As industry AI adoption stalls at the pilot stage and a widening reskilling gap threatens returns, EON’s Genesis platform turns engineering data into verifiable workforce competency across 80+ countries.
IRVINE, CA — August 21, 2026 — EON AI Ventures is addressing a stubborn challenge in the oil and gas industry: turning rapid advances in artificial intelligence into measurable returns. A 2026 McKinsey survey of oilfield-services and equipment executives found that fewer than a quarter of companies had progressed beyond AI pilots, even though more than three-quarters expected generative AI to deliver operational efficiencies—a pattern consistent with McKinsey’s broader finding that roughly two-thirds of organizations have yet to scale AI across the enterprise. The technology can now analyze data at a speed unimaginable a few years ago; what it cannot yet do is guarantee the workforce is ready to act on it.
That distinction—highlighted in a recent Quartz analysis by Sheridan Hanson on whether AI can extend human engineering capacity in oil and gas—is exactly where EON has built its business.
The speed gains are real. In 2025, BP reported that AI had compressed seismic-data processing in the Gulf of Mexico from six-to-twelve months down to eight-to-twelve weeks. But faster geological insight still depends on engineers and operators who can execute complex, high-risk procedures correctly, safely, and on the first attempt. And here the industry has a problem it openly acknowledges: EY’s 2025 Future of Energy Survey found that 85% of oil and gas and chemicals executives believe their ability to reskill their workforce will determine their success over the next five years—yet only 29% are actually retraining their people today. The industry challenge, supporting research, and EON’s approach are detailed in the accompanying white paper, “From Data to Decisions: Why the Real Frontier in Oil & Gas AI Is Human Competency.”
“The industry has spent its AI budget teaching machines to read data faster. The unsolved half of the problem is teaching people to act on it,” said Dan Lejerskar, Founder and Chairman of EON AI Ventures. “Processing speed without workforce capability is a report nobody can execute. Our platform closes that loop—it takes an operator from knowing to proven-able-to-do, with verifiable evidence before they ever touch the live asset.”
EON’s Genesis platform ingests the industry’s own engineering data—standard operating procedures, CAD files, and P&IDs—and converts it into photoreal simulations in which industrial workers train, practice, and are assessed on competency. Rather than producing yet another dashboard, the platform produces something operations leaders can act on directly: auditable proof that a named individual can perform a specific task before doing it live. For high-consequence, HSE-critical work, that verifiable assessment layer is the difference between a training record and a guarantee of readiness.
The approach directly targets the gap the industry data describes. Where fewer than 25% of firms have moved AI past the pilot stage, EON is deployed at operational scale across more than 80 countries. Where only 29% of oil and gas companies are actively reskilling, EON turns existing engineering knowledge into scalable competency-building without waiting for scarce expert trainers. And where AI has expanded how much information the industry can generate, EON expands how much of it the workforce can meaningfully act upon.
“Every operator we work with is sitting on decades of procedural knowledge locked inside documents,” said Mats W. Johansson, President of EON zsi Ventures. “We make that knowledge executable. A P&ID becomes a place where your team can practice a shutdown sequence a hundred times and prove they’ve mastered it—before the day it counts.”
EON positions itself not as a VR or AR company, but as an AI-first workforce-capability platform: the layer that converts the industry’s accelerating data advantage into verified human performance.
Read more in the “From Data to Decisions: Why the Real Frontier in Oil & Gas AI Is Human Competency.” white paper.
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About EON AI Ventures
EON AI Ventures is the company behind Work Intelligence — the captured, verified, and compounding knowledge of how expert work is actually done. Its Intelligence Flywheel platform (Genesis, Field IQ, Assess IQ) enables industrial enterprises to encode expert procedures into AI-guided simulations, deliver them to any worker on any device, and verify competency in the field. EON AI Ventures builds on a 25-year foundation of immersive learning technology deployed across more than 80 countries. For more information, visit www.eonaiventures.com