{"id":368986,"date":"2020-08-21T08:57:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T03:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=368986"},"modified":"2020-08-21T09:44:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T04:14:13","slug":"big-oil-meets-big-tech-microsoft-deepens-ties-with-brazils-petrobras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/big-oil-meets-big-tech-microsoft-deepens-ties-with-brazils-petrobras\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Oil meets Big Tech: Microsoft deepens ties with Brazil&#8217;s Petrobras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big Oil is tapping Big Tech to keep drilling off the shores of Brazil even as the global pandemic traps workers at home. <\/p>\n<p>Confronted with the need to keep employees working remotely, Petroleo Brasileiro fast-tracked a move to a Microsoft cloud platform it had already been testing before lockdowns, Fernando Lemos, Microsoft\u2019s chief technology officer in Brazil, said in an interview. That\u2019s allowing staff to access from home data that was previously only available in the oil giant\u2019s offices in Rio, and to monitor the use of safety equipment at deep-water vessels. <\/p>\n<p>With the help of Microsoft\u2019s artificial intelligence technology to process its myriad of geological data, Petrobras also aims to eliminate dry holes during exploration and reach commercial production at offshore wells faster while reducing costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Oil is tapping Big Tech to keep drilling off the shores of Brazil even as the global pandemic traps workers at home. Confronted with the need to keep employees working remotely, Petroleo Brasileiro fast-tracked a move to a Microsoft cloud platform it had already been testing before lockdowns, Fernando Lemos, Microsoft\u2019s chief technology officer in Brazil, said in an interview. That\u2019s allowing staff to access from home data that was previously only available in the oil giant\u2019s offices in Rio, and to monitor the use of safety equipment at deep-water vessels. With the help of Microsoft\u2019s artificial intelligence technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}