Huawei showcased its full-scenario intelligent oil & gas solutions in the AI Zone at the 42nd Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC 2026), held from November 2 to 5 at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC) in the UAE. The company shared its vision and real-world cases for redefining oil & gas productivity through a framework that combines a data foundation, large models, and AI agents. As one of the world’s most important annual gatherings for the energy industry, this year’s event focused on energy security and supply resilience, accelerated adoption of AI, and infrastructure upgrades.

Jiang Wangcheng, CEO of Huawei’s Oil, Gas and Mining Business Unit (BU), addressed global energy customers and partners, outlining Huawei’s vision and strategy for the intelligent transformation of the oil & gas industry. He noted that, driven by the rapid adoption of AI, the global oil & gas industry is entering a critical phase of intelligent transformation. By integrating data, connectivity, and AI, Huawei is building robust ICT infrastructure and applying AI to core business scenarios such as exploration and production. In practice, AI-powered large-model full-waveform inversion has boosted seismic data processing efficiency by 10 times, AI-driven code refactoring has cut module migration time from three weeks to one day, and computer vision (CV) models have raised the accuracy of high-risk scenario alarms to over 90%.

Deng Bi, President of Huawei’s Oil & Gas BU, shared how AI can drive intelligent transformation across the full oil & gas value chain—from exploration and development to production and safe operations. He highlighted Huawei’s achievements in AI-driven exploration, intelligent oilfield development, and safety production management, and explained how the “Huawei + Partners” ecosystem translates technical capabilities into business value for industry customers.

Deng Bi, President of Huawei Oil & Gas BU, delivering a keynote speech

Pu Qiang, Director of Huawei’s Pipeline Network and City Gas BU Solution Sales Dept, gave an on-site interview on how AI empowers intelligent pipeline operations. He noted that Huawei uses a cloud-pipe-edge-device architecture, distributed fiber optic sensing, and AI technologies to enable round-the-clock risk perception for pipelines. These solutions have been deployed across more than 30,000 kilometers of oil & gas pipelines, upgrading pipeline safety operations toward intelligent perception and autonomous decision-making.

Pu Qiang, Director of Huawei’s Pipeline Network and City Gas BU Solution Sales Dept, being interviewed

Li Rui, Solution Director of Huawei’s Chemical & Building Materials BU, shared Huawei’s intelligent chemical solutions and practices in the Chinese market and discussed their application prospects in the Middle East and beyond. He introduced the time-series large model and the autonomous operation solution jointly developed by Huawei and a partner for process industries, along with real-world cases of advancing autonomous operations with minimal or even zero on-site staff for petrochemical and chemical units.

Li Rui, Solution Director of Huawei’s Chemical & Building Materials BU, sharing partner practices

During the panel discussion, Ghassan El Rayah, Solution Director at Huawei Middle East, discussed pathways to autonomous oilfields—from data insights to AI-driven autonomous decision-making and action. He shared AI applications in reservoir management, drilling optimization, production scheduling, and equipment O&M.

Ghassan El Rayah, Solution Director at Huawei Middle East, participating in a roundtable discussion

Faisal Malik, Solution Director at Huawei Middle East & Central Asia, delivered a keynote on the coming convergence of AI agents and computing infrastructure. He explained how Huawei is building a computing foundation for the oil & gas industry, highlighting high-performance computing (HPC), distributed storage, and data center networking solutions tailored for the energy industry to support large-model training and inference, real-time industrial control, and massive data processing.

Faisal Malik, Solution Director at Huawei Middle East & Central Asia, delivering a keynote speech

Huawei Booth: Showcasing All-Scenario Intelligent Oil & Gas Solutions

The AI Zone at ADIPEC is focused on the convergence and innovation of AI and the energy industry. At this year’s event, Huawei showcased a suite of intelligent solutions spanning exploration, development, production, pipeline storage and transportation, and refining, alongside ICT infrastructure innovations including TaiShan HPC, Atlas AI computing, high-performance storage, and full-scenario networks. The exhibit highlighted Huawei’s “connectivity + cloud + computing + AI” technology foundation and intelligent applications co-created with ecosystem partners to empower the digital and intelligent transformation of oil & gas enterprises worldwide.

