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DR. MOHAMMED AMIN ADAM
Executive Director of Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP)
AS
Oil and Gas Think Tank (Policy Activist) of the Year
This Award focuses on not-for-profit making organizations who have through various campaigns protected the Oil and Gas Industry from environmental hazards which affects human livelihood. Policy activist who have researched and provided supported into legislations and controls for the industry. Contributions to new technologies and standardized procedures and best practices will be an underlying criteria.
CEO of the Year
For a CEO to win, he or she needs to have consistently demonstrated clarity of vision, judgment and motivational skills that transform and empower organizations. The winner will be a leader who is highly respected by both peers and competitors, admired and followed by employees, trusted by investors and welcomed by the community.
This award is for recognition of courage, dedication, ethics and the ability to bring about real change for the better at a company level, in the industry as a whole and in the lives of employees.
Lifetime Achievement
This award cuts across all classifications and criteria. The winner might be an outstanding business leader, politician, regulator, academic, community activist, economist, engineer, trading or financial manager or technology specialist— any member of our industry who has made an outstanding contribution to the development and future of the oil and gas industry in the course of his or her career.
Nominations from individual’s employers, as well as from peers and colleagues will be accepted.
The winner’s achievement will be the product of a long and varied career of service, creativity, and insight; and this individual will have won widespread recognition and respect on the global stage.
Local Oil Company of the Year
This award will highlight recent contributions made by an a company. A transformational company which shifts the industry focus and trend must have a champion on the front line that can take a complex strategy and execute it with courage, creativity and concrete conviction. These trend-setters don’t follow the status quo; they rise up to execute a high standard.
Decision- makers will be looking for a the company who personifies innovation, stimulate intelligent action to meet opportunity and ultimately delivers that action. Company must have driven operations to new paradigms are critical to transform a company into an industry leadership role. While this individual may not be new to the industry, the company will have made the most remarkable strides in their role, inevitably impacting their industry.
Decision-makers will consider all senior management who are not yet CEO.
Exploration (Drilling and Well Completion Excellence)
This award recognizes true excellence in upstream industries – organizations providing advanced drilling solutions to the oil and gas industry. Drilling contractors, oilfield service companies, operators and other companies that engage in the drilling process are eligible to enter this category. The use of innovative techniques to preserve ecologically sensitive areas whilst carrying out the drilling phase will be rewarded. Organizations will be scrutinized on the strength and quality of their performance where both safety, commitment to the preservation of the local area and commercial goals are demonstrably best in class.
To win, a company must demonstrate that its activities in exploration and production set world-class standards in one or more of a range of activities. Exploration technologies and methods for finding new resources, maximizing technical excellence, innovative resource extraction, and bringing complex or difficult projects to schedule and on budget are top-of-mind in this evaluation.
Entries from coal, uranium and specialty mining operations, shallow and deep-sea drilling operations, integrated upstream oil and gas companies, specialist exploration companies, and divisions of larger companies will be considered.
Corporate Social Responsibility
This award illuminates the ever important convergence of profitability and company values. Rather than an obligation, CSR is a voluntary commitment which greatly motivates employee morale, is of fundamental interest to customers, investors and other key stakeholders and is a key determinant of a company’s character.
CSR will recognize the organization that best demonstrates leadership, commitment to action and real-world impacts from across its business. The decision-makers will seek a high-performing organization that has evidenced its positive influence on surrounding communities, promotes team work towards sustainable, long-term impacts and encourages active employee participation beyond financial contributions.
Excellence in Health, Safety and Environment
The Award for Excellence in Environmental Stewardship recognizes any efforts, initiatives or technological developments that have minimized or eliminated the environmental footprint of the oil and gas industry within the region. Organizations working directly with, or in the oil and gas sector, that can demonstrate making a positive contribution to the advancement of environmental considerations in any part of the oil and gas industry are eligible to enter this category.
Engineering and Construction Company of the Year
This is to reward engineering excellence, project execution and management. It aims to highlight achievements in surmounting specific engineering challenges, whether in complex and difficult environments, in executing a precision task, or in solving specific engineering problems in new ways; and those companies which undertake a construction or infrastructure project in any part of the oil and gas arena including pipelines, liquefied natural gas, refining, offshore oil, civil, electrical, and mechanical. Companies may use any relevant project work to example their expertise in the oil and gas sector.
