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Engineering Advisor James Cameron captured this image of the sun rising over Houston’s skyline from the 15th floor of ConocoPhillips Center SPIRIT One building. The company headquarters is home to more than 1,500 employees and contractors in two connected high-rise buildings named SPIRIT One and SPIRIT Two, referring to the company’s SPIRIT Values acronym – Safety, People, Integrity, Responsibility, Innovation and Teamwork. Since Sept. 28, 2020, the center has been fully reopened under rigorous COVID-19 mitigation protocols to ensure the health and safety of all colleagues. These protocols include screening questions and temperature checks; reduced capacity in conference rooms, elevators and cafeterias; strict social distancing practices; and mandatory face covering requirements when social distancing is not possible. | April 2021
ConocoPhillips supports the Smithsonian Institution initiative to collect connectivity data for bird species that follow a migratory flyway through the company’s areas of operation. A recent study has created a comprehensive picture of the 10,000-kilometer migratory route of common nighthawks using GPS data. The project included researchers from the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, University of Alberta and Environment and Climate Change Canada in a massive collaboration across 13 North American locations. Researchers fitted common nighthawks with small backpacks equipped with GPS transmitters to complete a picture of common nighthawk migratory connectivity, which is the degree to which birds from separate populations stick together during their migrations. In this photo, a common nighthawk is shown pre-release with a GPS transmitter. Watch the Smithsonian’s Common Nighthawk Migration Animation. | Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution. | March 2021
Global Aviation Alaska transitioned its fleet to new turboprop Bombardier Q400 aircraft last summer, marking the most significant change since the organization’s inception in 1984. The new fleet, including the SPIRIT of Innovation, SPIRIT of Alpine and SPIRIT of Kuparuk, means more direct flights and shorter wait times for travelers to ConocoPhillips’ Alaska assets. The Q400 fleet made its inaugural flight in June 2020. The SPIRIT of Innovation made the first U.S. gravel landing on October 5; and the SPIRIT of Alpine made the first direct flight with passengers to Alpine on November 17. The new direct Q400 flights increase productivity, and significantly reduce intra-field flights and emissions. | Photography by Glenn Aronwits, GA Panorams. | February 2021
An iconic Live Oak tree in the town of Kenedy, Texas home of the company’s Eagle Ford headquarters. The liquids-rich Eagle Ford tight oil trend, located in the Western Gulf Coast Basin of South Texas, represents the company’s most prolific unconventional resource development. ConocoPhillips was one of the first companies into the liquids play, resulting in a low-cost entry into this acreage. In 2009, the company began exploring the development potential of this play and by year-end 2019 held approximately 201,000 net leasehold and mineral acres, primarily in DeWitt, Karnes and Live Oak counties. | Photography by Patrick Currey | January 2021
The loaded crude tanker Polar Resolution heads outbound Prince William Sound under escort by two 12,336 h.p. Edison Chouest tugs. Polar Tanker, a subsidiary of ConocoPhillips, operates five tankers to deliver North Slope oil to the West Coast. Polar operations rely on many people coming and going from the ships, including crewmembers, navigational pilots, gaugers, terminal employees, regulators, auditors, and service providers. During a challenging 2020, Polar Tankers put COVID-19 policies in place to protect employees and mitigate risks. This work and the commitment of Polar employees enabled continued operations with minimal delays. | December 2020
Before sunrise during recent drilling operations in the Permian Delaware Basin, Drilling Supervisor Lloyd Shirley and Contractor Greg Rivera monitor the Roulette 3H well pad. Roulette is a six-well pad in the China Draw prospect area 12 miles north of Orla, Texas. The Permian Basin in West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico is a prime example of leveraging one of the company’s large legacy positions, using new technology and new ideas to test liquids-rich conventional and unconventional plays. | Photography by Patrick Currey | November 2020
When COVID-19 ground to a halt all non-essential work at ConocoPhillips’ Surmont oil sands joint venture in northeastern Alberta, Canada, the team went back to the drawing board to replan the 2020 work program. By staggering work and using a smaller pool of workers to limit the risk of COVID-19 transmission, the team navigated a complex outage at one of the two central processing facilities while executing the condensed work program safely and deliberately. | Photography by Sarah Murdoch, Modern Photography | October 2020
ConocoPhillips employee volunteers pack food bags at the Houston Food Bank during the 2018 United Way ‘Day of Caring.’ Employees throughout the United States participate in these community events in addition to donating more than $2 million annually to the cause. For this year’s campaign, Day of Caring has transitioned from in-person to virtual volunteer opportunities. Virtual volunteers give back to the community while practicing social distancing. ConocoPhillips will donate $100 to United Way of Greater Houston for every volunteer opportunity an employee participates in, up to $500 per person. | Photography by Hall Puckett | September 2020