Huawei booth in the AI Zone

During ADIPEC 2026, Huawei delivered a clear message about the industry’s intelligent transformation trends and its own positioning through multiple activities:

• AI is moving from proof of concept to production practice: AI is evolving from an auxiliary tool into a new type of “worker” capable of entering production systems and executing closed-loop tasks, driving the industry from experience-driven to data-driven and autonomous operations, and becoming a new form of productivity.
• Collaborating with partners to help customers shift from building systems to driving productivity: Huawei works with partners to drive the transformation from single-point information applications to a systematic overhaul of all-domain digitalization, using intelligence to boost productivity across the entire industrial chain.
• Supporting industry-wide intelligent transformation with a digital and intelligent foundation: From exploration, development, production, pipeline storage and transportation, to refining and sales, Huawei delivers “connectivity + cloud + computing + AI” technology to support the intelligent transformation of the entire industrial chain.

Huawei believes that the oil & gas industry is gradually moving from the informatization and digitalization phase of “seeing and connecting” to an intelligence phase that places greater emphasis on business applications and value creation. Looking ahead, Huawei will continue to work with global customers and partners to drive the intelligent transformation of the oil & gas industry, helping it achieve safe, efficient, green, and smart development.

About The Event

Expand North Star – the world’s largest startup & investor connector event – returns alongside GITEX Global at Dubai Exhibition Centre (DEC), Expo City Dubai. 

One week. One venue. One mega ecosystem of ideas, innovation and investment opportunities.

Starting with the Summit on 7 December at Dubai World Trade Centre, North Star gathers the global startup ecosystem in one place. From 8-10 December at DEC, founders, investors, enterprises and policymakers come together to spark partnerships, investment and growth.

🔥WHAT’S NEW IN 2026:

📈 Scale.iT – Inspired by Proud of UAE campaign, Scale-It is a new flagship destination at Expand North Star connecting government, corporates, investors, ecosystem leaders and startups to showcase the programmes, opportunities and companies driving the UAE innovation economy.

🎓ENS Founders Academy – A 3-day founder development experience connecting founders with investors, operators and unicorn builders through three specialized labs covering the complete startup journey, from idea to exit. 

⭐ENS26 Backers Pitch – Investors take center stage pitching startups they already back to other investors, creating new opportunities for collaboration and co-investment. 

🎟️The Founder’s Pass – A limited-edition opportunity designed for founders who want maximum visibility with minimum investment: one day pod, with full benefits across all 3 days of the event (eligibility for Supernova, investor meetings, access to conferences).

🚀 Supernova 0X – Expand North Star flagship competition evolves to a stage-based competition format. Founders pitch in relevant competitive groups competing for a growth package prize.  

🧬GITEX Healthtech – This new feature brings together founders building, AR/VR hardware, smart health devices and lifestyle tech designed to scale.

🌍APOLLO100 – a new platform where we flip the order and give international hubs the opportunity to pitch their services to expansion-ready startups, creating a global network for market entry, and direct connections.

The future of entrepreneurship is being built now. Secure your place at Expand North Star 2026 and join the founders, investors, and technology leaders shaping what comes next.

Expand North Star | 8-10 December 2026 | Dubai Exhibition Centre (DEC), Expo City Dubai

For more information, visit expandnorthstar.com.   

KnowBe4, the global leader in digital workforce security, securing both humans and AI agents, today announced its commitment to expanding in-region data residency across six key international markets: Australia, Brazil, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and the United Emirates (UAE).

The expansion addresses escalating regulatory complexity worldwide. By offering local data residency, KnowBe4 enables organizations across industries to secure their whole workforce, people and AI agents, while aligning with local data privacy frameworks.

These new regions are in addition to KnowBe4’s existing data residency capabilities across Canada, the European Union (Germany and Ireland), the United Kingdom and the United States.

“As the global regulatory environment evolves and cyber threats grow more sophisticated, international organizations require clarity and confidence regarding where their sensitive data is stored,” said Bryan Palma, CEO at KnowBe4. “Expanding our in-region data residency across these six markets gives our customers greater control over their data at rest, so they can secure their workforces with confidence.”

Launch in each new region is contingent on the underlying cloud infrastructure becoming generally available. Customer data at rest in these regions will be available across the KnowBe4 Platform.