Global energy technology company SLB (NYSE: SLB) has launched the SLB Digital Marketplace, a curated digital destination designed to help energy companies rapidly discover, deploy, and scale specialized AI agents, domain models, skills, tools, data connectors, and digital applications. By integrating these capabilities directly into existing digital environments, the initiative aims to provide a governed channel that allows energy professionals to move more efficiently from insight to action. According to SLB CEO Olivier Le Peuch, the marketplace is intended to accelerate the shift from the "promise" of AI to actual "performance" by creating an open ecosystem where innovation can scale and solutions can interoperate across the energy system.
SLB Digital Marketplace and the Tela Agentic AI Strategy
The SLB Digital Marketplace extends the company's open platform strategy to its Tela agentic AI assistant. This ecosystem allows SLB, independent software vendors (ISVs), partners, developers, and customers to provide purpose-built digital capabilities through a single, governed channel. To ensure enterprise-grade reliability and quality standards required for enterprise operations, all marketplace offerings are certified against SLB standards for security, interoperability, and compatibility before they are listed.
The launch is a strategic response to the industry's transition toward agentic AI, which is defined as software capable of reasoning, acting, and automating across complex technical workflows. As these agentic capabilities proliferate, SLB notes that energy companies will require access to a broader ecosystem of specialized tools that can work together seamlessly across planning, operations, data, and AI. Rakesh Jaggi, president of SLB’s digital business, emphasized that because no single company can build every agent, model, or application the industry needs, the marketplace provides energy professionals with more choice while maintaining strict governance.
Integration of Delfi, Lumi, and Ocean Ecosystems
The marketplace currently features approximately 200 digital products. This inventory includes existing Ocean store solutions as well as new offerings from SLB and more than 30 partners. The available products encompass a diverse range of technical tools and integrations, including:
- Delfi and Lumi SaaS applications
- Plug-ins and workflow extensions
- Data connectors
- Tela AI skills, agents, and foundation models
For energy professionals, the platform serves as a centralized destination to evaluate and access trusted digital capabilities that extend workflows within the Lumi and Delfi environments. For ISVs and developers, the marketplace provides a structured path to publish and scale their solutions across the SLB ecosystem. Interested developers and ISVs can apply to list their applications via the SLB partner program and access additional resources through the company's developer portal.
Key Takeaways
- The SLB Digital Marketplace offers approximately 200 digital products, including solutions from SLB and over 30 partners.
- All marketplace offerings must be certified for security, interoperability, and compatibility before listing.
- The platform integrates with Delfi and Lumi SaaS applications and extends the capabilities of the Tela agentic AI assistant.
EnergyInsyte's Take
SLB is attempting to move from proprietary software delivery to an open ecosystem model to scale agentic AI across the energy sector. Executives should monitor whether the certification standards effectively manage the interoperability of third-party tools within the Delfi and Lumi environments. The primary uncertainty remains how quickly ISVs will adopt this governed channel to deploy specialized domain models at scale.
Source: Businesswire
