Initially, the alliance will develop a the technologies, including power transmission, signal processing and electrical actuation, for application in deepwater.
Chevron corporate vice president and CTO John McDonald said this alliance is an opportunity to bridge public- and private-sector technology and research to discover oil and natural gas volumes that are found in deep remote reservoirs.
The technology developed by JPL for interplanetary missions is also useful for gaining a better understanding of the geology of Earth.
Chevron said JPL’s technology enables electronic communication over millions of miles in outer space, and the same technology may have application in deepwater energy operations, which extend thousands of feet below the surface of the ocean and encounter extreme pressures and temperatures.
