(Pemex, 28.May.2015) – Petroleos Mexicanos presented its Safety, Health and Environmental Protection Strategy 2015-2025 (SSPA, for its acronym in Spanish) which outlines actions to strengthen safety and reliability culture of operations in a safe and efficient manner enabling greater productivity.
After pointing out that Pemex is on the verge of a new phase of its history, Pemex CEO, Emilio Lozoya, asserted that safety, besides protecting workers welfare, is essential to compete in current and future markets.
“We are determined, he emphasized, in promoting an ambitious transformation process of Pemex to address the new reality in which we operate,” said Lozoya.
In the context of SSPA Day, he stated that Pemex’s activities are focused on maximizing oil value for the benefit of Mexicans, which means competing with the best companies in the world.
Pemex must be the most competitive company in the Mexican oil and gas industry and an international reference. To achieve that, he explained, four strategic areas have been defined: developing the most profitable activities, implementing a business model based on process management, establishing a system for operational excellence and creating a culture of high performance.
He noted that we can never let our guard down on security, and said that knowledge and root cause analysis of accidents should lead to establish practices that help prevent all accidents.
“Safety measures are not optional in oil activities development but are to be complied and enforced by all workers and officials,” he said.
When presenting the SSPA strategy, Pemex Manager of Planning, Coordination and Performance, Rodulfo Figueroa, reported that since the system was implemented 10 years ago, accident frequency rate improved by 75% and reached its lower level in 2014 to 0.38 accidents per million man-hours of work performed, below the international standard.
Specifically, he emphasized that during that period there has been a decrease of 40% on serious accidents, while unscheduled shutdowns rates in plants in 2014 was below 1%, which represents a 17% decrease, as compared to the previous year.
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