Phillips 66 earns 2025 API Distinguished Pipeline Safety Award for a strong culture of performance, accountability and continuous improvement
Phillips 66 has been named by the American Pipeline Institute (API) the 2025 API Distinguished Pipeline Safety Award winner in the Extra-Large Operator category. The award recognizes the company’s industry-leading safety performance and proactive efforts to advance a zero-incident culture across its pipeline systems.
Why it matters
This recognition highlights Phillips 66’s commitment to protecting people, communities and the environment by showcasing the everyday actions of employees and contractors who do the job right, speak up and work together to prevent incidents. It reflects:
- A strong safety culture, where following procedures, reporting near misses and learning from experience are fundamental to how work gets done.
- A continued focus on strengthening systems, training and technology to support safe, reliable operations across the network.
The award was presented during the opening of the API Pipeline Conference and Expo in Aurora, Colorado, where Phillips 66 was honored alongside peers in the Small, Medium and Large Operator categories. Selected by their peers following a rigorous application and review process, winners are recognized for safety performance and proactive initiatives that advance pipeline safety and overall industry performance.
This is the fifth time Phillips 66 has been recognized with an API Distinguished Pipeline Safety Award, most recently as the 2024 Large Operator winner, reflecting strong safety performance, innovative technologies and proactive stakeholder engagement.
As the 2025 Extra-Large Operator winner, Phillips 66 is being honored for its leadership in safety management and implementation of API RP 1173, the industry’s pipeline safety management system standard, along with its work to implement API Recommended Practice 1185 through the Phillips 66 Midstream Public Engagement Guidelines and Assessment Tools. The company has also expanded satellite-based analytics to identify encroachments and land-use changes along rights-of-way, enabling a more proactive field response.
What it takes to operate safely every day
“For us, this award is about people. It’s about the operators and technicians in the field, the controllers in our control centers, our integrity and engineering teams, our HSE professionals, our planners and schedulers, and the many contractors who work alongside us.
They are the ones who plan the work, follow the procedures, speak up when something doesn’t look right, and watch out for one another so that everyone goes home safe, every day.
To our Phillips 66 teammates—many of whom are not in this room but are hard at work today—this award belongs to you.”
Todd Tanory
Phillips 66 SVP, midstream operations
Tanory also highlighted that safety is foundational to how Phillips 66 designs, builds, maintains and operates its systems, noting that teams have strengthened integrity management programs, enhanced training and increased the use of data and new technologies to identify and address risks before they become incidents.
“This recognition from API reflects that collective effort and the progress we’ve made, but it is not a finish line,” he said, reinforcing the company’s long‑term commitment to continuous improvement in pipeline safety.
At its core, this work is driven by people committed to keeping one another and the communities they serve safe.
Click here to learn more about the API Pipeline Safety awards.