The Gas Industry Awards, brought to you by IGEM and the Energy and Utilities Alliance (EUA) recognises the contribution of the gas industry’s most innovative, dedicated and outstanding members.

In compiling the shortlist, a panel of esteemed judges deliberated over more than 100 entries for the prestigious awards.

The winners of each of the 10 categories will be named at the award ceremony held in-person at the InterContinental Hotel, on Park Lane.

The shortlisted nominees are:

Company of the Year

• Life at National Gas Metering
• Skewb
• United Living Infrastructure Services

Customer Service Award

• Cadent: Stannington Incident Response
• SGN: Never Walking Away
• Skewb: Improving the Customer Connection Journey
• Sovereign Housing

Engineer of the Year

• Wing-yee Chan, Professional Engineer at Drainage Services Department, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
• Steve Critchlow, Principal Gas Engineer / Incident Investigator at Health and Safety Executive
• Alex Jurgens, Terminal Project Engineer at National Grid Grain LNG
• Simon Thurlow, Project Manager at SGN

Innovation Award

• AUSMOS GPR Mapping and Mark Out Robot by ULC Technologies in collaboration with SGN, and Transport for London (TfL)
• FBOS (Foambag Operation on Stubs) partnership between Steve Vick International and Cadent
• HyDeploy, Winlaton by Northern Gas Networks in collaboration with Cadent, Keele University, Health & Safety Executive, ITM Power and Progressive Energy
• HyNTS Energy System Transition Programme by National Gas Transmission PLC, in collaboration with National Grid Electricity Transmission, and National Grid ESO

Leadership Award

• Adrian McConnell, Chief Executive at CO Research Trust
• Jen Moten, Director of North West at Cadent
• Ian Palmer-Smith, Supplier and Heating Service Director at Domestic & General
• Dean Roberts, Senior Compliance Services - Head of Gas and Renewables at Sovereign Housing

Manager of the Year

• James Hooker, Technical Development and Re-life Manager at National Grid Grain LNG
• Lucy Mason, Managing Director Energy Networks at Skewb Ltd
• Cerianne Talbot, Operations Manager at Morrison Energy Services

Product of the Year

• Skewb Opus by Skewb Ltd
• STATS BISEP Line Stop, First use in UK gas transmission by STATS Group
• Bonded service fitting on a cured-in-place pipe (CIPP) lined live gas main for reduced disruption, cost and environmental impact by Water Research Centre Ltd

Project of the Year

• Deephams Gas To Grid Plant by SGN in partnership with Thames Water
• FutureGrid by National Gas Transmission PLC in partnership with DNV, Health & Safety Executive, Fluxys, Durham University, and The University of Edinburgh
• HyDeploy, Winlaton by Northern Gas Networks in collaboration with Cadent, Keele University, Health & Safety Executive, ITM Power and Progressive Energy
• Kiwa Hydrogen Production Plant by Kiwa

Safety Award

• Cadent with “Changing Safety Culture – East Midlands network”
• Kane International
• Morrison Energy Services with the “Jim Irving: Safety Initiatives Calendar - Embedding a new safety culture”

Young Person’s Achievement Award

• Wing-yee Chan, Professional Engineer at Drainage Services Department, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
• Afsara Chowdhury, Terminal Project Engineer at National Grid Grain LNG
• Daniel Mee IENG MIGEM, Principal Integrity Engineer at Cadent
• Lucy Nembaware, Scheduling Assistant at Morrison Energy Services

Oliver Lancaster, CEO of IGEM, said: “Yet again, we have been inundated with outstanding achievements being delivered across our sector. It’s a pleasure to recognise the efforts and successes from organisations and individuals leading and innovating through today’s engineering challenges and as they explore and deliver our future opportunities, firmly placing our world class gas system at the heart of the energy transition.”

Mike Foster, Chief Executive of the Energy and Utilities Alliance, said: “These awards reflect the efforts our industry is making towards our shared goal of having a secure energy supply, that is affordable and meets our international climate change obligations. As we transition towards net zero, we will need industry players, like these award winners, to deliver for the UK.”