Case Study: Petrofac achieves faster remote engineering and lower costs with Microsoft Azure

Energy company supercharges remote work with Azure Virtual Desktop

Petrofac, a UK-based global energy services company, needed a way to support remote work for thousands of engineers handling large, complex 3D models across distributed teams. Using Microsoft Azure, including Azure Virtual Desktop and Microsoft Azure NetApp Files, the company aimed to improve flexibility, collaboration, and business continuity while reducing reliance on expensive onsite desktop infrastructure.

Microsoft Azure helped Petrofac deploy a scalable virtual desktop environment with high-performance storage and GPU-enabled virtual machines, while automation tools simplified management and cost control. The result was a rapid rollout—projects and engineers were up and running within three weeks—along with faster time to market, improved performance, better work-life balance, and significant cost savings through scalable, auto-scaling infrastructure.

Petrofac

Yvon Rannou

Head of Project Delivery Support Group