The 2016 Offshore Achievement Awards are being launched today at SPE Offshore Europe, with new categories revealed.
2016 will mark the 30th anniversary of the awards, since their inception by Scottish Enterprise. The awards, relaunched in 2011, by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Aberdeen Section, are now open to both oil and gas and renewables companies.
New categories include Environmental Innovation, focusing on technologies or systems that have reduced the industry’s environmental impact, and Collaboration, recognising multiple companies or inter-company teams effectively working together on a project, or those collaborating closely with the community on CSR initiatives.
The Outstanding Skills Development Programme Award will recognise companies bringing new talent to the industry. The Above and Beyond award has been introduced and is open to any individual who goes beyond their daily role to contribute to their company or the industry in general. This year’s Significant Contribution award is also open to companies, projects or individuals this year.
Ian Phillips, chief executive of the Oil and Gas Innovation Centre and the SPE Aberdeen board member responsible for the OAAs, said: “Despite a troubled year for the oil and gas sector, there are still many success stories to be heard and the Offshore Achievement Awards is the premier forum in which to share these. Likewise, there is much to celebrate in the UK’s world-leading offshore renewables sector and these successes will be given the same priority as those within oil and gas.”
The 2016 Offshore Achievement Awards categories are:
Entry, from UK-registered companies operating within the renewables or the oil and gas industry opens 1 October and closes 1 December.
Find out more, visit www.spe-oaa.org
Image: Initiatives such as the SPE Aberdeen schools engagement programme, which ran during Offshore Europe 2015, are funded by events including the Offshore Achievement Awards.
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