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Beyond business / How Global Aviation helps cancer patients access vital care. spiritnow | Through a partnership with the Corporate Angel Network, open Air Shuttle seats help people reach treatment July 21, 2026 By Gus Morgan The ConocoPhillips Global Aviation team - a mix of pilots, flight attendants, maintenance technicians, operations personnel and support staff - keeps company employees, contractors and cargo moving safely and efficiently across Alaska, the Lower 48 and international destinations. One of the aircraft the team operates is the Air Shuttle, a corporate jet designed for regional business travel. The team uses it to regularly transport workers between Houston and Midland, Texas; Carlsbad, New Mexico; Williston, North Dakota; and Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Most days, the Air Shuttle is filled with ConocoPhillips employees heading to and from the company's various work locations. But when space permits, some of those seats are filled by cancer patients and their caregivers, traveling to Houston for care at world-class facilities such as MD Anderson Cancer Center. Those trips are made possible through a long-standing collaboration with the Corporate Angel Network (CAN), a nonprofit organization that arranges free flights for cancer patients traveling to and from treatment centers using empty seats on corporate aircraft. Whether a patient is traveling for surgery, a clinical trial or a second opinion, CAN aims to reduce a patient's physical, emotional and financial stress by providing seats on a corporate flight. For more than 40 years, ConocoPhillips and its predecessor companies - Conoco and Phillips Petroleum - have partnered with CAN, turning unused Air Shuttle capacity into a lifeline for people facing cancer. Since joining the program in 1983, the company has helped more than 6,000 cancer patients reach needed medical care and treatment appointments. How the Corporate Angel Network helps cancer patients. * Opens doors to specialized treatment that may not be available close to home * Makes it possible to participate in clinical trials that could expand treatment options and advance medical research * Lowers health risks by avoiding crowded commercial terminals and flights, which can be especially important for people with compromised immune systems * Reduces the financial burden of repeated trips for treatment * Allows family members or caregivers to travel alongside patients * Provides support without financial qualification requirements Since its founding in 1981, CAN has arranged more than 70,000 patient flights with the help of more than 500 participating corporations. Participation is open to cancer patients and to bone marrow and stem cell donors and recipients who have a scheduled medical appointment. Eligibility is not based on financial need, and patients may travel as often as their treatment requires. "There are just so many benefits," said CAN Patient Services Manager Kelly Scanlon, adding that patients often get emotional when they learn CAN has secured a flight for them. "It's like a weight has been lifted off their shoulders." For cancer patients with limited means, CAN flights can be the difference between getting access to specialized care options and settling for more limited care choices. That impact is why CAN's partnership with ConocoPhillips matters so much to patients - and why it continues to earn recognition. CAN recently presented the Global Aviation team with its 2026 Corporate Angel Award, honoring ConocoPhillips' exceptional support for CAN's mission to help cancer patients get timely access to medical appointments and treatment options. A culture of community service. The Global Aviation team takes immense pride in its community-focused work with CAN, said Global Aviation Manager Keith Nickles. "Service is engrained in everything we do," he said, adding that on a normal business day, the focus is on ensuring passengers get where they need to be safely and efficiently. "When we have a CAN patient onboard, it's an opportunity to bring that same care and attention to a flight that carries a different kind of importance. It's a visible and meaningful way to demonstrate what the company stands for in the communities where we live and work." For the crews who operate the Air Shuttle routes, Nickles said the mission often becomes deeply personal. "Over the years, we've established relationships with every one of our CAN passengers, without exception," Nickles said. "Our flight crews get very close to them, and we celebrate their milestones in their journeys, and we've also mourned their losses. It's difficult when we lose one of our CAN patients. Our team notices that." Global Aviation employee Matt Runty reflected on the connections he forged with CAN patients during his time with the Air Shuttle program. Now Regulatory and Publications Officer for Global Aviation - Alaska, Runty joined ConocoPhillips in 2014 as an Air Shuttle captain based in Bartlesville. He later moved into flight-operations leadership, serving as assistant chief pilot and director of operations from 2018 to 2021 before joining the Alaska Q400 operation. Runty said few moments were more gratifying than hearing a CAN passenger say they were finishing treatment and boarding the Air Shuttle for the last time. At other times, he said, it was heartbreaking to learn that a familiar face had become too ill to travel or had lost their battle with cancer. On occasion, Runty also met ConocoPhillips employees and spouses who weren't traveling for work, but for cancer care via the CAN program. "This brought home the idea that cancer touches the lives of just about everyone in one way or another," he said, "and once again reinforced the importance of the service we are able to provide through the Corporate Angel Network." Runty said the Air Shuttle flights help remove one more barrier for patients and families trying to reach critical care. "While this may be one of the hardest times in a person's life," he said, "we can make it just a little bit easier on them, and I like to think that it removes one barrier to pursuing the care their doctors recommend."

