Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) and Bharat Petroleum Limited (BPCL) emerged as winners at the annual PetroFed Oil & Gas Industry Awards held on September 8, 2014.
The event recognizes excellence in performance in a variety of categories within the industry. The awardswere presented by Secretary of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Mr. Saurabh Chandra. While Petroleum Minister, Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan, was expected to give away the awards, he was unable to attend the ceremony due to his travel.
Winners in Leading Categories
RIL took home the Refinery of the Year award.Its Jamnagar Manufacturing Division consists of a refinery that is equipped to manufacture a variety of crude oil and fuel. Ranked 11.3 on the Nelson Complexity Index, this refinery is able to process heavy and sour crude oil to manufacture high-value products.
BPCL won the Leading Oil & Gas Corporate of the Yearand the Oil & Gas marketing Company of the Year awards. The company also received special commendations for their system, which is able to predict the refining characteristics of a crude oil sample. BPCL was also given accolades for its GPS-based pipeline surveillance personnel movement monitoring systems. Besides,ONGC won the Exploration & Production Company of the Year accolade.
Top Honors and Commendations
Other top honors were distributed to Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), which won the Oil & Gas Pipeline Transportation Company of the Year award. The Human Resources Management Company of the Yearwent to Indian Oil Corporation (IOC). A 10-member team at IOC along with Chennai Petroleum Corp Ltd (CPCL) also bagged the Innovator of the Year – Team award. The team was led by R K Malhotra, the then Director of Research and Development at IOC. The award was presented in recognition of the development and commercialization of a technology that co-processes non-edible oils in diesel hydro-processing operations within an existing refinery. Each member of the winning team under this category was further recognized with a cash prize of ₹ 50,000.
The individual Innovator of the Year category went to Dr. Shashikant at IOC for his contribution to the development of a catalyst for Olefin Polymerisation and a process to manufacture Tarpaulin Grade Polyethylene. The individual award also carried a cash component of ₹200,000. In addition to Dr. Shashikant’s win, two special commendations were given away under this category for IOC’s Guwahati Refinery and HPCL.
The Environmental Sustainability – Company of the Year award went to Oil India Limited while the awards for project management were jointly given to Essar Oil and GAIL India Limited.
Team Leader, Aviation HR at BPCL, Ms. Ritu Mathur, was recognized as the Woman Executive of the Year. In addition to the accolade, she also received a cash award of Rupees 1,00,000. Ms. Sita Baruah, Senior Maintenance Manager at IOC’s Guwahati Refinery, was bestowed with a special commendation under the same category.
The winners of the PetroFed Oil & Gas Industry Awards 2013 were selected with the help of a process developed by knowledge partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and an evaluation conducted by the Awards Committee. This Committee was led by Prodipto Ghosh, former Secretary to the Government of India.