ONEOK WesTex Transmission Receives American Gas Association Safety Achievement Award
Recognized as an Industry Leader in Employee Safety
TULSA, Okla., May 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ONEOK Partners, L.P. (NYSE: OKS) announced today that its subsidiary, ONEOK WesTex Transmission, received a 2010 American Gas Association (AGA) Safety Achievement Award for its efforts to promote employee safety in the workplace and its employee safety record.
The award was presented at the 2011 AGA Operations Conference held this month in Nashville, Tenn.
"This recognition reflects the continuing efforts of our employees to operate our assets safely," said Terry Spencer, ONEOK Partners chief operating officer. "Their ongoing commitment to workplace safety is something we continue to strive for as we work to improve our environment, safety and health performance."
AGA Safety Achievement Awards are given to businesses in the natural gas industry that show exceptional employee safety performance throughout the year. The main criteria for the award is the DART (Days Away, Restricted and Transferred)-incident rate, a rate representing employee days away from work because of injury and any restricted or transferred incidents. For companies to be considered for the award they must have zero employee fatalities, a DART-incident rate lower than their industry segment average and an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)-recordable incident rate lower than their industry segment average.
ONEOK WesTex Transmission, L.L.C., part of ONEOK Partners' natural gas pipelines business segment, is an intrastate pipeline system operating within Texas. The transmission system consists of approximately 2,380 miles of pipeline connected to major natural gas-producing areas in the Texas Panhandle, Waha Hub and Permian Basin.
ONEOK WesTex Transmission also received an AGA Safety Achievement Award in 2009.
ONEOK Partners, L.P. (NYSE: OKS) is one of the largest publicly traded master limited partnerships, and is a leader in the gathering, processing, storage and transportation of natural gas in the U.S. and owns one of the nation's premier natural gas liquids (NGL) systems, connecting NGL supply in the Mid-Continent and Rocky Mountain regions with key market centers. Its general partner is a wholly owned subsidiary of ONEOK, Inc. (NYSE: OKE), a diversified energy company, which owns 42.8 percent of the overall partnership interest. ONEOK is one of the largest natural gas distributors in the United States, and its energy services operation focuses primarily on marketing natural gas and related services throughout the U.S.
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