Shell, like many oil companies, moved a lot of their IT and data infrastructure to public cloud. Many AI were projects were also santioned.
Have those intiatives paid off or been a negative ROI? Was on-prem better than the cloud?
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New growth opportunities or M&A plays?
Reserve additions?
Shareholder Value?
Game changing Downstream ideas?
Hope it's more than just cost/people cutting. Everyone can do that.
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What?
There's scientist and engineers at Shell Technology Center that are likely putting AI/ML and the cloud to good use. Then there's the functional group of IT at Shell in Houston which is a bureaucracy and likely on it's last legs.
you know the problems, but not who to blame. literally all of the problems you just shared are caused be legal. legal says “there is risk in this” and then our executives pi-s their pants and run out of the building screaming. legal runs the company.
“ai can give your data to others”
“leaving data around causes a bigger footprint of exposure”
“operating there causes legal exposure”
“ai generated code may be a form of copyright infringement”
shhh quiet, you’re gonna scare the 🐳 🦢 again! last time we had to sell two more assets before his thumb came out of his mouth.
It’s probably why she’ll keep on failing in oil exploration because of the AI team and moving to the cloud
and don't get me started on Shell's AI implementation. Shell-e looks ancient and it su-ks, we are waiting for Microsoft Copilot (or whatever Microsoft is calling it this month) for over a year now. Most of the AI initiatives are focussing on creating a better search engine rather than utilising the full potential of AI. It is rather tragic that Shell hasn't fixed "finding the relevant information problem" for 20 years. Instead, we destroyed a lot of valuable documents (looking at you NRD...) or made them impossible to find unless you know someone who knows someone who may still have it stored somewhere.
Not only O&G companies but almost all (western) organizations moved their workloads to the cloud convinced by the attractive low hosting prices MS and Amazon were offering. Once the majority of workloads were migrated to the cloud by investing in expensive migration projects, MS and Amazon started increasing the prices…