In addition to this week’s FFU event in Vernal, UPA member companies remain strong supporters in communities where they live and operate across Utah.

• Caerus teamed up with the Vernal Area Chamber of Commerce and Walmart to purchase, pack and deliver 60 loaded backpacks, personal items and hand sanitizer to underprivileged students in the local community.
• In addition, Caerus coordinated a number of voluntary cleanup efforts, including large graffiti and trash clean up on the Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration property and noxious weed removal on local BLM properties.
• Caerus has also been involved in various youth development programs. The company donated $1,000 to the local Boy Scouts of America fund and committed support of regional junior livestock shows and Special Olympics tournament events.
• XLC Resources is also supporting regional junior livestock events and has recently made donations to the Duchesne County Food Pantry which plays a large role in feeding rural families in need.
• Altamont worked alongside neighbors in Roosevelt, Utah, to provide local residents with 10 cords of wood to heat their homes. The team came together with local youth to split and deliver the wood in advance of this year’s fall and winter seasons.
• Ovintiv provided grants totaling approximately $1.5 million to the Uintah Basin Medical Center and Uintah Basin Technical College in order to help care for and train local residents.
• Marathon Petroleum provided a $25,000 grant to the Junior Achievement of Utah to maintain the company’s storefront at the Spencer F. Eccles Junior Achievement (JA) City. The local JA City program combines in-class learning with a day-long visit to this fully interactive simulated learning facility where students learn first-hand about time and money management as they work, bank, and shop as consumers.
• In addition, Marathon Petroleum has given $50,000 to support the Breathe Utah Air Quality education teacher workshops. The company provides teachers with several science experiment kits modeling combustion, cold air pools (inversions), etc. Participating teachers receive continuing education credits and the curriculum is approved by the Utah State Board of Education and directly tied to the core for K-12.

During the global coronavirus pandemic, the oil and gas industry has worked side by side with healthcare professionals and first responders to stop the virus from spreading. In addition, energy workers are doing their part to provide critical infrastructure, services, and energy products to Utah residents and businesses.

The industry, inspired by frontline workers, has made a number of contributions to bolster support for emergency care and community public health.

• The oil and gas industry is partnering with the State of Utah to make COVID-19 testing sites available for critical infrastructure workers, including those at production and refining locations across the state. This is an effort to stop the spread of COVID-19 through asymptomatic individuals and to ensure critical infrastructure and services continue to flow to Utahns during this crisis.
• Chevron Refinery, located in Davis County, has contributed $50,000 in gas cards to three organizations in the Salt Lake area for their coronavirus pandemic crisis relief efforts: Utah Food Bank, Bountiful Community Food Pantry and South Davis Metro Fire Department. Each of these organizations has used the cards to meet workforce and community fuel needs during the pandemic
• Chevron also donated 330 gallons of hand sanitizer to the local Davis School District to protect teachers and students alike.
• XCL Resources has donated resources to the Ute Tribe’s emergency fund and is working with the tribe to help elderly in the community access supplies such as hand sanitizer and water bottles. The funds will also help tribal youth get back to school during the pandemic.
• Apache has developed a Thermal Mass Scanner which can help businesses monitor body temperatures for anyone entering a facility. The Mass Scanner has dual lens intelligence, high accuracy, immediate results and non-contact, giving it the ability to scan up to 5,000 people in less than 30 minutes.
• Apache has also developed the Tomahawk 2000 UV-C Light, a tool which can quickly sterilize an area in a minimal amount of time, approximately three minutes for an average office. Other potential areas for use could include restrooms, and lunch rooms, offices.
• Marathon Petroleum has donated 9,600 N95 masks to Intermountain Health in Murray and 9,600 N95 masks to University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City. The company has also donated 550 cases of Nitrile exam gloves (275 cases to Salt Lake City Police and Fire and an additional 275 cases to Salt Lake County Health Department).