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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. 

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

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

Chantelle is an outstanding early career Geoscientist whose research applied novel methodologies using geophysical data to advance our understanding of fundamental processes in hydrocarbon systems, CO2 storage, fluid flow and seal integrity. Specific areas where Chantelle's research has pushed the envelope within the research field include 1) methodologies to evaluate leakage risk for CO2 storage sites using fluid flow features; 2) magmatic sills and hydrothermal vents with implications for hydrocarbon plumbing systems and seal integrity; 3) hydrocarbon leakage associated with salt diapirs and implications for hydrocarbon systems and shallow hazards. The scientific rigour, novel approaches and findings from Chantelle's research have led to her publishing several articles within high-impact peer-reviewed journals.

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