Abstract
For many decades, the world has not faced a geopolitical scenario as unstable as the current one. From the Covid-19 pandemic to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the oil and gas sector has been through a real economic epic. This conjuncture presents a perfect backdrop for the introduction of strategic changes in the O&G sector. Now in the third decade of the 21st century, it is increasingly unlikely to dissociate the debate on strategic changes from the imminence of technological innovations; and, even more unlikely, to talk about innovations without making an effort to reflect on their developments and impacts. After all, what better force to combat instability than a stable technological horizon?
This article, in the meantime, aims to discuss some technical and legal aspects of the introduction of AI - Artificial Intelligence - and ML - Machine Learning - technologies in the oil and gas market. Despite the fact that the insertion of these technologies is still a novelty in the market, some of its repercussions are already perceptible, both from a strategic-structural point of view, i.e., relative to the impacts on the daily operations of the companies that make up the sector, and from the point of view of the business structure of these same companies.
Such advances are a wake-up call to monitor the means and conditions under which these technologies will be inserted into the domestic market. To capture these elements in a way that makes it possible to point out trends, it is worth the effort to observe how this insertion has occurred in the international market and, no less important, to analyze how the regulatory frameworks under development in Brazil and the world are prepared to receive these innovations.
