24-Lyndal Cissell & Tracee Bentley-Powering the Future of the Permian: Inside SLB's Partnership with PSP

I love that you're focusing on prevention because that is so key with medicine, with health.

And it's also, of course, one of the initiatives of PSP is medical and medicine.

What is one of your favorite initiatives that PSP has done or is in the process of doing?

So I'm going to start with an old one that was really important to me because it struck me.

We did the access and we outfitted, I think, and Tracy, you can certainly correct my numbers, but around 22 different counties, we provided them with portable Jaws of Life and some emergency response kits, flares, pylons, etc., And it was really eye-opening that the emergency services that we in our communities assume are there if there's a car accident on these remote roads or going through areas, that these existed.

It was very surprising to me to think that my son or my employees could be driving and have an incident and that the emergency services wouldn't have JAWS alive.

So I know that the PSP and the community, we've outfitted all of them.

This is some years back.

We've certainly advanced to thinking bigger in moonshots.

You know, the Beacon Center, I think, is the next one in the Behavioral Health Center.

It's just so profound, the investment and the advanced thinking that everybody in the team and the university associations, getting nurses, getting people with those skill sets to be able to deliver that, and then building and seeing it open, I think, is...

It was a time for me because I have the connection with the autism and my son, and then being in the room and understanding that we were going to get this done.

These were my people.

Midland and PSP were my people.

Going back to, you're right, when we distributed the safety equipment to our first responders, I think it was eye-opening for all of us because when you get into the more rural parts of the Permian, those are mostly all volunteer first responders.

So when they get a call, they have to leave their job, get in the ambulance or the fire truck and get to the scene, and then not to have the equipment available.

is I mean that's a lot of people don't even think that that could be an issue but out here because we're so big and we're so vast and so rural and heavily dependent on volunteers when it came to our attention like Lyndall said we we were shocked and we said well we can do something about that right now.

Yeah, it was, you know, the amazing things on the training, the CDL training, the drivers, and, you know, important trades, programs.

Absolutely, this is something that our industry needs and the community needs.

But, you know, some of the emergency components, the health components, investing in the community from a health access standpoint and educating, and then the access to the emergency.

I was...

It was really...

It was a level setting for me of understanding of where we were starting from.