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(Bloomberg) – Big oil companies are asking big technologies to continue drilling off the coast of Brazil even when the global pandemic is trapped at home.
Faced with a desire to keep workers at bay, Petroleo Brasileiro SA has accelerated the transition to a Microsoft Corp cloud platform. who had already tested before the lockouts, Fernando Lemos, head of Microsoft’s generation of leaders in Brazil, said in an interview. This allows staff to access knowledge from their homes that were only held in the oil giant’s offices in Rio in the past, and monitor the use of protective equipment in deep-sea vessels.
With the help of Microsoft’s synthetic intelligence generation to process its myriad geological data, Petrobras also aims to eliminate dry well exploration and achieve faster offshore well advertising while reducing costs.
“We have increased and accelerated the use of synthetic intelligence in drilling boats,” Lemos said. “We have been tested as Petrobras suppliers.”
The virus-induced measure puts Microsoft and Petrobras at the forefront of cloud computing for oil exploration in an industry that fears compromising secret data on third-party platforms. But partnering with one of the few corporations in the world to consistently produce more than 2 million barrels of crude can also put Microsoft in the crosshairs of environmentalists.
Microsoft has one of any generation company’s most competitive greenhouse fuel emission relief plans: a commitment to being carbon negative, through more carbon dioxide from the environment than it emits, until 2030. The software manufacturer has introduced a billion-dollar weather fund to invest. in green corporations and joins Nike Inc., Starbucks Corp., Unilever NV and Danone SA in a consortium committed to sharing resources and tactics to reduce carbon emissions.
At the same time, Microsoft has been criticized by environmentalists for promoting software used to stimulate exploration and extraction to consumers like Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp.
A May 19 Greenpeace report called Microsoft and Amazon.com Inc. for “connections to some of the world’s dirtiest oil corporations with the particular goal of getting more oil and fuel off the floor and bringing it to market faster and cheaper.”
“The importance and complexity of the task at hand is and will require the contribution of each and every user and organization on the planet,” a Microsoft spokesman said in response to questions about the company’s activities with oil companies. “That’s why we are committed to making paints with all our customers, adding those in the energy sector, to help them meet today’s business needs while innovating in combination to meet the commercial desires of a carbon-free future.”
Petrobras and Microsoft also say the carbon footprint through the expansion of efficiency.
Major oil manufacturers have relied for years on knowledge processing technology, with BP Plc and Italy’s Eni SpA operating two of the world’s toughest supercomputers. However, cloud computing still faces fears of security flaws, and industries such as agriculture and retail have faster complexes to adopt.
Its contract in Brazil provides Microsoft with a vital position in an oil market governed by suppliers of drilling and fracking equipment. World oil leaders Schlumberger Ltd., Halliburton Co. and Baker Hughes Co. they are all in the race to turn titans like Exxon and Royal Dutch Shell Plc into their virtual platforms.
Petrobras relies heavily on its own studies after years of tactics to expand ultra-deep deposits trapped in miles under the Atlantic seabed, known as presalt. Companies such as Exxon and Shell tend to rely more on service providers such as Schlumberger and Halliburton.
This gives Petrobras the credit for adopting cloud computing for deepwater exploration, Lemos said. “Few corporations in the world conduct studies in marine waters and deepwater studies,” Lemos said. “We don’t have corporations with the same point of progression as Petrobras to do this. It’s not even fair to compare.”
Necessity was the mother of invention for the state-controlled producer. As its deepest marine fields age, more than a decade ago it has become a matter of survival to release its pre-salt reserves at a time when global oil was focusing on hydraulic fracturing to exploit U.S. shale deposits.
Multimillion-dollar investments in unprofitable refineries and costly fuel subsidies, a previous government left Petrobras with a heavy debt burden that, with a major corruption scandal, made it one of the hardest hit corporations in the past oil market collapse of 2014-2016.
Since then, the corporation has sought to reinvent itself as a lighter and more effective producer. For example, when Covid-19 hit earlier this year and the oil market collapsed again, Petrobras had already sought to use cost generation while increasing production at the same time.
“Before, we used to exercise in the virtual revolution. We are now in a race,” said Melissa Fernández, head of generation at the Brazilian Petroleum Institute, a Rio-based research and policy organization representing local and foreign oil companies. She predicts that experts in synthetic intelligence and robotics will be among the leading candidates in the Brazilian oil industry in the coming years.
In the meantime, other jobs are lost. Petrobras has already cut about 20,500 jobs, or 26% of its workforce, over the more than four years, and aims to cut them by 22% in three years.
Efforts to dominate the generation separated Petrobras from peers in Latin America. Petróleos de Venezuela SA and Petróleos Mexicanos, once the two largest producers in the region, have been grappling with the decline in production and infrastructure that has been in ruins for years, with Pemex recently being the top oil corporate affected by the pandemic of deaths and infections. Colombian company Ecopetrol SA, whose production is declining in the country, evolved into the American shale last year before the collapse of costs called those projects into question.
Petrobras began migrating its workers to Microsoft Office 365 last year. The pandemic then hit and the software facilitated an immediate increase in the use of Microsoft’s Azure cloud service. The use of “virtual terminals” has been increased to around 15,000 per day. Geologists who examine the company’s offshore knowledge now do so from home. A pilot assignment has been extended with Microsoft to monitor offshore security appliances.
“In 3 to 4 months, we achieved a transformation that would usually take 3 to 4 years,” said Nicolas Simone, who took over the company’s new virtual and innovation department in October. “Our purpose is to keep our staff safe, and that means large-scale generation.”
The replacement at Petrobras also won Facebook Inc. ‘ The largest contract in Latin America for its Workplace corporate platform. The oil manufacturer is the assistance service to put into effect a permanent rotation of house paints to reduce workplace expenses even after the Covid-19 locks are finished.
The executive director, Roberto Castello Branco, spoke about the lives of staff in the workplace, while workers use it for debate and videoconferences.
“People publish, whether they like it or not. It’s more expressive,” said Adriano Marcandali, director of Workplace Latin America on Facebook. “You can customize, it’s to perceive which teams of workers other people follow.”
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