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Each year the Group makes awards in recognition of achievements and talent of individuals within the energy geoscience industry. 

2025 Awards

Nominations for the 2025 Energy Group Awards are now OPEN. Deadline is 7 March 2025

Energy Group Medal Award

The Energy Group Medal is an annual award presented to individuals with a geoscience background who have made an outstanding contribution to the energy industry. 

Nomination form

Guidance notes

Early Career Energy Geoscientist Award

The Early Career Energy Geoscientist Award is an annual award presented to recognise Energy Geoscientists in the early stages of their career. Nominees must be within ten years (full time equivalent) of the award of their first degree in geoscience or a cognate subject, and either have already made a significant contribution to the understanding of Energy geoscience or be an emerging talent who is making a significant impact in the field. 

Nomination form

Guidance notes 

2024 winners

Energy Group Medal Award

The geology of the UK is exceptionally varied and comprises a range of resources with nearly a 100-year long history of exploration and data acquisition. Nearly all the geophysical data ever acquired have been collated and made available to the public and commercial companies by the UK Onshore Geophysical Library (UKOGL) through the dedication and commitment of Dr Malcolm Butler who recognised the lack of stewardship of the onshore geophysical data and set up UKOGL as a charity in 1994.

UKOGL subsequently developed an exceptionally user friendly interface to serve the data to the public from which anyone anywhere can download images and electronic versions of seismic and borehole data from across onshore and inshore UK. Importantly, the data are made available in accessible formats suited for use by the lay person thus demonstrating a wish to inform the public, as well as industry standard formats (SEGY, LAS, etc) ready for workstation interpretation. This legacy database would cost a fortune to re-acquire and is thus critical to the understanding and utilisation of the UK subsurface.

Harnessing the vast majority of the geophysical data ever acquired in the UK is a phenomenal achievement which is so much more impressive as it was largely the work over 30 years by a single dedicated (unsalaried) person with ad hoc support by associates and a data management company (Lynx). The breadth and depth of the work involved means that there is no parallel to UKOGL anywhere in the world.

Early Career Energy Geoscientist Award