Haulage Company of the Year
The Transportation Company Award recognizes haulage services provided to the oil and gas industry in the region. Companies engaged in the transportation and trucking with presence in most regions. The award recognizes safe, reliable and competitively-priced services to the oil and gas industry with a growing fleet and well-maintained facilities.
Local Content Initiative
This award recognizes implementation of policies that ensure significant participation by local companies and citizens, in both direct employment and in awarding contracts. It also considers regulations tailored to the absorptive capacity of national industry. The award also recognizes country-based Local content strategies that satisfy business plans, meet Local content obligations, and strengthen backward-linkages and local supplier competitiveness.
Innovative Technology of the Year
The race to bring renewable fuel technologies to maturity and mass market penetration is fierce, but first movers are discernible and deserve proper recognition. This award will focus on the research and development, ingenuity and commercialization potential of new technology, before their state of development. Examples include technologies focused on renewable energy, oil and gas storage devices, advanced propulsion systems or electric/hybrid transport.
The award is for “hard” technology only – software systems are not eligible for this award.
Consultancy and Recruitment Services of the Year
This award recognizes third party business consultancy and recruitment services provided to downstream and upstream. Eligible service providers can include, but are not limited to, commodity value for acquisition advice, strategy, tax planning, recruitment and corporate compliance consultancies operating directly with oil and gas clients in the region.
Oil and Gas Logistics Award
The company for this award should have provided the following services;
Secure Warehousing and Distribution
Exclusive Storage Areas & Import Packing
Import Compliance and Customs Clearance
Charter Services for Sea or Heavy Haul Moves
Logistics Plans and Site Surveys
Marine Services and Infrastructure Construction
Line Item Tracking & Reporting with Full Web Visibility
The company must have dedicated team of logistics professionals studying the oil and gas logistics requirements; provides customers with experienced professionals that offer service to manage the challenges for any oil and gas logistics need. Remote locations, heavy or oversized equipment, safety and security requirements are just a few of the challenges facing the oil and gas logistics industry. Critical transport space requirements or transit times to impact project schedules are considerable.
Innovative Product of the Year
This award goes to innovative products introduced into market and widely accepted by the public. The product must be unique and give overwhelming benefits to those who patronize it. The features, cost, efficiency of the said product will be the underlying requirements. The Award focuses on excellence in the research and development of new products. Products must improve health, safety and general performance. Product must be of immense benefits and gained competitive advantage in the Oil and Gas Industry.
Marketing Campaign of the Year
This award is presented to the company that has campaigned well by introducing and providing a convenient way to consumers to purchase products and services with ease. Examples are, but are not limited to, fuel cards for all transport businesses, from small car fleets to major road transport companies; credit cards for purchases and provide a more secure way to do shopping at service stations; promotions that have benefited consumers and customers.
Oil and Gas Financial Services Provider of the Year
This award belongs to the company which has been providing financial solutions, advice, corporate and investment support to clients. The company that provides funding for huge projects in the oil and gas industry considering providing a long-term loan stands tall in this category. The professionals that offer tailor-made funds to finance construction and operation, building on its expertise in Investing in the oil and gas markets is sought after.
Oil and Gas Insurer of the Year
This award seeks to honor the professional institution who have provided security during the continuing regulatory uncertainty period and as such will demonstrate that unlimited-recourse in providing complex coverage for clients including power plants, transportation and general oil and gas projects. The company must have offered advice that averts common accidents, oil and gas risk management and introduced policies tailored to curtail and suit clients operations in the oil and gas sector.
Lubricant Product of the Year
This award’s main industry focus is on the quality of a particular lubricant, efficiency and its extent on mileage. The public patronage will be taken into consideration as well. The Award will take into consideration annual distribution. Contamination control, technology, reliability and continuous improvement forms part of the criteria.
Bulk Distributor of the Year
This award category seeks a leader in innovation and integrated off take/supply solutions throughout the oil and gas industry. The company that has employed its distinctive, non-traditional methodology to help oil and gas consumers and producers optimize their exposure. The trader must have created alternative sources of oil and gas supply project when crucial to the development of national oil and gas market; implements the project of terminal floating liquefied gas storage. There are four Awards in this category. It goes to Bulk Distributor of the following.
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