Nominations

Emerging Technology Award

The Emerging Technology Award recognises innovative technologies with the potential to transform the offshore energy sector.

Technologies should have progressed beyond the concept stage and be undergoing validation, qualification, demonstration, or early deployment as they advance towards commercialisation.

Typical Technology Readiness Level (TRL): 4-7

Full criteria can be found on the entry form. 

Field Proven Technology Award

The Field Proven Technology Award recognises technologies that have successfully transitioned from development into operational use and are delivering measurable value to customers and the offshore energy sector.

Typical Technology Readiness Level (TRL): 8-9

Full criteria can be found on the entry form.

Collaboration Award

The Collaboration Award recognises outstanding collaboration between two or more independent organisations or teams/functions within an organisation that have come together to successfully deliver a specific project, campaign or significant scope of work within the energy industry.

The award is intended to celebrate organisations that have demonstrated genuine collaboration through shared objectives, integrated working, joint problem-solving and collective responsibility for successful project delivery.

Full criteria can be found on the entry form.

Energy Security Excellence Award - NEW for 2027!

The purpose of the Energy Security Excellence Award is to recognise organisations, teams, partnerships or projects that have made an outstanding contribution to strengthening the UK's energy security through the delivery, optimisation, reliability or resilience of offshore energy systems. This award celebrates achievements that ensure secure, affordable and sustainable energy supplies through innovation, operational excellence, collaboration and effective stewardship of critical offshore energy infrastructure. It aligns with the industry's role in supporting domestic energy production while enabling the transition to a lower-carbon energy system.

Full criteria can be found on the entry form.

Workplace Culture - Offshore Award

The Workplace Culture - Offshore Award recognises an offshore workplace whose crew have built something special offshore - a positive, welcoming and inclusive environment for everyone on board, from core crew to ad-hoc personnel, contractors and vendors. The Award is open to any UKCS manned fixed platform, drilling unit or floating facility, including FPSOs.

Full criteria can be found on the entry form.

Workplace Culture - Onshore Award - NEW for 2027!

The Workplace Culture - Onshore Award recognises a workplace that has built something special - it starts with how a space is designed and governed. It is proven by whether every person who spends time there as employees, contractors, vendors, ad-hoc or visiting personnel alike, experiences the same standard of welcome, safety, and respect, regardless of their contract type or how long they'll be on site.

Full criteria can be found on the entry form.

Sustainability Award

The Sustainability Award recognises the efforts of individuals, teams and companies who practice sustainable business, encourage sustainability in their people, develop technologies and/or operate with clear sustainable values. Sustainability in this context pertains to practices aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (see https://sdgs.un.org/goals). These include:

• climate action - reducing emissions by limiting harmful activities (e.g. venting, flaring, fugitives, combustion),substituting for clean options (electrification, renewables) or through emissions removal (e.g. CCS).
• environmental stewardship - refers to limiting waste production, water stewardship and enhancing biodiversity and ecosystems.
• social sustainability - includes enabling a just transition with decent work for employees, championing diversity in its widest sense (e.g. race, gender, sexuality, age, socioeconomics), contribution to local communities and/or irradicating modern slavery.

Full criteria can be found on the entry form.

Young Professional Award

The Young Professional Award will recognise the professional capability and the wider contribution made to the offshore industry (including oil and gas or renewables) by a person aged 35 or under.

Significant Contribution Award

The Significant Contribution Award will recognise an individual who has made the most significant professional contribution to the offshore energy industry above and beyond their day-to-day role. The judges are interested to hear from candidates who meet one or more of the following criteria:

• Have made a significant contribution to the industry over time – perhaps through involvement in industry / professional / governmental organisations
• Demonstrated outstanding leadership – either within their own organisation or more widely in the industry
• Articulated and driven the implementation of a clear vision either within their own organisation or more widely in the industry
• Have made a significant difference to the industry or to society by their actions