Awards
At the forefront of energy geoscience...
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.
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.
2024 winners
Energy Group Medal Award
Malcolm Butler
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
Chantelle Roelofse
Since joining industry Chantelle has continued to excel with achievements and highlights at Shell including her significant contributions to Play Based Exploration (PBE) studies both within UK and internationally, completion of a 12-month broadening assignment as a Geophysicist within the Shell Brazil Development Team and undertaking an offshore placed as Wellsite Geologist on a High-Pressure High-Temperature (HPHT) Exploration well in the UK North Sea.
Past Award Winners
Energy Group Medal Award
2023 Marie Cowan
2022 Stuart Haszeldine
2021 Philip Ringrose
Early Career Energy Geoscientist Award
2023 Natalie Farrell
2022 Munira Raji
2021 Lucy Cotton
Lifetime Achievement
2018 Jen Brzozowska
2017 Tony Doré
2014 Richard Hardman
Petroleum Group Medal
2019 Kitty Hall
2018 Richard Swarbrick
2017 Jonathan Craig
2016 Gro Haatvedt
2015 Alastair Fraser
2014 Mike Daly
Silver Medal
2013 Peter Rose
2012 John Underhill
2011 Malcolm Brown
2010 Joe Cartwright
2009 Bruce Levell
2008 Tony Hayward
2007 Tony Dore
2006 Roy Franklin OBE
2005 Mike Watts
2004 Alan Booth
2003 Dick Selley
2002 Richard Hardman
2001 Harold Reading
2000 Ken Glennie
1999 David Roberts
1998 John Martin
1997 Robert Stoneley
1996 Malcolm Pattinson
1995 John Brooks
1994 Nigel Anstey
1993 Ian Maycock
1992 Myles Bowen
1991 Victor Colter
Young Petroleum Geoscientist of the Year
2019 Scott Liebnitz
2018 Camille Burgess
2017 David Riley
2016 Benjamin Taylor
2015 Ceri Griffith-Swain
2014 Mehdi Yusifov
2013 Fiona Fairhurst
Young Explorer
2011 David Fisher
2010 David Jones
2009 Barnaby Roome
2008 Jeremy Lynch
2007 Kristan Reimann
2006 Bryan Ritchie
2005 John Smallwood
2004 Mark Dalrymple
2003 Simon Stewart