I know the new LT says safety is still our number one goal but I’ve been hearing our accident rate is trending up. Scary!!!
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Agree with “just another serf” inexperienced design teams. What I’ve seen is consultants and those that know nothing about the industry making big decisions. Those decisions are potentially dangerous.
This is a dramatization of the Texas City Refinery explosion that left 16 workers vaporized.
https://youtu.be/goSEyGNfiPM
Texas City was down for 2 years and cost $16 billion to bring it back up. A young women lost both parents that day. BP offered the young woman $2 million as compensation. She sued for more and won $20 million.
BP sold Texas City Refinery to Marathon Oil for $4 billion.
I am familiar with some of the design team leads and members. The ones I know are from operations with many years of experience. Where do you see inexperienced people in charge of a design team? Also if it’s a concern speak up, submit it to open talk. We are expected to stop unsafe work at any time - it’s your responsibility to speak up.
I am seriously starting to worry about this. A lot of the people they have leading the design teams are people that have no clue about our industry and the daily risks that are involved. I feel like people are afraid to speak up because Kommissar Looney might execute them or send them off for reeducation in wokeness.
Agree lots of thumbs being twiddled all over, especially in Houston and Sunbury, but considerable work, dangerous work, still occurring to maintain wells in Permian shale and East Texas, GOM and ROW. We still do that you know, for the time being anyway. And now being done on the cheap with little to no $$ and little to none true experience. The concerns are real.
There is little work to do so how are accidents occurring. Are people tripping at home with computer cords? How many paper cuts?
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You rise to the point of incompetence. BP is about networking and knowing people.
Yes, that’s what astounds me - so many people associated with and responsible for major safety lapses are retained and promoted to high levels in the company. Is that just a thing here at bp, or does it happen everywhere?
Good point Boomah. But in this day and time one would think it more difficult to coverup fatalities like just happened in Permian Basin. Guess not tho. Our safety track record is beyond terrible. And many of the same leaders responsible for these Permian deaths and the loss of life at Texas City, Macondo and multiple other fatalities still have Bp jobs and probably still will after this reorg.
If we can invent fictional production we can cover up a few injuries. Just grab a shovel and follow me...we can bury a few here on the Platte River and blame the Denver riots. Fertilizing is environmentally sound
Well said. Also depends on the reporting business unit group. Safety folks in each group ultimately “decide” whether or not an incident/injury is reportable. These different groups treat contractor incidents differently, e.g. if contractors driving to or from a BP site have an accident and fatalities are suffered, like what recently happened in the Permian, then safety/legal folks for that business unit may take the position that the contractors were not officially on duty for BP while a different business unit may decide the opposite. Lots of gray across company in this area. Gets dicey too if the contractors had to drive somewhere or transport something for a BP job during the work day. And agree the incident numbers are climbing. As typical for BP we sadly may see another catastrophe sooner rather than later.
Depends on where contractor fatalities occur, I.e. bp physical sites or activities.
The verbalization of the safety priority mantra will continue in public, even while the cost prioritized decisions are made in private. Look for the ‘what we say versus what we do’ pendulum to swing too far one way once again.
Like all things, it’s not about what you say it’s about what you do BP. Looking back, what you’ve done is pretty dire.
Yeah it is bad. Everyone is too distracted with the re-org and MyProfiles. They should have done the re-org only after they announced the strategy (i.e. last Tuesday). Now we are just waiting for the next process safety incident.
Do contractor fatalities count in our reporting numbers? Because