Oil and gas

An event with no precedent
can still be detected and explained.

High-consequence integrity events seldom repeat in identical patterns. When AI relies only on cataloged past failures, it remains blind to novel risks. Parabole takes a causal approach: by modeling the fundamental principles that govern system equilibrium, the platform detects when those core dynamics begin to break down.

Throughput, emissions, energy demand, and equipment integrity constantly pull in opposing directions. The agent identifies the likely binding constraint under current operating conditions and estimates the operational and economic effects of changing operating limits.

30–40%
Lower subsurface prediction error against a kriging baseline.
25%
Faster pipeline leak detection through causal consistency monitoring.
2–5%
Fired heater energy-efficiency gain, with roughly 10% lower emissions.
30%
Decrease in unplanned shutdowns through alarm rationalization.
Methodology

Learn normal. Everything else is a signal.

Major process-safety incidents are high-consequence, low-frequency events that rarely present in the same pattern twice. Predictive models reliant on historical incident logs remain blind to novel, uncataloged operating conditions.

01 / Model

Business as usual on the unit

TRAIN evaluates process flow, subsystem interactions, hydraulics, and thermodynamics against current operating conditions.

02 / Detect

The residual

It detects the gap between expected and observed behavior, including failure modes not previously recorded in the available fleet history.

03 / Explain

Cause and consequence

TRAIN states the likely cause, estimates the production and integrity consequences of inaction, and ranks feasible interventions.

Definition

What normal actually means.

Not
A historical average or a golden batch.
Not
A setpoint, a spec limit, or a threshold on a tag.
Not
A catalog of past failure events.
Normal is
What the operating data says the process does, and what your engineers say it should do, held together against live conditions.
So

A different operating point is not necessarily a deviation because its constraints move with it. Flag conditions when observed relationships depart materially from the validated operating envelope.

Portfolio

Thirteen use cases across the value chain.

Each begins with one decision owned by one team. None requires a catalog of past incidents to start.

Get started

Bring us one decision that is hard to get right.

Bring the engineer who knows the process. We will walk through the causal model behind it.

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