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Oil & Gas UK has launched its quest to find the most outstanding companies and inspirational people working in the offshore oil and gas industry by opening the nominations for this year海角吃瓜网檚 Awards.

The Oil & Gas UK Awards, sponsored by Shell UK Limited, will take place at Aberdeen海角吃瓜网檚 Exhibition and Conference Centre on the evening of 6聽November.

In this, the eighth year of the annual awards event, Oil & Gas UK is announcing a change to the structure of its awards categories. The two company awards, now called: the Oil & Gas UK Award for Investment in People, sponsored by Petrotechnics Limited and the Oil & Gas UK Award for Business Innovation, sponsored by BP, will both be split into two categories, one for large and the other for smaller companies.

Stephen Marcos Jones, Oil & Gas UK海角吃瓜网檚 Business Development Director, explains:海角吃瓜网淭he Oil & Gas UK Awards bring our industry together to showcase exceptional skills and enterprise demonstrated by individuals and companies across Britain.

海角吃瓜网淔ollowing feedback from both the 2013 judging panel and Oil & Gas UK membership, we have decided to tailor our awards categories to ensure that they are compelling to companies of all shapes and sizes working in or offering services to the oil and gas industry. We hope that this strategy will encourage a greater number of smaller players in the sector to share their achievements.海角吃瓜网�

The criteria for the awards note that smaller enterprises must meet two out of three of the following measures: Less than 250 employees; less than £25.9 million turnover; less than £12.5 million in assets. This has been set according to guidance on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), supplied by the UK Government海角吃瓜网檚 Department for Business Innovation & Skills.

In addition the individual awards have been revised in order to simplify each category. They are: Mentor of the Year, sponsored by Chevron North Sea Limited; Apprentice of the Year, sponsored by ECITB and Graduate of the Year, sponsored by the University of Aberdeen.

Glen Cayley, upstream director for Shell UK Limited and Oil & Gas UK海角吃瓜网檚 vice co-chair commented: 海角吃瓜网淲e are delighted to be supporting these prestigious awards again in 2014. Recognising and rewarding excellence is of great importance to Shell and our industry as a whole. These awards provide an opportunity to celebrate the host of talent 海角吃瓜网� from individual apprentices to entire business teams - which continues to develop in this diverse, exciting industry of ours.

海角吃瓜网淛udging by the quality of entries last year, we are looking forward to what we海角吃瓜网檙e sure will be an inspirational evening.海角吃瓜网�

Stephen Marcos Jones concludes: 海角吃瓜网淓arlier this month, Oil & Gas UK hosted its first Oil & Gas UK Annual Conference -the biggest conference of its kind for the UK oil and gas sector in 2014. That Conference gave us the opportunity to consider the next phase of operations on the UK Continental Shelf, with topics ranging from exploration to production efficiency, and within that we were witness to the effort and innovation within our industry.

海角吃瓜网淲e look forward to another annual event, the Oil & Gas UK Awards, later this year to celebrate the extraordinary teams and individuals pushing our sector forwards.海角吃瓜网�

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