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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Alex Lawson Business correspondent

BP extends use of AI in five-year deal with spy tech firm Palantir

BP's Valhall platform in the North Sea
BP has used Palantir’s tech to create a ‘digital twin’ of its oil and gas operations, including in the North Sea. Photograph: BP/Kjetil Alsvik/EPA

The oil and gas supermajor BP is to use artificial intelligence to speed up the decision-making of its engineers, after signing a five-year deal with the US spy technology company Palantir.

The British company plans to use large language models to automatically analyse data from its sites and produce advice to help humans come to conclusions.

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