Who leads AI at ConocoPhillips?

AI at ConocoPhillips is led by Konnie Haynes-Welsh (Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President, Digital and Transformation); Pragati Mathur (Chief Digital & Information Officer); Bo Hu (Director of Data Science and AI). Ownership of AI on the org chart: CFO and SVP Digital and Transformation Konnie Haynes-Welsh (since Sep 2026).

What AI platform does ConocoPhillips use?

ConocoPhillips has named no enterprise AI platform: its AI runs as models inside operational and commercial workflows, built by product teams that pair business experts with Chief Digital & Information Officer Pragati Mathur's staff, and by a data science and AI group led by Bo Hu.

Which AI models does ConocoPhillips use?

ConocoPhillips has named no model provider or generative AI assistant; the models it describes predict drilling-motor failures, check gas-lift wells with a physics-based calculation and forecast gas markets and well decline, and Pragati Mathur said in Aug 2025 that her team had vetted 100 AI companies.

How many ConocoPhillips employees use AI?

ConocoPhillips has not said how many of its about 9,900 employees use AI; its named AI uses sit with drilling, production, reservoir and commercial teams, and staff learn through a citizen developer program and data analytics training.

How far has AI spread at ConocoPhillips?

ConocoPhillips has reported no current business return it credits to AI: Pragati Mathur called the decline-curve savings significant in Aug 2025 and Nick Olds said in Mar 2026 that AI gas-lift checks cut site visits, both without a figure; its earnings calls of Aug 2025, Nov 2025, Feb 2026 and Aug 2026 give no AI figure; its more than $1 billion cost program is not credited to AI; and the AI-credited figures on record, more than $3 million of Eagle Ford drilling savings (Aug 2023) and a paraffin process saving over 125,000 barrels of oil equivalent a year (Mar 2023), are more than three years old. ConocoPhillips has not reported a company-wide AI rollout with a user count either: it names no employee AI assistant and has not said how many of its about 9,900 employees use AI, though Ryan Lance said in May 2026 that AI is being embedded in core business processes and CFO Konnie Haynes-Welsh has overseen digital technology since Sep 2026. ConocoPhillips is therefore at Experimenting, despite AI in production in its fields; one current return it credits to AI, such as a figure for the gas-lift checks, or a stated count of employees using AI tools with a named owner would move it to Piloting.

Verified Nov 1, 2026

ConocoPhillips

Experimenting

Oil and gas
~9,900 employees
Digital under the CFO
AI in gas lift and drilling
No AI platform named
No current AI return

ConocoPhillips deploys AI inside its oil and gas operations: AI checks gas-lift wells daily and machine learning predicts drilling-motor failures in its Lower 48 fields, and models forecast gas supply and demand and well decline. Ryan Lance, then CEO, said in May 2026 that AI is being embedded in core processes under an enterprise governance framework. Chief Digital & Information Officer Pragati Mathur's team builds the uses with business product teams; ConocoPhillips has disclosed no current return it credits to AI, AI user count, employee AI assistant or model provider.

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Their approach to AI

The platform: ConocoPhillips has named no enterprise AI platform: its AI runs as models inside operational and commercial workflows, built by product teams that pair business experts with Chief Digital & Information Officer Pragati Mathur's staff, and by a data science and AI group led by Bo Hu.
The models: ConocoPhillips has named no model provider or generative AI assistant; the models it describes predict drilling-motor failures, check gas-lift wells with a physics-based calculation and forecast gas markets and well decline, and Pragati Mathur said in Aug 2025 that her team had vetted 100 AI companies.
The reach: ConocoPhillips has not said how many of its about 9,900 employees use AI; its named AI uses sit with drilling, production, reservoir and commercial teams, and staff learn through a citizen developer program and data analytics training.
The catch: ConocoPhillips reports no current return on AI: the last AI-credited figure, more than $3 million of Eagle Ford drilling savings, dates from Aug 2023, Pragati Mathur gave no figure for the decline-curve savings she called significant in Aug 2025, and the company does not tie its more than $1 billion cost program or its 2025 job cuts to AI.

Snapshot

Employees: ~9,900; Dec 31, 2025; 62% in the U.S., 16% in Norway, 8% in Canada
Technology budget: Not disclosed; Research and development expensed: $78M in 2025
AI/ML headcount: Not disclosed; A Director of Data Science and AI, Bo Hu, leads teams building AI and machine learning (May 2026)
Who owns AI: Konnie Haynes-Welsh; CFO and SVP Digital and Transformation since Sep 2026; CD&IO Pragati Mathur leads the digital function
Platform: None named; Models built with business product teams; gas-lift AI runs on existing well telemetry
Models: Not disclosed; No model provider or generative AI assistant named
Reach: Not disclosed; Drilling, production, reservoir and commercial teams
Use cases: Gas lift, drilling, forecasting; Production uses named from 2023 to Mar 2026

