Safety and Environmental Awards The Utah Petroleum Association is proud to announce our inaugural Safety and Environmental Awards, with winners to be revealed at the 2022 Annual Meeting. We know there is so much good work going on, quietly, under the radar that does not seek recognition but rather happens because it’s the right thing to do. We’re pleased to showcase three awards and the nominees in each category. Here is a brief description of the nominees in each of the three categories: Safety Action Award This is awarded to a person, project, or team that has impacted the likelihood or potential of preventing an accident or incident, or an action that results in improved safety results or processes and was reviewed by a panel of five judges made up of upstream and downstream HSE professionals. Here are the nominees: • Berry Petroleum’s Utah Operations Team for their work on the revised Winter Tire Program. In early 2020, Berry’s Chief Operations Officer challenged Berry’s Health and Safety Team to reduce Berry’s overall rate of motor vehicle accidents. Thanks to a thorough review of the team’s vehicle-related incident data, in late 2020, all field vehicles were fitted with studded snow tires from October to April, which resulted in a 75% reduction in Vehicle Incident Rates over 11 months with an additional benefit of $36,000 in cost savings. • Chevron’s IsoAlky project, which is the product of more than 20 years of research. Chevron chose its Salt Lake Refinery to test the concept with a 10 barrel-per-day pilot plant commissioned in 2009. The scaled facility is the largest capital project the refinery has ever undertaken. This SLC homegrown innovation has allowed the Chevron Salt Lake Refinery to take hydrofluoric acid out of plant operations and to prove this first-of-its-kind technology to the refining industry globally. • Finley and Uinta Wax for their donation to the Uintah Fire District. The Avalon Fire Department has needed a pumper truck capable of dispensing foam and delivering large volumes of water to respond to fires within their response area. Additionally, they donated 10, 4-gas monitors to the Roosevelt, Avalon, and Vernal fire departments. These 4-gas monitors will provide significant protection to the firefighters from Low Explosive Limit (LEL) gases, H2S gas, carbon dioxide, and low oxygen environments. Additionally, six defibrillation units (AED) were donated to Neola Continued on page 20 18 UPDATE
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