Introducing the AWS Energy Competency Partners

By Sandy Carter, VP of Worldwide Public Sector Partners and Programs – AWS
By Peter Ferri, Partner Segment Lead, Energy – AWS
By Jeff Miers, Director, Partners & Alliances, Energy IBU – AWS
By Laila Chatelain, AWS Competency Program Manager

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects global energy demand to increase by as much as 47% in the next 30 years, driven by population and economic growth, especially in developing countries.

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we are committed to supporting the global energy industry in safely meeting the energy demands of the world today, while accelerating the industry’s transition to a more balanced and sustainable energy future.

AWS is optimistic about the future of the industry, which has a long history of innovating in order to address the ever-growing demand for energy in a responsible way. To meet the rising demand for innovation, the energy industry is accelerating technology adoption such as cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML).

AWS Partners play a vital role in these efforts by supporting customers worldwide and building, implementing, and integrating technology that help to reduce capital and operating costs while driving efficiencies in the operation of oil and gas assets, and furthering the development of a sustainable renewable asset portfolio.

We are excited to announce the AWS Energy Competency Program, which differentiates highly specialized AWS Partners who have demonstrated technical expertise and repeat customer success. These partners enable energy producers worldwide to build and operate assets efficiently and safely, while working to transition to a lower carbon world.

We are also excited to formally introduce 32 launch partners who worked with us this year to develop this incredible new program for energy partners and customers around the world.

AWS Competency Partners Have Proven Customer Success

The AWS Competency Program recognizes AWS Partners that have demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success in specialized solution areas, industry verticals, or workloads. It’s one of the toughest designations an AWS Partner can achieve, and requires partners to undergo a rigorous technical validation related to energy industry-specific best practices.

An example of the work AWS Energy Competency Partners are delivering to customers is Slalom, a global consulting firm focused on strategy, technology, and business transformation in 41 markets around the world.

TC Energy, a major North American energy company and Slalom customer managing 44,000 kilometers of pipelines and transporting 13 billion cubic feet of natural gas a day, partnered with Slalom to develop a business intelligence application that uses machine learning to help customers optimize gas scheduling and throughput. Through this system, TC Energy can now maximize capacity from existing systems to serve customers’ needs immediately.

Another great example is Unleash Live, a leading AI video analytics platform provider. Their customer, Worley, is an industrial engineering solutions company providing operations and maintenance services for assets including wind farms, solar parks, distributed energy systems, hydropower, and renewable natural gas projects. For Worley, conducting inspections at scale as assets age is a challenge. Worley utilizes Unleash Live to leverage drones and computer vision for inspections.

The Unleash Live computer vision models are designed to detect and grade up to nine different types of defects, providing engineers with a cost-effective way of performing many inspections without the need for expensive manual review. Benefits of using this technology include a reduction in cost and resources for inspections, as well as increased safety of people.

AWS Energy Competency Launch Partners

AWS Energy Software and Hardware Competency Partners

These partners provide software and hardware solutions across build and implement technology, as well as data and analytics solutions across the entire energy value chain. This includes upstream, midstream, downstream, new energies, core business applications, health, safety, and environmental, and data and analytics

Ambyint

For oil and gas producers with rod lift wells, Ambyint InfinityRL reduces operating costs by up to 30% and increases production up to 5%, utilizing hybrid physics and AI models to deliver production optimization and artificial lift optimization functionality at scale.

AspenTech

Aspen AIoT Hub provides the integrated data management, edge and cloud infrastructure, and a production-grade AI environment to build, deploy, and host industrial AI applications at enterprise speed and scale.

EnergySys

EnergySys is a low-code platform for agile energy companies. It’s configurable, easy to use, and evolving, making it quick and easy for technical business users to create apps that do exactly what they need.

Flutura Business Solutions

Flutura’s industrial AI product, Cerebra, integrates physics and ML to provide actionable insights that enable energy customers to achieve yield, uptime, and net-zero outcomes.

Fugro

Fugro specializes in geo-data, supporting energy projects globally by supplying the data and solutions that enhance the safety, efficiency, and reliability of design, construction, and maintenance activities. This adds value and assurance to every stage of energy projects.

Interactive Network Technologies (INT)

INT empowers energy customers to accelerate the development of subsurface digital solutions with advanced domain visualization. Their customers experience rich data interaction to search, visualize, and compute their geoscience data in the cloud.

Halliburton

iEnergy is a hybrid cloud solution designed to deploy, integrate, and manage sophisticated E&P cloud applications, such as DecisionSpace 365. iEnergy Hybrid Cloud can seamlessly connect customers’ assets regardless of whether they reside in a public or iEnergy Stack, a private cloud.

NVIDIA

NVIDIA is transforming the energy industry by enabling autonomous operations, fully immersive digital twins, and physics-informed AI, while helping reduce environmental impact and accelerating the energy transition including resilient grid operations.

Quantum Reservoir Impact (QRI)

QRI’s SpeedWise ML is a web-based software platform allowing energy customers worldwide to conduct cutting-edge ML practices and predictive analysis.

