Total and Google Cloud have signed an agreement to jointly develop artificial intelligence (AI) solutions applied to subsurface data analysis for oil and gas exploration and production. The agreement focuses on the development of AI programs that will make it possible to interpret subsurface images, notably from seismic studies (using Computer Vision technology) and automate the analysis of technical documents (using Natural Language Processing technology). These programs will allow Total's geologists, geophysicists, reservoir and geo-information engineers to explore and assess oil and gas fields faster and more effectively. Under this partnership, Total geoscientists will work side-by-side with Google Cloud's machine learning experts within the same project team based in Google Cloud's Advanced Solutions Lab in California. Total started applying artificial intelligence to characterize oil and gas fields using machine learning algorithms in the 1990s.