A year of collaboration between Saudi Aramco, Huawei, and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) has resulted in the establishment of the Huawei Oil and Gas Joint Innovation Center at Dhahran Techno Valley (DTV). The center was inaugurated recently in the presence of Amin H. Nasser, president and CEO of Saudi Aramco; Abdulaziz A. Al Abdulkarim, then-vice president of Saudi Aramco’s Information Technology; HE Dr. Khaled S. Al-Sultan, Rector of KFUPM; Yan Lida, president of Huawei's Enterprise Business Group; and Dr. Martin Jischke, chairman of the International Advisory Board and president emeritus at Purdue University. Attendees also included other senior executives and professionals from Saudi Aramco, KFUPM, and partner companies such as SAP, Honeywell, and Yokogawa. Al-Sultan noted that the inauguration of the center comes at a critical time: “As everyone knows, over the coming decades, the world will continue to rely heavily on large-scale supplies of oil and gas. As the industry moves on to more and more difficult oil and gas deposits, the pace of technological progress will need to accelerate significantly if past production trends are to be maintained”, he said. Facing such challenges require advanced information, data processing, and computational systems that preserve the geological, technical, and economic parameters that can facilitate the purposes of performance analysis and minimize risks in the execution of petroleum exploration and production projects. The mission of the center was highlighted by Huawei’s Lida, who said that “by jointly working with the world's leading company, Saudi Aramco, and top university, KFUPM, and other partners, the Joint Innovation Center is committed to providing information and communication technologies for the oil and gas industry based on Huawei technologies and our global partners' expertise to meet customer requirements." Al Abdulkarim said he appreciated the achievement and expressed the high expectations of the center. “This innovation center we are opening today will join 31 other centers that Huawei has across the world, but this differs in its focus toward delivering information and communications technology solutions for the oil and gas industry. I believe that this center is strategically positioned to achieve that goal, here in Dhahran Techno Valley,” he said. The centre will be a fertile environment for the exchange of technology and business ideas, crossing diverse industrial divides, to deliver solutions that address current and future challenges. With the addition of Huawei, a new dimension is being added to further diversify the expertise available in DTV.