Key findings

Ryan Lance, ConocoPhillips' CEO until Aug 31, 2026, told stockholders on May 12, 2026 that AI builds on the company's long use of data, analytics and modeling and is being embedded in core business processes, with every application governed by an enterprise framework on governance, security and responsible use.
ConocoPhillips' named AI uses sit in operations and commercial work: Chief Digital & Information Officer Pragati Mathur said in Aug 2025 that AI now checks every gas-lift well on digital telemetry each day and that models predict drilling-motor failures and forecast natural gas supply, demand and well decline, and Nick Olds said in Mar 2026 that AI-driven gas-lift optimization is cutting site visits on Lower 48 wells.
ConocoPhillips' digital function has changed reporting lines twice: its Chief Digital & Information Officer reported to the CFO in Feb 2025 and to EVP Kirk Johnson in Feb 2026, and since Sep 2026 CFO Konnie Haynes-Welsh also holds the title SVP Digital and Transformation.
ConocoPhillips reports no current return on AI; its last AI-credited figure was more than $3 million of Eagle Ford drilling savings, about $30,000 per well, reported in Aug 2023, Pragati Mathur gave no figure for the decline-curve savings she called significant in Aug 2025, and the more than $1 billion cost and margin program announced in Aug 2025 is credited to workforce centralization, operating and transport costs and new systems, not to AI.
ConocoPhillips had about 9,900 employees at the end of 2025, down from about 11,800 a year earlier, in a year when it booked $286 million of severance for a restructuring; Ryan Lance said in Sep 2025 that the company would need fewer roles as it took work out of the system, and ConocoPhillips has not tied the reduction to AI.

Where ConocoPhillips sits

Stage: Experimenting
ConocoPhillips has reported no current business return it credits to AI: Pragati Mathur called the decline-curve savings significant in Aug 2025 and Nick Olds said in Mar 2026 that AI gas-lift checks cut site visits, both without a figure; its earnings calls of Aug 2025, Nov 2025, Feb 2026 and Aug 2026 give no AI figure; its more than $1 billion cost program is not credited to AI; and the AI-credited figures on record, more than $3 million of Eagle Ford drilling savings (Aug 2023) and a paraffin process saving over 125,000 barrels of oil equivalent a year (Mar 2023), are more than three years old. ConocoPhillips has not reported a company-wide AI rollout with a user count either: it names no employee AI assistant and has not said how many of its about 9,900 employees use AI, though Ryan Lance said in May 2026 that AI is being embedded in core business processes and CFO Konnie Haynes-Welsh has overseen digital technology since Sep 2026. ConocoPhillips is therefore at Experimenting, despite AI in production in its fields; one current return it credits to AI, such as a figure for the gas-lift checks, or a stated count of employees using AI tools with a named owner would move it to Piloting.
How the stages are defined
Ownership: CFO and SVP Digital and Transformation Konnie Haynes-Welsh (since Sep 2026)
Platform: Hybrid: No named AI platform; own models plus vendor tools
Models: No provider named; models for drilling, gas lift and forecasting
Hosting: Not disclosed; filings cite unnamed third-party cloud providers, and reservoir modeling was set to move to SLB's cloud-based DELFI in 2022
Reach: Not disclosed; drilling, production, reservoir and commercial teams

How they deploy

AI as an extension of analytics

Ryan Lance, then CEO, told ConocoPhillips stockholders on May 12, 2026 that AI is an increasingly important enabler that builds on the company's long-standing use of data, analytics and modeling. Lance said ConocoPhillips is embedding AI into core business processes to improve reliability, efficiency and execution quality by scaling proven approaches, and is deliberate about applying AI where it could change how work is planned and executed.

Operations first

ConocoPhillips states its digital ambition as enterprise-wide, scalable solutions that improve safety, reduce operational emissions, lower the cost of supply and make operations more efficient. ConocoPhillips' named AI uses all sit in that frame: machine learning for drilling parameters, drilling-motor failures and paraffin risk in the Eagle Ford, AI-driven gas-lift optimization on Lower 48 wells, forecasting of natural gas markets and well decline, and AI and machine learning for equipment optimization and machine life.

Product teams and a value test

Pragati Mathur, ConocoPhillips' Chief Digital & Information Officer, said in Aug 2025 that the company began developing its AI strategy a few years earlier in line with its digital strategy, and that AI investments must tie to efficiency, cost, safety, shareholder returns and lower Scope 1 and 2 emissions. Mathur said her staff sit on global, matrixed product teams whose owners are usually business experts, and that the team vetted 100 AI companies and spent two days with the 25 it picked.

Automation alongside AI

ConocoPhillips pairs its AI work with automation it does not label AI: software bots for rules-based processes, digital twins at facilities in Norway, Alaska, Australia and Canada, autonomous drone trials at the Teesside oil terminal, and a robotic pipe-handling rig in the Montney. ConocoPhillips said in Jun 2023 that digital twins could become the system of systems for autonomous operation of its assets, and Nick Olds said in Mar 2026 that a Permian trial used real-time fiber-optic measurements to adjust fracturing equipment automatically.

Build skills in-house, buy tools where faster

ConocoPhillips trains employees through a citizen developer program, data analytics training and rotation programs, and has funded data science programs at five U.S. universities since 2019. ConocoPhillips' Lower 48 drilling team said in Aug 2023 that it was trialing outside software that optimizes drilling parameters and connects to rig set points, to get results faster than building the software itself.

Digital moved under the CFO

ConocoPhillips' Chief Digital & Information Officer reported to the EVP and CFO according to the 2024 Form 10-K, filed Feb 2025, and to the EVP of Global Operations and Technical Functions, Kirk Johnson, according to the 2025 Form 10-K, filed Feb 2026. Since Sep 2026, CFO Konnie Haynes-Welsh has also been SVP Digital and Transformation, overseeing finance, digital technology and the company's transformation efforts under new CEO Andy O'Brien.

