Formerly Statoil, we are 20,000 committed colleagues developing oil, gas, wind and solar energy in more than 30 countries worldwide. Driven by our Nordic urge to explore beyond the horizon, and our dedication to safety, equality and sustainability, we're building a global business on our values and the energy needs of the future. The role of the COO organisation is to drive consistent long term safe and efficient operational performance and value creation. The COO organisation is responsible for the corporate improvement programs and works closely with the line in continuously improving Equinor's performance. Are you interested in building great machine learning products that can help Equinor transform into a greener and more competitive energy company?

Even in traditional industries, aspirations are high. If there was a single overarching theme in our conversations with executives, it was the desire to succeed in digital and AI by developing new offerings and changing their companies' business models. For example, RBL Bank has launched India's first profitable open banking initiative. By opening its APIs to the public, RBL is allowing other companies to develop innovative services for the bank's customers. We see this trend in other industries, too.

HOUSTON--A Google executive wearing white jeans and a navy T-shirt stood before a roomful of suit-clad oil executives here last month and delivered a blunt sales pitch: We can manage your data better than you. Darryl Willis, part of a new group Google has created to court the oil and gas industry, said energy companies have reams of data but only use 5% of it, a serious problem in the digital economy. Signing a cloud deal with Google, part of Alphabet Inc., GOOGL 3.89% could solve that, he argued. "Companies in the oil and gas industry will either be a catalyst for change or they will be a casualty of change," he said during a presentation at the Unify Conference, an industry forum on digital technology put on by Baker Hughes, a part of General Electric Co. Silicon Valley has come to Houston, as tech companies push to sign oil and gas companies to lucrative cloud and artificial intelligence deals. In recent months, companies including Chevron Corp. CVX 2.08%, Equinor AS EQNR 1.00% A, Total SA TOT 1.14% and Repsol SA REP -0.06% have entered into contracts with companies such as Google and Microsoft Corp. MSFT -0.29% collectively worth billions of dollars.