Case Study: Helmerich & Payne achieves rapid well‑performance reporting and actionable insights with Microsoft Power BI

H&P maximizes drilling performance by connecting employees across locations over Microsoft Teams

Helmerich & Payne is a global oil-and-gas drilling company that needed to keep rigs operating at peak performance by connecting hundreds of field crews and thousands of office staff, sharing knowledge, and ensuring everyone worked from current data. To solve this, the company adopted Microsoft cloud services—Office 365 and Microsoft Teams for collaboration—and introduced analytics with Microsoft Power BI to make performance data accessible and actionable.

Using Microsoft Teams H&P created more than 2,000 channels for real-time collaboration and gave 6,000 firstline workers Office 365 F1 access to company email and intranet resources, while Microsoft Power BI enabled the performance engineering team to replace a year-long Tableau build in one week and produce ad hoc reports in about 30 minutes instead of hours or days. These changes sped decision-making, widened cross-functional expertise, and let H&P deliver custom customer reports faster—demonstrating measurable gains in responsiveness and operational coordination.

Helmerich & Payne

Cheryl Bartel

Manager of Platform Systems