Case Study: Kinder Morgan achieves 99.5% compliance and operational excellence with Sphera opsInfo

Kinder Morgan Delivers on EHS Compliance, Transparency and Accountability for Operational Excellence

Kinder Morgan, one of North America’s largest pipeline transportation and energy storage companies, needed to manage 3,482 environmental permits across 918 facilities and hundreds of jurisdictions while delivering enterprise-level and highly granular EHS reporting and reducing compliance risk from personnel changes. To solve this, Kinder Morgan turned to Sphera and its opsInfo software.

Sphera deployed opsInfo across the enterprise—covering about 918 facilities and roughly 2,200 users—providing dashboards, task management and compliance assurance that let managers drill into exceptions and assign ownership. The Sphera solution tracked more than 66,000 compliance actions in 2009, achieved a 99.5% compliance rate and 99.9% on-time completion, typically identifies personnel-related gaps in under 30 days, and standardized language, metrics and reporting to drive operational excellence.

Kinder Morgan

Dirk Cockrum

Director of Compliance, EHS Department