After suspension in April due to the COVID-19 pandemic, construction of a new Propane Storage Unit at ConocoPhillips’ Teesside plant in the U.K. restarted in June. Completed in 1975, Teesside is a crude oil reception, processing, storage and transshipment installation. Crude oil and NGLs from the Greater Ekofisk and Valhall areas in Norway are delivered to Teesside. | August 2020
In June, ConocoPhillips made a public statement of support for LGBTQ+ rights by lighting up its Houston headquarters and raising the Pride Flag for the first time at both its Houston and Bartlesville campuses. The U.S. Supreme Court took an important step in the country’s long journey toward LGBTQ+ equality, ruling that the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits sex discrimination, applies to discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. ConocoPhillips’s Equal Employment Opportunity Policy prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity or expression, but until this ruling many other employers were free to discriminate on those bases. This long-sought decision extends the employment protections of the Civil Rights Act to millions of LGBTQ+ people. | Photography by Wes Clanton | July 2020
In April on the eve of Anzac Day, a national day of remembrance commemorating servicemen and women in Australia and New Zealand, ConocoPhillips Australia established the Veterans and Ex-Military Employee Network. Open to all employees and contractors, the new network recognizes and celebrates current and former service members. It also provides opportunities for employees to volunteer and fundraise in support of local communities; supports Veteran not-for-profit organizations; and creates employment pathways for returned servicemen and women. Shown here: ConocoPhillips Australia Operations Superintendent Chris Wille, a former aircraft maintenance engineer in the Royal Australian Air Force. | June 2020
After more than three months of closure due to strict social distancing to stop the spread of COVID‑19, the Forbidden City palace complex in central Beijing re‑opened to the public signaling that China’s capital city has brought the pandemic under control and is resuming business activities. During the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak, ConocoPhillips China donated more than $300,000 USD to procure life-saving medical supplies and support front-line medical personnel in Wuhan, the outbreak epicenter. ConocoPhillips is co‑venturer with operator CNOOC on Block 11/05 in the Bohai Sea, containing the Penglai 19‑3, 19‑9 and 25‑6 oil fields. These fields feature large offshore platforms, each averaging more than 50 wells that have benefited from extensive standardization of design. | May 2020
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, ConocoPhillips Norway is taking steps to protect offshore personnel, including social distancing and increased cleaning measures at the Sola Heliport. The number of personnel allowed on each flight has been reduced to 12. Offshore travelers are pre-screened before each flight to determine potential COVID-19 contact and symptoms. Staff frequently clean all heliport contact surfaces, including door handles, cash points and check-in terminals. Disposable gloves and antibacterial liquids are readily available. Security guards remind people to maintain social distance, and the number of chairs in the waiting area has been reduced to keep travelers six feet apart. | Photography by Garth Hannum | April 2020
A verdant palm oil plantation in the Colombian countryside sits in the shadow of the majestic Sierra de Perijá mountain range. ConocoPhillips Colombian team recently visited more than 200 kids, teenagers and adults from nearby San Martin municipality with the aim of sharing information to protect and conserve the ecology of the zone. Through recreational activities kids and teenagers learned new environmental conservation concepts, data of regional fauna and vegetation, and mechanisms of social participation for the communities. The regional ecological knowledge presented during these activities was acquired by ConocoPhillips Colombia through environmental impact studies for projects located in the area. | Photography by Patrick Currey | March 2020
In Jakarta’s Merdeka Square stands Indonesia’s National Monument. The obelisk is 137 meters tall and is topped with a 14.5-meter bronze flame coated with 32 kilograms of gold leaf. The structure houses the nation’s first red-and-white flag, flown at the Proclamation of Independence on August 17, 1945. ConocoPhillips has had a presence in Indonesia for more than 45 years. The company currently operates three onshore blocks, the Corridor Block PSC and the South Jambi ‘B’ PSC, both in South Sumatra, and the Kualakurun PSC in Central Kalimantan. | Photography by Patrick Currey | February 2020
Against the ultramodern skyline of Doha, traditional wooden sailing vessels known as dhows are moored along the Corniche, the city’s Arabian Gulf shoreline. Before the discovery of oil and gas transformed the nation into a modern economic powerhouse, Qatar had a long maritime tradition. Dhows were used for fishing, trading and pearl diving, then one of Qatar’s main industries. Since 2003, ConocoPhillips has partnered with Qatar Petroleum to develop Qatargas 3, a large-scale LNG project in Ras Laffan Industrial City. In 2010 the company launched the Global Water Sustainability Center, a team of experts dedicated to developing innovative solutions for treating and recycling byproduct water from oil and gas operations. | Photography by Martin Vargas | January 2020