Deployment model: ConocoPhillips runs digital technology, AI included, through a global Digital Technology organization led by Chief Digital & Information Officer Pragati Mathur, which its 2027 internship calls Digital & IT, with digital technology managers in its regional businesses, such as Alaska, Canada, and Europe and North Africa. ConocoPhillips builds its AI uses in global product teams owned by business experts, with Mathur's staff on each team, and Director of Data Science and AI Bo Hu leads teams that build and deploy AI and machine learning across geoscience, reservoir engineering, wells and production, supply chain, finance and commercial work. Earlier models came from operations teams: the Lower 48 drilling model joined Gulf Coast and Rockies Wells, Global Wells and IT. Since Sep 2026, CFO and SVP Digital and Transformation Konnie Haynes-Welsh oversees digital technology.
Model providers: ConocoPhillips has named no large language model provider, generative AI assistant or coding assistant in its filings, earnings calls, annual meeting, newsroom or executive interviews through Oct 2026. The models ConocoPhillips describes are its own or unattributed: a Lower 48 model trained on three years of drilling data from 116 wells that predicts the best drilling parameters (Aug 2023), a model that predicts drilling-motor failures, AI run as a physics-based calculation that checks gas-lift wells daily, and models that forecast natural gas supply and demand and well decline (Pragati Mathur, Aug 2025), plus a machine learning system that flags paraffin risk from gas composition in the Eagle Ford (Mar 2023). ConocoPhillips' Lower 48 drilling team was trialing outside drilling-optimization software in Aug 2023, Corva AI won a 2023 ConocoPhillips supplier award for its work with Global Wells, and SLB said in Mar 2022 that it would help integrate cloud-based digital solutions and AI into ConocoPhillips' reservoir engineering.
Data and infrastructure: ConocoPhillips consolidated separate business-unit drilling databases from 2019 into the Global Wells Data Warehouse, which held about one billion rows of well data in Mar 2021. ConocoPhillips agreed in Mar 2022 to move its reservoir modeling, data and workflows to SLB's cloud-based DELFI platform, and its gas-lift AI uses the digital telemetry already on its wells (Aug 2025). ConocoPhillips' digital twins, pioneered in Norway, ran on a single software solution in Jun 2023, when the company planned a common cloud and data access layer for them, and an upgrade planned for summer 2025 was to improve the Canadian twins' data integration with SAP and documents. ConocoPhillips' 2025 Form 10-K says third-party cloud and service providers collect, host or process some company data without naming them, and Ryan Lance cited a newly implemented company-wide enterprise resource planning system in Aug 2025. ConocoPhillips has not said where its AI models run.

Platforms and internal tools

Global Wells Data Warehouse2019 to 2021
The Global Wells Data Warehouse is ConocoPhillips' central repository for drilling and completions operational data, built by merging the warehouses its business units had copied from an Eagle Ford model; it held about one billion rows of well data in Mar 2021, with plug-and-abandonment and well integrity data being added, alongside faster Spotfire dashboards.
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Global Digital Twin programBy 2023
ConocoPhillips' digital twins are 3D replicas of facilities linked to engineering documents and operating data, pioneered in Norway for North Sea platforms, then used in Alaska and at Australia Pacific LNG, and rolled out at Surmont and Montney in Canada in 2025. The program won a 2023 CIO 100 award, and ConocoPhillips said in Jun 2023 that its licensing allows unlimited use of the software.
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Process automation bots
ConocoPhillips runs software bots built with robotic process automation for rules-based, repetitive processes, together with intelligent optical character recognition, process mining and digital assistants, and says employees save over 100,000 hours of processing a year with automation; ConocoPhillips says AI and machine learning could make the bots adapt to system upgrades. An undated UiPath case study says ConocoPhillips automates with UiPath, counts about 800 citizen developers and lets business users build smaller automations in UiPath StudioX.
Users
About 800 citizen developers (UiPath, undated)
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Vendors and partners

SLBMar 2022
Cloud-based DELFI platform for reservoir modeling · ConocoPhillips agreed to move its reservoir modeling, data and workflows to SLB's DELFI platform, with Petrel, Intersect and Eclipse and cloud high-performance computing, and SLB said it would help integrate cloud-based digital solutions and AI (JPT, Mar 2022).
UiPath
Robotic process automation · An undated UiPath case study says ConocoPhillips automates well-trajectory monitoring for collision alerts and smaller processes built by citizen developers with UiPath tools; ConocoPhillips groups this work under automation rather than AI.
Corva AIBy 2023
Supplier to Global Wells · Corva AI received a Doing Business Better award in ConocoPhillips' 2023 Supplier Recognition Award program, announced in Mar 2024.
Precision Drilling
Robotic pipe-handling rig in the Montney · Precision Drilling's rig PD 868, which ConocoPhillips called the first land rig in North America with modular robotics for pipe handling, is part of a three-year collaboration (Jun 2025).
SAP
Enterprise software; data source for the Canadian digital twins · ConocoPhillips said in May 2025 that an upgrade would improve the Canadian digital twins' data integration with SAP and engineering documents, and ASUG listed a Jul 2026 session in which ConocoPhillips and SAP were to present the company's enterprise AI approach.
Oklahoma State University, University of Houston, University of Oklahoma, University of Texas and Texas A&M University2019
Data science education funded by ConocoPhillips · ConocoPhillips gave nearly $3 million to four universities in Apr 2019 and $1 million for a Texas A&M certificate in data analytics for the petroleum industry in Aug 2021.

Leadership

AI, data and platform leaders

Konnie Haynes-Welsh

Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President, Digital and Transformation

Konnie Haynes-Welsh joined ConocoPhillips in 2012 from roles at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Mariner Energy, served as chief accounting officer, treasurer and, from Mar 2025, VP Finance and Controller, and became CFO on Sep 1, 2026. Haynes-Welsh's remit covers finance, digital technology and the company's transformation efforts.

