# West Warm Springs Field Project

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4801766
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Oil Sand
- **Location:** Hot Springs, WY
- **Operator:** New Era Petroleum, Inc.
- **Controller:** New Era Petroleum (Jersey) Ltd
- **Public source rows linked:** 489
- **Source coverage:** 13 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**New Era Petroleum (Jersey) Ltd (0091773) → New Era Petroleum, Inc. (0108445) → West Warm Springs Field Project (4801766)**

Current identity source: `msha-mines`. This is a current snapshot, not a historical claim.

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **New Era Petroleum (Jersey) Ltd et al → New Era Petroleum, Inc.:** 2012-07-03 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4801766; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 1
- Typed edges: 3
- Interval anomalies: 0
- Valid-time bounds: inclusive; date granularity; null end means open-ended in the upstream history row; not independent proof of present control.
- Transaction-time observation: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 1 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 8 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 197 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 27 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 49 violation rows across the full record; 2 carry an S&S flag and $6,753 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 9 samples:** Occupational health samples 9 personal. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 0 noise rows have an action-level or PEL dose above 100%. These are separate measures, not a silica exceedance count. Silica results and sample status are shown separately.
4. **PRODUCTION — No published quarter:** Quarterly production and employment The source remains registered, but no mine-keyed quarterly production row was published.
5. **LEGAL — 14 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 7 contested-violation rows, 7 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 3 linked entities:** Contractors Contractors are linked through this mine’s violation or accident records. Their production and hours cover all their operations, so they are not included in this mine’s totals.
7. **INSPECTIONS — 27 since 2021:** Inspections 75 inspection events and 1K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

No matched record in the 2024 EIA coal-public workbook. This may be inapplicable for a non-coal operation.

## Recent Title 30 crosswalk

Snapshot current through 2026-08-19.

- **30 CFR 57.11051 — Escape routes.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-J/section-57.11051
- **30 CFR 57.14132 — Horns and backup alarms for surface equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-M/section-57.14132
- **30 CFR 57.8525 — Main fan maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-G/section-57.8525
- **30 CFR 57.12010 — Isolation or insulation of communication conductors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-K/section-57.12010
- **30 CFR 56.4130 — Electric substations and liquid storage facilities.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4130
- **30 CFR 57.12028 — Testing grounding systems.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-K/section-57.12028
- **30 CFR 57.19023 — Examinations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-R/section-57.19023
- **30 CFR 56.4102 — Spillage and leakage.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4102
- **30 CFR 56.14132 — Horns and backup alarms.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14132
- **30 CFR 56.4530 — Exits.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4530
- **30 CFR 57.20003 — Housekeeping.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-S/section-57.20003
- **30 CFR 57.14112 — Construction and maintenance of guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-M/section-57.14112

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 8 rows; 2013-02-18 through 2022-07-04; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2013-08-05 through 2013-08-05; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 46 rows; 2012-09-17 through 2025-11-03; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 7 rows; 2013-04-23 through 2016-06-30; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Contested Violations:** 7 rows; 2012-09-17 through 2014-06-18; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 208 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 42 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2012-07-03 through 2012-07-03; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 75 rows; 2012-09-17 through 2026-08-30; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 35 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Metal and Nonmetal Personal Health Samples:** 9 rows; 2014-08-20 through 2026-06-17; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 49 rows; 2012-09-17 through 2026-08-31; source ID `msha-violations`

## Caveats

- This is public-record decision support, not legal advice or an official MSHA record.
- Missing data can indicate no event, publication delay, an unresolved identity, or inapplicability.
- Contractor production data is entity-level and is not attributed to this mine.

## Alternate representations

- HTML: `/mines/west-warm-springs-field-project-4801766`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/west-warm-springs-field-project-4801766`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4801766/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4801766/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4801766/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`