Bartlesville, Oklahoma is home to approximately 1,000 ConocoPhillips employees. Most work on the downtown campus featuring (from left) the Frank Phillips Tower Center, Café on the Plaza and the Plaza Office Building. Founded by brothers Frank and L.E. Phillips in 1917, Phillips Petroleum Company was headquartered in Bartlesville until 2002, when Phillips and Conoco merged to create ConocoPhillips and the headquarters was relocated to Houston. | Photography by Patrick Currey | December 2019
The sun rises over a drilling rig in the Eagle Ford shale. Since 2009, ConocoPhillips has built the Eagle Ford into a legacy asset with production expected for years to come. The current focus is on full-field development, using customized spacing and stacking patterns adapted through reservoir understanding. | Photography by Patrick Currey | November 2019
A dramatic skyscape over the Rocky Mountains forms the backdrop for the newly completed Montney central processing facility in northeast British Columbia, Canada. On July 26, 2019 the Montney project completed 131 days of fracking the nearby 13-22 well pad, the largest unconventional pad for ConocoPhillips worldwide. | Drone photography by Salvador Garza | October 2019
This overhead drone shot shows part of ConocoPhillips’ new main campus, recently branded with signage visible from miles away. SPIRIT ONE is 22 floors high and home to many of the company’s functional departments; SPIRIT TWO is 21 floors and home to primarily the Lower 48 business unit. Both buildings are LEED certified for environmental sustainability. ConocoPhillips Center is located in Houston’s Energy Corridor. | Drone photography by Dan Blackson | September 2019
The desert region of southeastern New Mexico is home to part of ConocoPhillips’ Permian Basin oil and gas assets, as well as the recently opened field office in Loving, New Mexico. Near Loving lies Carlsbad Caverns National Park, home to more than 100 limestone caves in a fossil reef laid down by an inland sea about 265 million years ago. With 8.2 acres of floor area, the Big Room in Carlsbad Caverns is the largest cave chamber in North America. The park was designated a World Heritage Site by the United Nations in 1995, confirming the worldwide significance of its spectacular natural resources. | Photography by Patrick Currey | August 2019
The moon rises behind Doyon Rig 141 at Tinmiaq 15, ConocoPhillips Alaska’s first appraisal well of the 2019 winter season. Tinmiaq is part of the company’s Willow development in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. | Photography by Judy Patrick | July 2019
Behind a nondescript door in ConocoPhillips corporate center reside two tiers of sophisticated computer equipment, a wall of screens displaying an array of feeds, and a team of individuals committed to keeping the ConocoPhillips world safe. This 24/7 technology center monitors nearly 400 sites around the globe, more than 50,000 annual travel events and more than 18 enterprise security systems. The Global Security team focuses on impacts to the company globally with an emphasis on protecting people over assets. | Photography by Patrick Currey | June 2019
A new system for treating and recycling produced water at China Draw in the arid Permian Basin is saving ConocoPhillips millions of dollars. More important, it preserves fresh water for humans and animals. The treated produced water is stored in these two pits, with a combined storage capacity of 1.5 million barrels, for use in the hydraulic fracturing of future wells. | May 2019
ConocoPhillips is a coventurer in the Malikai tension-leg platform located in Block G off the eastern Malaysian state of Sabah. The Malikai-1 exploration well was drilled in 2004, resulting in an oil discovery. First production from the field was achieved in 2016, and the field reached peak production in 2018. The KMU-1 exploration well was completed in early 2018 and started producing via the Malikai platform in mid-2018. ConocoPhillips’ involvement in Malaysia began in 2000. The company currently holds 2.2 million net acres in the country across six blocks in varying stages of exploration, development and production. | April 2019
Well Pad Panel Operator Ryan Balaski used his smartphone to take this night-time photo of well pad 261-3 at ConocoPhillips’ Surmont oil sands joint venture in northeastern Alberta, Canada. | March 2019
The new home of ConocoPhillips Commercial, a high-tech space with a mission control vibe, is a hub for more than 230 traders, marketers, schedulers, analysts, risk management personnel, compliance personnel, accountants and others — all working together in a synchronized frenzy. These employees provide a daily interface to the company’s field offices as well as transportation, pipeline and trucking companies. Getting the Commercial group comfortably settled into its new digs on the 20th floor of 925 N. Eldridge Parkway — safely and without any business interruption — took two years of planning, a complex strategy and the full team’s commitment to machine-like precision. | Photography by Gus Morgan | February 2019
At ConocoPhillips’ M. Gohlke A2-A7 six-wellhead pad in southwest Texas’ Eagle Ford shale, operators conduct a zipper frack. Developed by professors at Texas Tech University, the technique involves drilling two wells side by side and, once both wells are completed, fracking them simultaneously. ConocoPhillips is a proponent of zipper fracking because it reduces downtime, increases efficiencies and maximizes production volume. | Drone photography by Salvador Garza | January 2019
