How AI is transforming the energy business The Times & The Sunday Times

In the age of heightened climate-change awareness and an increasingly urgent transition to low-carbon energy, the days when oil companies such as BP could rely purely on fossil fuels and make their own commercial weather are over, according to the FTSE 100's group head of technology, David Eyton. "For a period of time, being just oil and gas was sufficient," he says. "Now it's not; the world is changing, thank goodness. Most nations are embracing sustainable energy and the array of businesses that we [BP] might participate in is expanding." The role of technology – and of heads of technology – is also changing, he adds.