Trade body Oil and Gas UK has announced the shortlist for this year’s instalment of its prestigious OGUK Awards.
The annual event showcases the brightest and best talent from across the country’s offshore oil and gas industry, with finalists representing the hard work, innovation and collaboration that has been adopted throughout the industry in 2020.
The judging panel, which included Mark Lammey, Energy Voice editor, OGUK decommissioning manager, Joe Leask, and executive director of Step Change in Safety, Steve Rae, whittled down more than 90 applications to a shortlist of thirty individuals and businesses across eight award categories.
The winners will be crowned at OGUK’s first ever virtual awards event on Thursday December 10.
Commenting, OGUK chief executive Deirdre Michie, OBE said: “I am delighted to present the shortlist for OGUK’s annual awards. This past year, our industry experienced one of the strongest headwinds we have had yet to face, – but we are pulling through with innovation, collaboration, and determination. This is the North Sea grit we are known for and it enables us to keep providing energy to the UK during this difficult time.
“The finalists represent the excellence the industry has to offer. I’d like to congratulate all of our finalists on their super achievements and wish them the best of luck for the ceremony.”
The full list of finalists are as follows:
Apprentice
- Callum Forbes (ASCO Group)
- Kieron Malster (Proserv Controls)
- Scott Milligan (OPITO CNOOC)
Graduate
- Connor Robb (Baker Hughes)
- Hisham Hamid (BP)
- Steven Scott (Shell UK Limited)
Mentor of the Year
- Diane Samulewicz (ChampionX)
- John Hogg (TAQA)
- Martin White (Halliburton)
Workforce engagement
- ASCO Group
- Sodexo Energy & Resources
- Spirit Energy
Business Innovation
- Legasea
- Hellenes
- Omniscient Safety Innovations Ltd
- ChampionX
- Petrofac
- Total E&P UK Ltd
Diversity and Inclusion
- Baker Hughes
- Imrandd
- Spirit Energy
Energy Transition
- Shell U.K. Limited
- Total E&P UK Ltd
- Wood
Excellence in Decommissioning
- Fairfield Energy Ltd
- J&S Subsea Limited
- Shell U.K. Limited
The judging panel is as follows:
- Arne Gurtner, Equinor
- Teresa Waddington, Shell
- Andy Samuel, OGA
- Stuart Payne, OGA
- Joe Leask, OGUK
- Pauline Innes, OGA
- Neil McCulloch, Spirit Energy
- Louise O’Hara Murray, OGUK
- Graeme Fergusson, Fairfield Decom
- Jennifer Craw, ONE
- Craig Shanaghey, wood
- Max Easley, Apache
- Ollie Folayan, AFBE UK Ltd
- Alix Thomas, Neptune
- Steve Rae, Step Change in Safety
- Scott McGinigal, CNOOC
- Alix Thom, OGUK
- Emily Taylor, OGUK
- Stephen Sheal, OGTC
- Lucy Ritchie, Shell
- Katy Heidenreich, OGUK
- Sripad Gopala, IMRAND
- Mark Lammey, Energy Voice