RIASSUNTO
Abstract
Over the past 2-1/2 years, ConocoPhillips has undertaken a challenge to establish safety as a core value in its drilling and completion operations in the ArkLaTex region with positive results in safety and operations. By working together with our contractors, decreases in trailing indicators (e.g. recordables) have been realized along with increases in leading indicators (e.g. JSAs performed/reviewed, BBS participation, unplanned event reporting). The paper details a journey (still in progress) starting with safety leadership training and the establishment of a regional safety leadership team comprised of senior operations managers and business owners dedicated to making a change. The paper also details a host of initiatives including visibility, contractor management, focused HSE campaigns, stand-downs, incentive programs and joint efforts with production. While this is not a roadmap to HSE improvement, it can be used as a compass to set and maintain direction.
Introduction
In the second quarter of 2003, Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) performance for ConocoPhillips' drilling and completion operations in the ArkLaTex region was looking good from an OSHA recordable perspective with zero recordables to date. Numerous initiatives were ongoing and appeared to be contributing to an improvement in HSE performance. Over the course of the next several months, a string of recordable injury incidents occurred ultimately raising the 2003 OSHA Total Recordable Rate (TRR) rate to an incident rate of 11.86 per 200,000 man-hours. From a business perspective, operational well performance was exceeding targets, but HSE performance was totally unacceptable. Management communicated that urgent action was required to change this trend, because no injury is an acceptable byproduct of our operations.
Operations personnel recognized the issue to be one of primary importance and began a process of formulating a strategy to improve performance. We started with an evaluation of baseline historical trend information. Figure 1 is a comparison of TRR rates between ConocoPhillips' Drilling and Completion operations and reported IADC[1] rates. A closer inspection revealed that a large majority of the injury incidents were occurring to 3rd party or non-drilling crew personnel. The incidents were spread amongst location construction, drilling operations and completion operations. The 2003 TRR for core drilling crewmembers was approximately 4.0 versus 19.2 for third party personnel. A strategy was developed to both improve and leverage the HSE performance of the core drilling crew to assist in improving 3rd party HSE performance. Essential to the strategy was an acknowledgement that any new initiatives must address the question, ""What's in it for me?? when rolling it out to field personnel.