Digital Strategy

INPEX seeks to leverage digital technologies to create and bring new value to the energy industry.

The explosive spread of generative AI and its accelerated implementation across society have recently made AI utilization a prerequisite for corporate competitiveness. At the same time, we face structural labor shortages, an aging workforce, ongoing cloud migration, and rising IT costs—factors that are dramatically reshaping our operating environment. To meet these challenges and realize Vision 2035, INPEX’s Digital Strategy advances a wide range of initiatives, including digital-talent development, core-system renewal, stronger IT governance, and enhanced cyber-security.

To drive the Digital Strategy, we have identified four domains where digital solutions can deliver the greatest impact: (1) Technology, (2) Operations, Maintenance & HSE, (3) Business Efficiency, and (4) Knowledge Transfer & Acquisition. By focusing our digitalization efforts on these areas, we aim to solve key issues and accelerate the realization of our Vision.

To tackle the challenges in each domain through the power of digital, we have defined three strategic pillars. Embedding these pillars across the organization will deepen the importance of data utilization and enhance corporate value.

To fulfill Vision 60-60, we aim for our desired future state, “Digital 60-60.”

Across Steps 1–3 we will drive specific initiatives that make the Digital Strategy a reality across the INPEX Group. By visualizing and structuring buried data, we will boost productivity and discover new resources. Through multifaceted training programs and process automation, we will generate creative time and maximize INPEX’s human capital.

Gaining access to, and understanding, scattered internal rules and technical guidelines has long hampered efficiency. We have solved this by developing an application that lets employees search and query the content using generative AI, giving everyone rapid, pinpoint access to required information.

Going forward, we will expand the tool—combining in-house and citizen development—to cover an even broader range of corporate information and technical know-how. This will prevent knowledge silos and let each employee exploit data to accelerate decision-making.

Assuming a breach can occur, our integrated security operations fuse AI with threat intelligence to prioritize early detection, appropriate response and rapid recovery. This approach leverages human judgment alongside machine speed and scalability and is essential for sustaining business continuity and public trust.

Key capabilities include:

By supporting human decision-making at every security-operations stage, AI enables personnel to focus on judgment, delivering high-quality, consistent incident response even with limited resources. The optimal, proactive fusion of human and AI strengths will help us reach our ideal cyber-security future.

Aboard Ichthys LNG’s offshore CPF, we performed 3-D scans using drones and fixed cameras. The resulting 3-D model eliminated the need for scaffold-based inspections, improving both efficiency and safety. Ultimately, we will develop a digital twin that enables advanced data management and simulation, integrating OT (Operational Technology) data to optimize work planning and enhance operational safety through greater situational awareness.

By building a cloud-based data platform, we automated waste-data processing. Tasks that had ballooned to 50 hours per month under GRI 306 reporting now take about one hour. AI automatically extracts and classifies data from electronic manifests and invoices, allowing the HSE division to refocus on policy planning. We will roll out this platform globally and keep automating the collection and reporting of critical data.

To promote the safe and secure use of data and artificial intelligence (AI), we revised our internal regulations and established our policy on responsible AI use, which was endorsed by the Director, Executive Vice President, Technical Headquarters after deliberation by the Information Security Committee.
This policy applies to the use of external AI services that can be trusted, and in principle, we will not use AI in ways that may infringe on the rights or dignity of individuals, including for purposes prohibited under the EU Artificial Intelligence Act.
To ensure transparency of AI systems and explainability of AI generated results/decisions, we keep humans “in the loop” for the management and supervision of AI-generated content, clarifying basic principles, such as confirmation of accuracy and legality of AI-generated content, compliance with the relevant laws, regulations, and terms of use, and swift reporting and response when incidents occur. In addition, we are enhancing cyber resilience through AI and other advanced technologies—such as strengthening next-generation SOC—while aligning with international standards and national regulations to create Group-wide digital platforms that protect the cybersecurity of systems in the use and/or development of AI. 

To embed practical AI skills across the organization, we have launched the “INPEX Digital Academy,” integrating AIR and Udemy Business literacy courses into a single, structured program that covers everything from fundamentals to hands-on practice. This accelerates the competency development of employees who can fully leverage AI and data.

In parallel, we started an open-application “Digital Ambassador” scheme. Ambassadors in each department take the lead in solving on-site business issues with digital tools, spreading grassroots initiatives company-wide. Through this bottom-up approach, we aim to achieve “AI for Everyone” and realize more creative ways of working.

Harnessing digital technologies requires a workforce equipped with digital skills. Alongside company-wide digital-literacy programs, we provide executive briefings on emerging technologies, ensuring that everyone—from management to those on the front lines—can make effective use of AI.

Management, user departments, and the Technology & Engineering Headquarters act as an integrated triad, with the Digital Strategy Promotion Unit spearheading enterprise-level data utilization, talent development, and infrastructure build-out. Under the supervision of the Director, Executive Vice President, Technical Headquarters, who serves as Chief Information Security Officer, we maintain strict governance and risk-management processes, enabling safe and sustainable digital transformation across the entire INPEX Group.