When our of our execs states that he’s “not used to working for a company with this many near misses and events”, it really is a weird statement.
First, his position is one of influencing, not “working for”. You have the power to fix the system. Second, does anyone think the constant worrying about their jobs in the middle of a pandemic has anything to do with it? He also had the power to deal with this.
Well it’s too late now, our entire safety team and leadership is Husky so Alex has made his choice and he has to deal with the outcome. It’s all on him and that’s as it should be, he’s the CEO. He gets paid to make these choices so away we go and let’s see what happens.
I for one cannot believe Cenovus management, as we are the only company in the entire oil patch that acquires other companies and then turn around and let them take us over. It’s an embarrassment. CNRL just laughs at us all.
HSE safety record is scary abysmal! I’m actually surprised it wasn’t a deal k–ler! This will be like a boat anchor to bonuses going forward as you can’t fix the safety culture, or lack thereof overnight!
May God help you all if CVE is in charge. I can’t even imagine how many accidents are waiting to happen. Good luck.
CVE personel in here compares pears with apples. The operations of Husky were significantly more complex than the operations of Cenovus. Cenovus does NOT have ANY experience either downstream or offshore. Having bad stats is way better than having good stats that do not prevent fatalities from happening (like the one at CL in Feb 2018)... The reason why the HSE team is there is precisely because they came to help Husky after all the major incidents happened. The lack of operational checks and balances (cowboy "get it done" attitude) and lack of HSE independence (still prevalent at CVE) is what caused at least 2 of the 3 Husky major incidents. With some few unfortunate exceptions, the current HSE leadership was not event working at Husky when the incidents happened.
CEOs are employees too. That's how corporations work.
Lets see what occured in the last few years:
It said the floating production, storage and off-loading vessel with 84 people and 340,000 barrels of crude onboard failed to follow protocol and sail away when an iceberg entered its 0.25-nautical-mile ice exclusion area, adding personnel at one point were instructed to muster and 'brace for impact.'
That's only what was reported .
RP got a bonus every year and was rewarded with millions when the merger was announced.
That's an incredible safety record . And the C-Suite grew their compensation every year when employees are getting "paid for performance"
How many fatalities has Husky had?
That really is the ultimate measure of LTA.
Unfortunately, HSE safety stats were abysmal compared to CVE and now the safety group is primarily governed by those same people. A legacy CVE exec would be uncomfortable because it will impact their performance pay portion of their compensation. It would be nice if it was about people but it isn’t.