEnergies gives employees generative AI with Copilot for Microsoft 365, press release (Feb 27, 2024)
- OneTech India
Filings, results and investor materials
Partners
- Microsoft customer story: TotalEnergies from Microsoft 365 Copilot to Copilot Studio (Oct 22, 2025)
- Microsoft Source LATAM: TotalEnergies accelerates digital transformation with AI and agents (Nov 7, 2025)
- Honeywell: pilot of AI-assisted control room at Port Arthur (Nov 11, 2025)
- TotalEnergies and Cognite expand partnership, Business Wire via Placera (Sep 26, 2025)
- Teratec 2026 Forum roundtable with Frédéric Gimenez (Oct 20, 2026)
News
- World Oil: TotalEnergies, Mistral launch AI program for oil and gas exploration (Sep 15, 2026)
- AFP via Connaissance des Énergies: TotalEnergies entrusts Mistral with reservoir AI (Sep 15, 2026)
- World Oil: TotalEnergies deploys 13,000 sensors to monitor methane emissions (Jun 18, 2026)
- World Oil: TotalEnergies, Emerson collaborate on industrial data (Jul 22, 2025)
- Le Monde Informatique: TotalEnergies sets up an AI lab with Mistral (Jun 16, 2025)
- Offshore: TotalEnergies forms cooperation with Amazon (Jul 29, 2021)
- World Oil: Total and Microsoft partner on digital innovation (Mar 11, 2021)
Data confidence
- Confirmed
- Stated in a primary or reputable public source.
- Estimated
- Derived or approximated from public reporting.
- Unconfirmed
- Reported, but not yet corroborated.
TotalEnergies profile · Enterprise AI diffusion report by Imagine · facts checked against their sources on Nov 5, 2026