A view of ConocoPhillips Grissik Gas Plant through the lush foliage of South Sumatra, Indonesia. The Grissik team was honored in 2017 with the CSR of Health, an annual corporate social responsibility (CSR) recognition sponsored by Indonesia’s Ministry of Health. ConocoPhillips holds a 54 percent interest in the Corridor Block PSC located in South Sumatra, consisting of five oil fields and seven natural gas fields. Natural gas produced through the block is sold through long-term contracts to the Indonesian and Singapore markets. | Photography by Patrick Currey | December 2018
On August 27, 2018, ConocoPhillips China (COPC) and CNOOC staff jointly witnessed the first oil on the WHP-V Platform, an important milestone for the Bohai Phase 3 project. Comprised of three wellhead platforms, three drilling-completion-workover rigs, one central processing platform, 186 new wells and 49 sidetracks, the project was sanctioned in December 2015 by ConocoPhillips’ Board of Directors and is expected to deliver peak production by 2022. COPC and CNOOC have engaged in longstanding cooperation regarding the Bohai Peng Lai Field since the 1990s. Since the operatorship transferred to CNOOC in 2014, COPC has continued to provide project management and multidisciplinary technical support. | November 2018
At Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay, a grove of Supertrees frames the iconic Marina Bay Sands, a luxury resort on the city’s Marina Bay. Gardens by the Bay features a wide range of plant species and garden design and reflects the work of a team of professionals committed to the greening of Singapore. Owned by the Las Vegas Sands corporation, when Marina Bay Sands opened in 2010, it was billed as the world’s most expensive standalone casino property. ConocoPhillips’ Singapore office serves as the company’s Asia Pacific and Middle East commercial and trading hub and provides functional support to business units throughout the region. | Photography by Patrick Currey | October 2018
A look at ConocoPhillips’ past and future. In the foreground, the company’s corporate headquarters for 34 years, located at 600 North Dairy Ashford Road in Houston, Texas. This month, the company begins moving employees into nearby Energy Center 4 (center back), a modern high rise located at the intersection of Eldridge Parkway and Interstate 10. The Dairy Ashford campus was constructed in 1984 and served as the headquarters of Conoco until the merger with Phillips in 2002. | September 2018
In remote northeast British Columbia, Canada, a drilling rig operates in the liquids-rich Montney play. In 2018, ConocoPhillips will drill 14 wells and is breaking ground on a gas plant and water hub. | Photography by Sarah Murdoch, Modern Photography | August 2018
In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1.5 million people gather at the Batu Caves to celebrate Thaipusam, a Tamil Hindu festival honoring Lord Murugan, the Hindu god of war and a son of Shiva. The 270-foot statue of Lord Murugan marks the base of the steps leading up to the caves. Prior to the pilgrimage up the steps, devout Hindus shave their heads and cleanse in the nearby river. Some will mark the occasion by piercing their flesh with needles and hooks. ConocoPhillips Malaysia has interests in six blocks in the eastern states of Sabah and Sarawak. | Photography by Gaylon Wampler | July 2018
Members of ConocoPhillips’ Global Aviation Services organization gather in front of the company’s Embraer ERJ135 jet at the Bartlesville Municipal Airport. The 37-seat aircraft shuttles ConocoPhillips and Phillips 66 personnel between Houston, Texas and Bartlesville, Oklahoma, serving approximately 20,000 passengers per year. In the 1920s, both companies entered the world of aviation, using their own airplanes and developing products for the emerging market. | Photography by Hall Puckett | June 2018
On Saturday, April 28, members of ConocoPhillips’ BP MS 150 team prepare to join about 8,000 riders on their journey from Houston to Austin, Texas. The 2018 ConocoPhillips team covered 102 miles after this photo was taken and another 66 miles on Sunday. Together team members raised more than $200,000 to fight multiple sclerosis. ConocoPhillips was one of the first Houston companies to field a team, beginning in 1988, the third year of the event. Since then the team has raised $6.93 million to benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. ConocoPhillips riders have also been regular contributors on the board of the National MS Society, as well as the steering and safety committees for the annual ride. | Photography by Hall Puckett | May 2018
The Aasta Hansteen hull and topsides begin their journey from the Stord shipyard, where they were recently mated, to the development location in the Norwegian Sea, 186 miles offshore Norway. The platform was named for a Norwegian painter, writer and early feminist; a naming ceremony was held on Women's Day, March 8, 2018. The Aasta Hansteen development is a gas discovery in a water depth of 4,265 feet. First gas is targeted by late 2018. The development includes the Polarled Pipeline, which will transport gas to the onshore processing facility at Nyhamna. ConocoPhillips has interests in these facilities of 4.5 percent and 1.7 percent, respectively. | Photography by Espen Roennevik, courtesy of Statoil | April 2018