Shared success / ConocoPhillips and China mark 45 years of energy partnership. spiritnow | Decades of collaboration continue to drive growth and development across the country June 11, 2026 Reflecting a spirit of collaboration and shared energy development, ConocoPhillips China President Markel Hübinette accepted the prestigious 2025 Chinese Government Friendship Award in September for significant contributions to China's economic and social development. Presented at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, the honor helps set the stage for ConocoPhillips' landmark 2026 milestone: commemorating 45 years of continuous partnership, innovation and progress in China. "Since our involvement in China began in the early 1980s, we have played a meaningful role in China's modern energy story, helping to unlock offshore potential and strengthen energy supply," Hübinette said. "From our collaboration in exploration and production with China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), to liquefied natural gas (LNG), and through our ongoing support of local communities, we are proud to contribute to a more efficient and sustainable energy industry in China, while improving the lives of local people." How it started: ConocoPhillips' history in China. ConocoPhillips arrived in China in 1981, in the early era of Reform and Opening-up policies designed to increase foreign investment and trade. At that time, Phillips Petroleum Company (Phillips), a predecessor of ConocoPhillips, was invited to explore the Pearl River Mouth Basin offshore Guangdong province. There, the company discovered the Xijiang Oilfield, which marked one of the first offshore oil discoveries by a foreign operator and laid the groundwork for long-standing collaboration with Chinese partners that has been instrumental in shaping the country's offshore oil and gas industry. In 1999, Phillips and CNOOC reached a significant milestone with the discovery of the Penglai Oilfield in the Bohai Sea. Since then, the two companies have jointly built 18 offshore platforms and a 300,000-ton floating production, storage and offloading vessel. As the largest offshore oilfield in China, Penglai's success stands as testament to the operational excellence and industry-leading vision of this mutually beneficial partnership. Today, Penglai's cumulative crude oil production exceeds 550 million barrels - enough to power Beijing for roughly a year and a half - underscoring its vital role in supporting China's energy supply. ConocoPhillips has also played a pioneering role in broadening the Asia Pacific LNG market, delivering China's first U.S. LNG shipment from Alaska to Shanghai in 2011. Through global joint venture projects, ConocoPhillips and its partners, including Sinopec and CNOOC, supply nearly 10 million tons of LNG per year to China under long-term contracts and spot cargo, accounting for one-seventh of China's total annual LNG imports in 2024. Since China began importing LNG in 2006, ConocoPhillips has delivered cargo to all the country's major LNG-receiving terminals, underscoring the company's commitment to supporting China's sustainable energy goals. Leading with heart in communities. ConocoPhillips' partnership with China goes far beyond business. Over nearly three decades, ConocoPhillips China has contributed more than 12 million USD to address key challenges affecting people's lives across healthcare, education, environmental protection and disaster relief. "Our success as a company is deeply intertwined with the well-being of the communities we operate in," Hübinette said. In 2008, ConocoPhillips China partnered with TEDA International Cardiovascular Hospital in Tianjin to launch the "Heart for Heart" program. The program addresses congenital heart disease, a leading cause of death among newborn babies in China, by addressing structural disparities in medical resources between urban and rural areas through free mobile screening and heart surgeries. The partnership has provided life-saving surgeries for more than 774 children across 16 provinces and trained more than 2,000 medical personnel. ConocoPhillips China is also a key supporter of quality education and the cultivation of the next generation of industry leaders. In this spirit, ConocoPhillips China has worked with leading Chinese petroleum universities to support promising students as they pursue research studies ranging from oil and gas technology to low carbon development and emission reduction solutions. ConocoPhillips' future in China. As ConocoPhillips marks 45 years in China, its journey highlights the strength of long-standing local partnerships built on mutual benefit and support. "We are extremely proud to have been a significant actor in China's energy journey," Hübinette said. "Building on the success of Penglai, ConocoPhillips is committed to deepening collaboration with Chinese partners by exploring potential upstream exploration and production opportunities, expanding LNG supply as a cleaner transition fuel and advancing low-carbon energy solutions to support China's energy security and dual carbon goals. Working together, we can add value to ConocoPhillips' global portfolio while advancing China's energy supply and security and move forward on our shared pathway to lower emissions and global stability."