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SPE’s Offshore

Achievement

Activity

Awards (L-R) Graham Skinner, trainee rig manager at KCA DEUTAG Drilling was

By Elaine Maslin presented with the Young Professional

Innovation in the offshore industry

Award and Malcolm Webb, chief execu- was one of the key themes at this th 2013 Offshore tive of Oil & Gas UK with the Signif- year’s 27 Offshore Achievement cant Achievement Award

Awards.

Achievement

The event, supported by Offshore

Award winners

Ian Phillips, SPE Board Director and

Engineer and held at the Aberdeen chair of the Offshore Achievements

Signifcant Achievement:

Exhibition & Conference Centre, was

Awards organizing committee,

Malcolm Webb, Chief Executive, Oil successfully re-launched in 2011 by addressing the audience & Gas UK the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Aberdeen section.

Great Large Company Award:

Ian Phillips, SPE board member

Malcolm Webb

Axis Well Technology and chairman of the OAA organiz- graduated from ing committee, said: “The Offshore Liverpool University and is a lawyer

Great Small Company Award:

Achievement Awards are the pin- by profession. He began his oil career

ROVOP nacle of the energy industry calendar with Burmah Oil in 1974 and held a and SPE Aberdeen is very proud to series of senior roles for the British

Young Professional Award: host this prestigious event. National Oil Corp., Charterhouse

Graham Skinner – KCA DEUTAG “The caliber of entries we received Petroleum, and PetroFina. He spent

Drilling Ltd.

this year was exceptional. Our judg- three years as director general of ing panel, which comprised senior the UK Petroleum Industry Associa-

Working Together Award: representatives from sponsoring tion before joining Oil & Gas UK in

Maersk Oil/ Technip companies and SPE Board members, February 2004, where he has been faced some diffcult decisions, par- closely involved in its major change

Export Achievement Award: ticularly in the Innovator category, process to make it the leading trade

Online Electronics Limited where the excellence of the entries association open to all companies led to two companies being declared within the UK offshore oil & gas

Safety Innovations Award: joint winners along with another be- industry. He is a member of PILOT Houlder ing highly commended. and the Fiscal Forum, the UK gov- “From all of the entries we have ernment/industry bodies which aim

Innovator Award: Joint winners - seen, it is clear that there is much to to secure the long-term future of the

Red Spider Technology and be celebrated in the offshore indus- UK upstream oil & gas industry, and

Stork Technical Services try, from small companies creating a of the Scottish Government’s Energy

Highly commended – Tendeka step change in safety through to huge Advisory Board. He is also a director global organizations that are produc- of the industry skills body, OPITO

Emerging Technology Award: ing the next generation of industry and chairman of Common Data Ac-

Web Rigging Services leaders,” added Phillips, also direc- cess Limited, which facilitates access tor of CO2DeepStore. to UK geo-technical data.

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