Pragati Mathur

Chief Digital & Information Officer

Pragati Mathur leads ConocoPhillips' digital function and set out its AI strategy and uses in an Aug 2025 CIO.com interview; ConocoPhillips stories named Mathur Chief Digital & Information Officer in 2023, and a May 2026 Metis Strategy Summit listing still gave that title. Mathur was earlier chief technology officer at Staples, an SVP of technology at Biogen and chief enterprise architect at Boeing, and holds a master's in information technology from Carnegie Mellon University.

Bo Hu

Director of Data Science and AI

Bo Hu leads ConocoPhillips teams that develop and deploy AI and machine learning across geoscience, reservoir engineering, wells and production operations and business functions such as supply chain, finance and commercial, according to a JPT author biography from May 2026. Hu has 20 years in energy, nine of them as a data scientist, a PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Alberta, and a seat on SPE's Data Science and Engineering Analytics board.

Annessa McKenzie

Chief Information Security Officer

A ConocoPhillips story from Aug 2023 named Annessa McKenzie Chief Information Security Officer, and an Apr 2026 Security Boulevard list described McKenzie as CISO and Vice President, also covering enterprise architecture and infrastructure. ConocoPhillips' 2025 Form 10-K says its CISO, unnamed, joined in that role in 2022, has been a CISO since 2013, leads the IT/OT Security Team and reports to the Chief Digital & Information Officer.

Randy John

Manager, Alaska Digital Technologies

Randy John leads digital strategy, IT operations and technology delivery for ConocoPhillips Alaska and helps shape Alaska's digital and AI strategy, with a focus on production optimization through digital and AI capabilities. John has 22 years at ConocoPhillips, starting in finance, and previously managed Commercial and Marine IT.

Anne Mette Pettersen

Manager, Digital Technology for Europe and North Africa

Anne Mette Pettersen covers the Norwegian business unit, including the Teesside oil terminal, plus Europe and Libya, as a member of ConocoPhillips' global Digital Technology organization with a focus on digital development, data analytics and artificial intelligence. Pettersen joined Phillips Petroleum in 1992 and holds a master's degree in cybernetics from the University of Stavanger.

Executives

Andy O'Brien

President and Chief Executive Officer

Andy O'Brien became ConocoPhillips' President and CEO on Sep 1, 2026, after joining Conoco in 1997 and holding finance, planning and strategy roles. O'Brien was SVP Strategy, Commercial, Sustainability and Technology from Mar 2024 to May 2025 and CFO and EVP Strategy and Commercial from Jun 2025 until Aug 2026, according to the 2025 Form 10-K and the Aug 2026 succession release.

Ryan Lance

Executive Chair of the Board

Ryan Lance was ConocoPhillips' chairman and CEO from May 2012 until Aug 31, 2026 and became executive chair in Sep 2026; Lance was earlier SVP Technology and SVP Technology and Major Projects. Lance gave the company's account of its AI approach at the May 12, 2026 annual meeting.

Kirk Johnson

Executive Vice President, Global Operations and Technical Functions

Kirk Johnson has run Global Operations and Technical Functions since Jun 2025, covering Alaska, Asia Pacific, Canada and Europe, Middle East and Africa plus the global technical functions. Johnson began his career at BP in 1997, joined ConocoPhillips in 2008 and was President, Canada, and SVP Lower 48 Assets and Operations; the 2025 Form 10-K, filed Feb 2026, had the Chief Digital & Information Officer reporting to him.

Nick Olds

Executive Vice President, Lower 48 and Global HSE

Nick Olds began his career with Conoco in 1992 and has led the Lower 48, ConocoPhillips' largest business, since Nov 2022, adding global health, safety and environment in Jan 2026. Olds described AI-driven gas-lift optimization on Lower 48 wells in a Mar 2026 interview published by ConocoPhillips.

Khoa Dao

Senior Vice President, Commercial and Strategy

Khoa Dao leads ConocoPhillips' strategy and long-term planning and its global commercial work in natural gas, LNG, crude oil, natural gas liquids and power, according to the company's leadership biography and its Sep 2026 leadership story. Dao was earlier ConocoPhillips' chief commercial officer, CEO of Australia Pacific LNG and president of ConocoPhillips Australia.

Heather Hrap

Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Real Estate and Facilities Services

Heather Hrap has led ConocoPhillips' human resources and its real estate and facilities services since Mar 2022, after serving as VP Human Resources from Jan 2019, according to the 2025 Form 10-K. Hrap joined ConocoPhillips in 2006 from Schering-Plough, where she was HR director for global information technology and legal.

Shannon Kinney

Senior Vice President, Legal, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

Shannon Kinney returned to ConocoPhillips in 2026 to lead legal, governance and compliance, plus global security, communications and brand, after serving from 2023 as EVP, chief administrative officer, general counsel and corporate secretary of Chord Energy. Kinney was earlier ConocoPhillips' VP, deputy general counsel, chief compliance officer and corporate secretary, in a first stint from 2012 to 2023.

Andrew Lundquist

Senior Vice President, Government Affairs and Surface Lands

Andrew Lundquist has been ConocoPhillips' SVP Government Affairs since Feb 2013 and now also manages the company's more than 860,000 acres of surface lands, leading its state, federal and international policy and regulatory advocacy. Lundquist directed the White House National Energy Policy Development Group in 2001.

Board

Sharmila Mulligan

Independent director

Sharmila Mulligan has been a ConocoPhillips director since Jul 2017 and sits on the Audit and Finance Committee, which oversees information systems and cybersecurity. Mulligan founded ClearStory Data and was Chief Strategy Officer at Alteryx, and the 2026 proxy statement cites her experience in artificial intelligence, cloud computing and data analytics.

