From 30 days to 1: Chevron’s cloud migration ROI in real numbers

The No. 1 way AI is changing 150-year-old energy giant Chevron? How technical practitioners engage with data. 

Offshore in the Gulf, Chevron is drilling for oil resources miles below the ocean floor in pockets and reservoirs that may or may not yield results. Agentic architectures need to be able to process petabytes of critical data — which not only provides insights on where to drill, but how to do so without negatively impacting human lives or the environment — in the cloud and at the edge. 

“Data is the ultimate accelerant for all of our AI use cases,” Steve Bowman, GM for enterprise AI at Chevron, said onstage at this year’s VB Transform. “It’s something that we’ve embraced in a big way.”

How AI is changing the way Chevron interacts with its untold amounts of data

In 2019, Chevron teamed up with Microsoft and oilfield ...