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horizontal well targeting undeveloped zones.” 2022, causing the deadly burns. SERVICES
In consideration for the purchase of Inspectors with the department’s
the assets, Wedgemount will pay the seller Occupational Safety and Health Hess selects Halliburton
$160,000. The company expects to finance Administration identified the training
the acquisition through cash on hand. deficiencies and failure by BP Products well construction suite to
Wedgemount expects to close the proposed North America to meet OSHA’s process
transaction as outlined in the PSA on or safety management procedures. They also implement digital wells
before March 24, 2023. determined naphtha – a flammable liquid
WEDGEMOUNT RESOURCES, March 21, 2023 hydrocarbon mixture – was released when Halliburton Company today announced that
flow control valves were opened in an attempt Hess Corporation has selected Halliburton
to regulate an overfill occurring in upstream Landmark’s DecisionSpace® 365 Well
DOWNSTREAM process equipment. The opened valve allowed Construction applications powered by
the flammable liquid to enter the refinery’s iEnergy® Hybrid Cloud to plan, design, and
Federal investigators fuel gas system. construct safe, cost effective, and productive
OSHA cited BP Products for failing to
wells.
find operating, training implement shutdown procedures for the an agile enterprise and bring planning, design,
DecisionSpace 365 applications empower
equipment when requested by the operators
deficiencies contributed to responding to the naphtha release and for and operations together to create a digital
twin of the well construction process. The
not clearly defining conditions for emergency
fatal bp products refinery shutdown of the crude tower. applications provide operators real time and
“Federal safety standards require BP
efficient collaboration with oilfield service
explosion that claimed two Products North America Inc. to develop providers and drilling contractors.
companywide process safety and response
“Hess is using advanced technology to
workers’ lives procedures that address worst-case scenarios,” elevate our operational performance and do
explained OSHA Area Director Todd Jensen
that sustainably,” said Richard Lynch, SVP,
A federal investigation into two workers’ in Toledo, Ohio. “This tragedy is a reminder of Technology and Services at Hess. “We look
fatal burns at an Oregon, Ohio, refinery’s why employers must consistently re-evaluate forward to applying this solution to help
crude unit has found its operator, BP those procedures for accuracy and ensure reduce well costs and optimise our digital
Products North America Inc. violated the workers are properly trained to respond in workflow.”
US Department of Labor’s process safety dangerous situations.” With DecisionSpace 365 powered by
procedures for highly hazardous materials and OSHA proposed $156,250 in penalties, an iEnergy hybrid cloud, Hess can leverage
failed to adequately train the workers. amount set by federal statutes, and cited the predictive drilling analytics using artificial
As the workers attempted to correct rising company for 10 serious violations, and one intelligence/machine learning and gain
liquid levels in the fuel gas mix drum, a other-than-serious violation of process safety comprehensive oversight across the entire well
flammable vapor cloud formed, ignited and management procedures. construction lifecycle.
then triggered an explosion in September US DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, March 16, 2023 “Our Landmark technology provides

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