AI org map

Global Digital Technology organization under the CFO, with regional digital managers and AI built in business-owned product teams

ConocoPhillips names no chief AI officer. ConocoPhillips' Chief Digital & Information Officer, Pragati Mathur, leads the global Digital Technology organization, with regional digital technology managers in the business units, and Director of Data Science and AI Bo Hu leads AI and machine learning teams whose reporting line is not published. The CD&IO reported to the CFO in Feb 2025 and to Kirk Johnson, EVP Global Operations and Technical Functions, in Feb 2026, and since Sep 2026 CFO Konnie Haynes-Welsh, also SVP Digital and Transformation, oversees digital technology, reporting to CEO Andy O'Brien.

ConocoPhillips has not disclosed how many people work in AI or data science. ConocoPhillips' AI work sits in its global Digital Technology organization under Chief Digital & Information Officer Pragati Mathur, which recruits for artificial intelligence, data engineering, cloud engineering, IoT, automation development and emerging digital technologies; in a data science and AI group led by Director Bo Hu, whose teams work across geoscience, reservoir engineering, wells, production and business functions; with regional digital technology managers in Alaska, Canada, and Europe and North Africa; and in engineering analytics teams inside operations such as Global Wells and Lower 48 Wells. ConocoPhillips' IT internships are based mainly in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and Houston.

Reporting lines

President and CEO
Andy O'Brien
- Finance, Digital and Transformation
  Konnie Haynes-Welsh, CFO and SVP
  Oversees finance, digital technology and transformation since Sep 2026
  - Chief Digital & Information Office
    Pragati Mathur
    Line inferred from Haynes-Welsh's remit; the Feb 2026 Form 10-K had the CD&IO under Global Operations and Technical Functions
    - IT/OT Security
      Annessa McKenzie, Chief Information Security Officer
    - Alaska Digital Technologies
      Randy John
      Works with Alaska and enterprise teams; direct line not published
    - Digital Technology, Europe and North Africa
      Anne Mette Pettersen
      Member of the global Digital Technology organization
    - Canada Digital Technologies
      Brett Denton
      Direct line not published
- Global Operations and Technical Functions
  Kirk Johnson, EVP
- Lower 48 and Global HSE
  Nick Olds, EVP
  Home of the drilling and gas-lift AI uses

ConocoPhillips does not publish an org chart below its executive leadership team. The reporting line of the Chief Digital & Information Officer comes from the cybersecurity sections of the 2024 and 2025 Forms 10-K; the line to Konnie Haynes-Welsh after Sep 2026 is inferred from her published remit over digital technology, and the lines of the regional digital managers and of Bo Hu's data science and AI group are not published.

Named people

Executive sponsors

Andy O'Brien
President and CEO (since Sep 1, 2026)
Ryan Lance
Executive Chair · Set out the company's AI approach at the May 2026 annual meeting

Digital and transformation

Konnie Haynes-Welsh
CFO and SVP Digital and Transformation
Pragati Mathur
Chief Digital & Information Officer · Named in that role in 2023, Aug 2025 and May 2026
Annessa McKenzie
Chief Information Security Officer · Named in Aug 2023 and Apr 2026

Data science and AI

Bo Hu
Director of Data Science and AI · Reporting line not published

Regional digital technology

Randy John
Manager, Alaska Digital Technologies
Anne Mette Pettersen
Manager, Digital Technology for Europe and North Africa
Brett Denton
Manager, Digital Technologies, ConocoPhillips Canada · Since Nov 2023

Operations that own AI use cases

Kirk Johnson
EVP, Global Operations and Technical Functions
Nick Olds
EVP, Lower 48 and Global HSE · Lower 48 runs the AI-driven gas-lift and drilling models

Use cases

ConocoPhillips has named a small set of AI and machine learning uses in production, all in operations and commercial work: AI checks of gas-lift wells (Aug 2025 and Mar 2026), a drilling-motor failure model and drilling-parameter models (2023 to 2025), natural gas supply and demand forecasting and decline-curve forecasting (Aug 2025), paraffin risk detection in the Eagle Ford (2023) and equipment optimization, after earlier pilots on rod pumps and fiber-optic data. ConocoPhillips has published no count of AI use cases and no current return for any of them: Pragati Mathur called the decline-curve savings significant in Aug 2025 without a figure, the last AI-credited figure, more than $3 million of Eagle Ford drilling savings, dates from Aug 2023, and ConocoPhillips reports no firm-level return on AI.

