Oil Industry operations as diverse as SunCor’s oil extraction processes which extract oil from huge sand deposits in Canada to TransOcean’s deep water drilling operations in oceans around the world find that REASON Root Cause Analysis and Lessons Learned System fills their specific needs for operations improvement and safety applications. Drilling rigs share information about discovered equipment needs, corporate offices work on-line with the rigs to investigate problems, knowledge learned from root cause analyses is communicated to appropriate personnel and rigs around the world. Vital operations problem solving skills are pushed out to the field to involve operations personnel in day-to-day process improvement activities. Operations, maintenance and safety issues and solutions are merged into a common analysis and lessons learned knowledge base for global access by allied operations in future prevention activities.

Chemical operations around the world share issues of concern, compliance standards, and processes. Their goals for public safety, for worker safety and production environment safety are a top priority. Organizations like DuPont Logistics have adopted REASON and have designed alliance programs in which vendors and suppliers are encouraged to participate in a REASON network of companies that share operations problems with DuPont. Millennium Chemical has trained key personnel globally in order to establish a broad effort to unify and improve operations maintenance and safety concerns throughout their worldwide operations.