Agentic AI Is Moving From the Back Office to the Oilfield

ASHBURN, VA / ACCESS Newswire / September 9, 2026 / Baker Hughes announced a deal in late January that didn't get much attention outside trade press, but it captured something bigger happening across the oil patch. Expand Energy, the largest natural gas producer in North America, agreed to roll out an automated production system called Leucipa across thousands of wells in the Marcellus, Utica and Haynesville shale plays.