Use case	Area	Status
AI-driven gas-lift optimization ConocoPhillips uses gas lift on thousands of wells that produce nearly 500,000 barrels of oil a day, and Pragati Mathur said in Aug 2025 that AI, run as a trusted physics-based calculation on existing digital telemetry, now assesses each of those wells daily, where one engineer used to manage about a dozen a day, with more frequent adjustments and more hydrocarbons lifted. Nick Olds said in Mar 2026 that AI-driven gas-lift optimization on existing Lower 48 wells improves reliability, reduces site visits and lifts well performance.	Lower 48 production	In production
Drilling-motor failure prediction and drilling-parameter optimization A Gulf Coast and Rockies Wells team built machine learning models that predict drilling-motor failures and, from three years of data on 116 wells and more than 138,000 observations, the best drilling parameters; in Eagle Ford tests they cut premature drilling-motor failures by 65% and raised vertical drilling speed by 20% (Aug 2023), and Pragati Mathur cited the drilling-motor failure model as a working AI use in Aug 2025.	Lower 48 drilling	In production
Natural gas supply and demand forecasting ConocoPhillips uses AI models to forecast natural gas supply and demand more accurately, including flows on the interconnectors between the UK and the EU, according to Pragati Mathur (Aug 2025).	Commercial	In production
Predictive decline curves ConocoPhillips uses AI on historical well data to forecast supply through decline curves and is applying the approach to reserves forecasting; Pragati Mathur called the cost savings significant in Aug 2025 but gave no figure.	Reservoir and production forecasting	In production
Paraffin risk detection in the Eagle Ford An Eagle Ford operations engineer, who received a 2023 SPIRIT Award for Innovation, built a process that runs gas composition data through a machine learning system and a surface detection algorithm to head off paraffin plugging in pads and gathering lines (Mar 2023).	Lower 48 production	In production
Equipment optimization and machine life ConocoPhillips applies AI and machine learning to make predictions and take prescriptive actions within automation workflows, for example to optimize equipment and extend machine life.	Operations, company-wide	In production
Software bots and intelligent document capture ConocoPhillips automates rules-based, repetitive processes with robotic process automation, intelligent optical character recognition, process mining and digital assistants, which it groups under automation rather than AI.	Business processes	In production
Machine learning on fiber-optic data ConocoPhillips geophysicists list a pending patent on machine-learning-based fracture-hit detection from low-frequency fiber-optic signals and were testing acoustic signals with machine learning as virtual multiphase flow meters for production optimization (Oct 2021).	Geophysics	Pilot
Rod-pump optimization with machine learning ConocoPhillips' rod-pump Internet of Things program set out to collect higher-resolution data from about 2,700 rod pumps so machine learning could tune them, an idea that began as a reinforcement learning pitch at a 2018 internal symposium; the program was in its data-analysis phase in Jan 2021.	Artificial lift	Pilot

Adoption

ConocoPhillips has spread AI through engineering, operations and commercial teams rather than through a tool for every employee: an advanced analytics workflow for Eagle Ford drilling data in 2015, a company effort to become data-driven from 2016, internal symposiums that seeded machine learning projects in 2018, production models in drilling from 2023, and by Aug 2025 AI in gas lift, gas market forecasting and decline curves, built in product teams owned by business experts. ConocoPhillips trains staff through a citizen developer program, data analytics training and rotation programs, and its 2027 Digital & IT internship lists artificial intelligence among its disciplines. ConocoPhillips has not disclosed an employee AI assistant, a count of AI users or how often staff use AI.

By the numbers

Gas-lift wells AI checks: Every well, daily; Using existing digital telemetry; one engineer could check about a dozen a day before (Pragati Mathur, Aug 2025)

AI companies vetted by the digital team: 100; 25 picked for two days of sessions on how their products could help (Pragati Mathur, Aug 2025)

Current reported return on AI: None; The last AI-credited figure is $3M+ of Eagle Ford drilling savings, reported Aug 2023

Employees: ~9,900; Dec 31, 2025, in 14 countries, down from ~11,800 a year earlier (2025 Form 10-K)

Rollout, first pilot to today

2015
ConocoPhillips built its first advanced analytics workflow for drilling and completions data in the Eagle Ford, later copied across nine assets.
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2016
ConocoPhillips began a multi-year effort to turn itself into a data-driven company.
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2018
ConocoPhillips' internal Analytics & Innovation Symposium produced the ideas behind its machine learning drilling project and a reinforcement learning pitch for rod-pump optimization.
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Apr 2019
ConocoPhillips gave nearly $3 million to data science programs at Oklahoma State University, the University of Houston, the University of Oklahoma and the University of Texas.
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2020
A ConocoPhillips Gulf Coast and Rockies Wells team started a multi-phase machine learning project in the Eagle Ford to predict drilling-motor failures and speed up drilling.
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Mar 2021
ConocoPhillips' Global Wells merged business-unit data warehouses into a central Global Wells Data Warehouse of about one billion rows, with an IT analytics center of excellence.
ConocoPhillips spiritnow
Mar 2022
ConocoPhillips agreed to move its reservoir modeling, data and workflows to SLB's cloud-based DELFI platform, and SLB said it would help integrate cloud-based digital solutions and AI into ConocoPhillips' reservoir engineering.
JPT
Jun 2023
ConocoPhillips' Global Digital Twin program, pioneered in Norway and adopted in Alaska and Australia, won a 2023 CIO 100 award.
ConocoPhillips spiritnow
Aug 2023
ConocoPhillips reported that machine learning had cut premature drilling-motor failures by 65% in Eagle Ford tests and that the team planned to move its models to real-time data and the cloud.
ConocoPhillips spiritnow
May 2025
ConocoPhillips Canada rolled out digital twins at Surmont and Montney after Norway and Australia, with full build-out of the main Canadian facilities expected by the end of 2026.
ConocoPhillips spiritnow
Aug 2025
Pragati Mathur said ConocoPhillips' AI now checks every gas-lift well on digital telemetry daily, and described a drilling-motor failure model, natural gas supply and demand forecasting and decline-curve forecasting in use.
CIO.com
Mar 2026
Nick Olds said AI-driven gas-lift optimization is running on ConocoPhillips' Lower 48 wells.
ConocoPhillips spiritnow
May 2026
Ryan Lance told stockholders that ConocoPhillips is embedding AI into core business processes under an enterprise framework on governance, security and responsible use.
2026 annual meeting transcript
Sep 2026
CFO Konnie Haynes-Welsh took on oversight of ConocoPhillips' digital technology and transformation as SVP Digital and Transformation.
ConocoPhillips spiritnow

Economics & controls

Spend and ROI

Technology and AI spending

ConocoPhillips does not disclose a technology, digital or AI budget, or what it spends on models, compute or AI staff. ConocoPhillips expensed $78 million on research and development in 2025 and $81 million in each of 2024 and 2023, according to its 2025 Form 10-K, where its technology programs focus on unconventional reservoirs, recovery from legacy fields, exploration, heavy oil and emissions.

