my show, but when i came back two years ago, i led the ffort we had to stop the flaring in the permian basinlaring over 1 bcf a day. today we got it down to about 200 million a day. it's down to mostly private companies. we need to get the private companies to do what the publics are doing, so less than 1% the break-even price has been lowered significantly. that's our breaking in price when you add the base dividend, with two accretive acquisitions, we've now doubled the size of the company, and now we're the largest producer in texas and the largest producer in the permian basin. >> let's talk about the focus on return pioneer -- which was always a great company, but you did a lot of drilling. now you're still doing a lot of drilling, but you're far more considerate about how much you drill versus how much you return is this a reaction that a lot of companies used to spend far more than they had and therefore they went broke >> exactly >> we've had always had a great balance sheet. that's the most important in the oil and gas industry it's always had a great balance sheet. we did go out to

robertson, co-founder of franklin mountain energy, a private oil and gas company operating in the permian basin greek and liberty oil field services welcome. important topic. we've seen data and research showing that more diverse boards increase financial performance and definitely help with bringing diversity of thought around the table what's your experience as to why this issue of gender representation is so important >> thank you first for having me and it's a big issue it's a real opportunity for us as women professionals to recognize that celebrating tomorrow is celebrating not just the major milestones that have been hit so far, bringing parity to all areas of our life but there's a lot -- a long way to go you point out the russell 3000 board gender parity won't be achieved until, what, eight years from now and that's just a lot of time for corporate boardrooms to catch up there's not a lack of women who are talented and well suited to serve on corporate boards and represent shareholders and assist skitive teams in executing a strategy it's really a question of corporate boards and their

angelo, good fellow air force base and the permian basin. it will connect at midland-odessa which goes westward and leads to el paso and fort bliss. this will complete the linkage between six military facilities across three states, which is critical for economic development and national security. i'd like to add, this amendment has the support of the department of transportations in texas, in louisiana, in mississippi, in alabama, and in a georgia, as well as untold numbers of local leaders and coalitions of businesses and local governments. so again i want to thank my senator -- my colleague, senator warnock, for leading this bipartisan amendment with me. mr. warnock: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from georgia. mr. warnock: i am grateful for the opportunity to partner with bligh colleague from texas -- with my colleague from texas on this infrastructure development, and i ask for the support of all of my colleagues. the presiding officer: the senator from west virginia. mrs. capito: i'd leak -- i'd like to address the s