Seeq Corporation

Seeq enables energy organizations to cleanse, contextualize, and investigate process data. With Seeq’s advanced analytics, energy companies can significantly improve production outcomes, lower carbon footprints, and empower their human talent.

SOPTIM

For 50 years, SOPTIM has helped energy customers overcome complex energy management processes. SOPTIM eCM provides a fully automated electronic confirmation matching in energy trading, simplifying and securing the confirmation matching process for customers.

TDE Group

TDE offers digital solutions combining unique data, Industrial IoT, AI, and automation to reduce oil and gas well cost, enhance well production, and reduce carbon footprint for energy customers worldwide.

Unleash

Unleash Live takes vision from any camera and combines it with computer vision to deliver actionable data in real-time, giving energy customers immediate insights to drive down costs, improve productivity, increase accuracy, and improve safety.

Validere

Validere’s data analytics platform provides real-time visibility into the composition and quality of oil and gas, enabling customers to identify operational efficiencies, make the highest-margin trading decisions, and drive tangible ESG improvements.

Vyntelligence

Vyntelligence’s smart video AI platform delivers 10x ROI and sustainable innovation by simplifying and digitally assuring quality and safety of complex construction and O&M field activities for leading energy, utility, and manufacturing businesses.

WellAware

WellAware Production Monitoring allows oil and gas production teams to gain a clearer picture of their field operations with ultra-high resolution production equipment data, a lifetime equipment warranty, and data reliability guarantee.

AWS Energy Services Competency Partners

These partners have deep specialization and experience designing and building innovative solutions based on AWS technologies that serve customers in the energy industry across the value chain.

47Lining, a Hitachi Vantara Company

47Lining helps industrial enterprises drive continuous business transformation with cloud-native DataOps web services that enable process optimization at planetary scale.

Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company that provides an end-to-end solution to migrate to and manage operations on AWS. Accenture’s staff of 600,000+ bring a full range of energy services for an industry transformation in an increasingly digital world.

BTC Business Technology Consulting

BTC is a full service provider with more than 20 years of experience within the energy market. BTC supports its customers from consulting, migration, and software development to operations within the AWS Cloud.

Cloudreach

Cloudreach is a cloud-native services company and strategic partner for AWS. They help energy and utilities organizations build AWS-native solutions at scale through accurate migration planning, data-driven modernization decision making, and highly efficient cloud operations.

Contino

Contino supports global energy customers in adopting sustainable practices, driving dual carbon and cost efficiencies, and adopting leaner practices through revitalized operating models.

EPAM Systems

EPAM’s energy practice provides deep industry expertise along with proven engineering firepower to deliver leading-edge technologies and innovative solutions to their customers. It enables the world’s premier oil, gas, and utilities companies to succeed in a volatile and changing market.

Escala 24X7

Escala 24×7 provides solutions and guidance that enables electricity generators, biomass, distribution companies, logistics, and specialized services customers in more than 17 countries to accelerate their cloud journey.

IBM

IBM helps energy customers drive business performance and optimize the value chain, leveraging technology to enable intelligent workflows enveloped by a hybrid cloud framework.

KBR

KBR delivers digital solutions that empower energy customers achieving asset and process efficiency, energy reduction, and margin growth, leading to a clean and sustainable future.

Larsen and Toubro Infotech (LTI)

LTI delivers digital transformation for global energy customers. It powers breakaway organizations with competitive capabilities through proven solutions in data, ERP, and AI/ML to accelerate digital adoption by connecting siloed operations and delivering business value.

Minfy Technologies

MinfyTech leverages the power of cloud technology to automate processes and empower energy customers across the US, ASEAN, and UK to accelerate their digital transformation.

Pariveda Solutions

Pariveda Solutions is a management and technology consulting firm specializing in improving customers’ performance through strategic consulting and the innovative use of technology. Their cloud services include solution architecture, cloud application delivery, big data solutions, mobile/IoT, DevOps automation, data center transformation, and cloud advisory services.

Reply

Reply supports energy customers in improving energy efficiency, flexibility, storage, electric mobility, micro-grids, smart metering, smart grid, and renewable generation optimization.

Slalom

Slalom takes a cloud-first approach to helping global utility and energy companies improve their operations, connect their people across locations, and drive efficiency on a worldwide scale.

SoftServe

SoftServe partners with energy enterprises to deliver effective strategies and cutting-edge AWS integrations. SoftServe’s projects in the energy sector range from AWS Cloud migrations to machine learning modeling and building IoT data lakes.

TensorIoT

TensorIoT provides solutions that organizations need to solve key pain points and meet energy demands safely. Customers can take control of their environment and energy needs with TensorIoT’s next generation solution.

Customers: Team Up with an AWS Energy Competency Partner

With the AWS Energy Competency Program, customers can identify validated AWS Partners that enable energy producers to build and operate assets efficiently and safely while working to reduce carbon footprint.

To learn more, visit the AWS Energy Competency website and see the innovative work our partners are doing.

Partners: How to Join the AWS Competency Program

The AWS Energy Competency Program Validation Checklists for both AWS Services Partners and AWS Software Partners provide the criteria necessary to achieve this AWS Competency designation.