THE finalists for this year’s Oil and Gas UK Awards have been announced.
The five categories are overall excellence, young technician of the year, mentoring, supply-chain business innovation, and a new award: people development.
The awards are sponsored by Shell UK and winners will be announced at a dinner on Thursday, November 5, at Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre.
Oil and Gas UK chief executive Malcolm Webb said: “The awards ceremony this year not only recognises the contribution being made by a new generation of industry employees and their mentors, but also highlights the importance of investment in people and their development. The new award for people development will give due recognition to organisations which realise, appreciate and develop their most important asset: their people.
“This year we received a record number of entries and the quality of those entries is again truly impressive.”
The winners will receive their awards from Wood Group chairman Sir Ian Wood.
Finalists
Overall excellence, sponsored by Marathon Oil UK: Joss Bolton, production programmer with Shell UK; Karina Sultanova, supply-chain consultant with Shell UK; and Peter Brannen, project engineer with Aker Solutions.
Young technician of the year, sponsored by Opito – The Oil and Gas Academy: TAQA Bratani operations technician Paul Cattanach; Apache North Sea production-operations technician David Maxwell, and Marathon Oil UK gas-generation maintenance team leader Colin Campbell.
Mentoring, sponsored by Chevron Upstream Europe: Craig Porter, engineering services manager with Subsea 7; Gary Longhurst, lead mechanical engineer with BP; and John McSherry, technical services manager with Sparrows Offshore Services.
Joint award for supply-chain business innovation, sponsored by Bibby Offshore: Aker Solutions with Nexen; and Halliburton with E.On Ruhrgas UK North Sea.
People development, sponsored by Aberdeen University: Champion Technologies; PSN; and Weatherford UK.