Reported ROI

ConocoPhillips reports no current return on AI. The last AI-credited figures on its own site are more than $3 million of Eagle Ford drilling savings, about $30,000 per well, from its machine learning drilling project (Aug 2023), and more than 125,000 barrels of oil equivalent a year saved by a machine learning paraffin process (Mar 2023). Chief Digital & Information Officer Pragati Mathur said in Aug 2025 that AI decline-curve forecasting had brought significant cost savings and that AI gas-lift checks had lifted more hydrocarbons, without a figure for either. ConocoPhillips said in Mar 2021 that its drilling analytics model, copied across nine assets, had saved hundreds of millions of dollars, but it describes that work as data analytics, not AI.

Cost program and headcount

ConocoPhillips announced more than $1 billion of cost reduction and margin enhancement opportunities in Aug 2025, to be reached on a run-rate basis by the end of 2026, and Ryan Lance said about 80% sits in G&A, lease operating, and transport and processing costs, citing workforce centralization, the company's larger scale and technologies it is deploying, including a new company-wide ERP system. ConocoPhillips said in Sep 2025 that it planned to cut 20% to 25% of its global workforce, employees and contractors, in a restructuring Boston Consulting Group advised on, and Lance cited rising costs per barrel, with no mention of AI (Reuters). ConocoPhillips booked $286 million of severance in 2025 and had about 9,900 employees at the end of 2025, down from about 11,800 a year earlier; the company has credited AI with no part of either.

Productivity markers

ConocoPhillips credits its roughly 15% drilling and completions efficiency gain in 2025 to new technologies and practices such as automated drilling, longer laterals, simultaneous fracturing and continuous pumping, without naming AI (Nick Olds, Mar 2026). ConocoPhillips says employees save over 100,000 hours of processing a year with automation such as robotic process automation, a figure it gives without a date or a cost value and does not attribute to AI.

Governance and risk

Enterprise AI framework

Ryan Lance said on May 12, 2026 that all of ConocoPhillips' AI applications are guided by an enterprise framework on governance, security and responsible use. ConocoPhillips has not published the framework, who owns it or how it reviews AI models.

IT and OT security

ConocoPhillips runs an IT/OT Security Program that covers enterprise IT and operational technology architecture, a Cybersecurity Operation Center, data privacy and governance, and supply chain security, and consults frameworks such as the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, according to its 2025 Form 10-K. ConocoPhillips' CISO leads the IT/OT Security Team and reports to the Chief Digital & Information Officer, and workers must complete information security training every year.

Disclosed AI risk

ConocoPhillips' 2025 Form 10-K lists the growing sophistication of generative AI as a risk that may expand cybercriminals' capabilities in ways it cannot predict, and notes exposure where company data is collected, hosted or processed by third-party cloud and service providers. ConocoPhillips' third-party risk management assesses providers by their access to its network, data and systems.

Board oversight

ConocoPhillips' Audit and Finance Committee oversees information systems and cybersecurity and hears cybersecurity reports several times a year, and the full board receives one annually. ConocoPhillips' 2026 proxy statement lists technology expertise as a board skill because the company increasingly uses its global data to monitor and optimize operations, and cites director Sharmila Mulligan's experience in artificial intelligence. Pragati Mathur said in Aug 2025 that her team had held a technology showcase for the board, which asked for a repeat with new solutions.

Recent signals

Sep 8, 2026
ConocoPhillips introduced Andy O'Brien's leadership team, in which CFO Konnie Haynes-Welsh, also SVP Digital and Transformation, oversees finance, digital technology and transformation.
ConocoPhillips spiritnow
Aug 6, 2026
ConocoPhillips named CFO Andy O'Brien to succeed Ryan Lance as CEO and Konnie Haynes-Welsh as CFO, effective Sep 1, 2026, with Lance becoming executive chair.
ConocoPhillips news release
Aug 6, 2026
Ryan Lance said on ConocoPhillips' Q2 2026 call, his last as CEO, that the company will benefit from what he called the coming AI revolution, in remarks on the importance of energy security.
Q2 2026 earnings call transcript
Jul 28, 2026
ASUG scheduled an online session in which Roger Bhalla, listed as a department head at ConocoPhillips, and an SAP adviser were to present ConocoPhillips' approach to enterprise AI: setting up governance, ranking high-value use cases and a roadmap for responsible adoption.
ASUG event listing
May 12, 2026
Ryan Lance told ConocoPhillips' annual meeting that AI is an increasingly important enabler being embedded in core processes, with every application under an enterprise framework on governance, security and responsible use.
2026 annual meeting transcript
May 11, 2026
JPT published a summary of an SPE executive breakfast on returns from AI, held Mar 26, 2026, at which ConocoPhillips' Director of Data Science and AI, Bo Hu, led the round on metrics; the summary attributes no figures to ConocoPhillips.
JPT
May 5, 2026
Pragati Mathur, ConocoPhillips' Chief Digital & Information Officer, was listed as a panelist on AI in industrial operations at the Metis Strategy Summit.
Metis Strategy
Mar 30, 2026
ConocoPhillips' 2026 proxy statement cited director Sharmila Mulligan's experience in artificial intelligence, cloud computing and data analytics, and said the company increasingly uses its global data to monitor and optimize operations.
2026 proxy statement
Mar 24, 2026
Nick Olds said AI-driven gas-lift optimization is improving reliability and cutting site visits on ConocoPhillips' Lower 48 wells, and that a Permian trial used real-time fiber-optic data to adjust fracturing equipment automatically.
ConocoPhillips spiritnow
Feb 17, 2026
ConocoPhillips' 2025 Form 10-K reported about 9,900 employees, down from about 11,800, $286 million of restructuring severance, a Chief Digital & Information Officer reporting to Kirk Johnson, and generative AI as a cyber risk.
2025 Form 10-K

