Our goals with digital technology

are to be more efficient about the

way we produce oil and gas.

This is a big undertaking and trying to

digitally transform our operations and do

things in a fundamentally different way.

while we're trying to increase volumes

multiple times over

The scale, the remoteness, and the vastness

of the Permian Basin make all of that a

challenge. Permian is very,

very data rich, but unfortunately, that data

is stranded out in the field or

in silo databases. That's

one of the strengths Microsoft helps bring to the table.

It's not only Azure and Dynamics 365

that really integrate well with our vision,

but then the knowledge of how to apply

some advanced digital techniques

to data and how to utilize those

platforms in a very efficient manner.

Dynamics 365 for Field Service

ties in very well with

our Azure Data Lake, so the process

of transferring data becomes seamless.

It allows us to access that data

via web and mobile tools, so

whether it's folks out in the field sitting in their office

or in an integrated control center, they

all have access to the same data and

can do their job more effectively.

We can look at the data for one specific

well and very quickly understand

what to do to improve performance all

the way up to a bird's eye view

of looking at what we can do

intelligently across the basin to

optimize performance

by reducing the amount of times we

have to go out in the field and touch the equipment, reducing

the number of process upsets we have and

the amount of downtime we have that also helps

us meet our goals in terms of safety

and environmental performance,

and that directly leads to the bottom line

for our business.