Quick answers

How does ConocoPhillips deploy AI?: ConocoPhillips deploys AI inside its oil and gas operations: AI checks gas-lift wells daily and machine learning predicts drilling-motor failures in its Lower 48 fields, and models forecast gas supply and demand and well decline. Ryan Lance, then CEO, said in May 2026 that AI is being embedded in core processes under an enterprise governance framework. Chief Digital & Information Officer Pragati Mathur's team builds the uses with business product teams; ConocoPhillips has disclosed no current return it credits to AI, AI user count, employee AI assistant or model provider.
What does ConocoPhillips use AI for?: ConocoPhillips has named a small set of AI and machine learning uses in production, all in operations and commercial work: AI checks of gas-lift wells (Aug 2025 and Mar 2026), a drilling-motor failure model and drilling-parameter models (2023 to 2025), natural gas supply and demand forecasting and decline-curve forecasting (Aug 2025), paraffin risk detection in the Eagle Ford (2023) and equipment optimization, after earlier pilots on rod pumps and fiber-optic data. ConocoPhillips has published no count of AI use cases and no current return for any of them: Pragati Mathur called the decline-curve savings significant in Aug 2025 without a figure, the last AI-credited figure, more than $3 million of Eagle Ford drilling savings, dates from Aug 2023, and ConocoPhillips reports no firm-level return on AI.
Who leads AI at ConocoPhillips?: AI at ConocoPhillips is led by Konnie Haynes-Welsh (Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President, Digital and Transformation); Pragati Mathur (Chief Digital & Information Officer); Bo Hu (Director of Data Science and AI). Ownership of AI on the org chart: CFO and SVP Digital and Transformation Konnie Haynes-Welsh (since Sep 2026).
What AI platform does ConocoPhillips use?: ConocoPhillips has named no enterprise AI platform: its AI runs as models inside operational and commercial workflows, built by product teams that pair business experts with Chief Digital & Information Officer Pragati Mathur's staff, and by a data science and AI group led by Bo Hu.
Which AI models does ConocoPhillips use?: ConocoPhillips has named no model provider or generative AI assistant; the models it describes predict drilling-motor failures, check gas-lift wells with a physics-based calculation and forecast gas markets and well decline, and Pragati Mathur said in Aug 2025 that her team had vetted 100 AI companies.
How many ConocoPhillips employees use AI?: ConocoPhillips has not said how many of its about 9,900 employees use AI; its named AI uses sit with drilling, production, reservoir and commercial teams, and staff learn through a citizen developer program and data analytics training.
How far has AI spread at ConocoPhillips?: ConocoPhillips has reported no current business return it credits to AI: Pragati Mathur called the decline-curve savings significant in Aug 2025 and Nick Olds said in Mar 2026 that AI gas-lift checks cut site visits, both without a figure; its earnings calls of Aug 2025, Nov 2025, Feb 2026 and Aug 2026 give no AI figure; its more than $1 billion cost program is not credited to AI; and the AI-credited figures on record, more than $3 million of Eagle Ford drilling savings (Aug 2023) and a paraffin process saving over 125,000 barrels of oil equivalent a year (Mar 2023), are more than three years old. ConocoPhillips has not reported a company-wide AI rollout with a user count either: it names no employee AI assistant and has not said how many of its about 9,900 employees use AI, though Ryan Lance said in May 2026 that AI is being embedded in core business processes and CFO Konnie Haynes-Welsh has overseen digital technology since Sep 2026. ConocoPhillips is therefore at Experimenting, despite AI in production in its fields; one current return it credits to AI, such as a figure for the gas-lift checks, or a stated count of employees using AI tools with a named owner would move it to Piloting.

Open questions

Does ConocoPhillips' Chief Digital & Information Officer, Pragati Mathur, now report to Konnie Haynes-Welsh, and where does Bo Hu's data science and AI group sit?
Does ConocoPhillips give employees a sanctioned generative AI assistant or coding assistant, how many of its employees use AI tools, and which model providers sit behind them?
Which cloud providers host ConocoPhillips' data and AI models beyond SLB's DELFI, and do any models run in its own data centers or at the well site?
What business return do ConocoPhillips' deployed AI uses deliver now, such as the extra hydrocarbons from AI gas-lift checks, the decline-curve savings Pragati Mathur called significant, the drilling-motor failure model and natural gas forecasting?
Which SAP AI tools, if any, does ConocoPhillips use, given its Jul 2026 ASUG session on enterprise AI with SAP?
How many AI use cases does ConocoPhillips run in production, and how many people work in AI and data science roles?
What does ConocoPhillips' enterprise framework on governance, security and responsible use of AI require, and who enforces it?
Did AI or automation contribute to ConocoPhillips' 2025 restructuring or its more than $1 billion cost and margin program?
Will Andy O'Brien, who oversaw technology as SVP Strategy, Commercial, Sustainability and Technology in 2024 and 2025, set AI targets as CEO, starting with the Q3 2026 call on Nov 5, 2026?

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Data confidence

Confirmed: Stated in a primary or reputable public source.
Estimated: Derived or approximated from public reporting.
Unconfirmed: Reported, but not yet corroborated.

ConocoPhillips profile · Enterprise AI diffusion report by Imagine · facts checked against their sources on Nov 1, 2026

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