SPE Ghana Section Awards
The SPE Ghana Section awards recognize members who contribute exceptional service and leadership within SPE, as well as making significant professional contributions within their technical disciplines at the SPE Sectional level.
Section awards are presented at the Annual General Meeting to be announced.
Section nominations require a minimum of one letter of support, maximum of three, to be uploaded by nominators.
Section awards require candidates to upload their CV/Resume or LinkedIn profile.
Awardees cannot nominate themselves.
Criteria can be found below:
Deadline for submission of all required Information/Documents is the 31st July 2024
Please read all instructions carefully before starting the nomination process.

Award Categories
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Technical Awards
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Completions Optimization and Technology Award
The Completions Optimization and Technology Award of the Society of Petroleum Engineers recognizes outstanding achievements or contributions to the advancement of petroleum engineering in the area of completions optimization and technology. This technical discipline covers tubing and casing design, completion equipment, formation isolation, hydraulic fracturing and gravel packing, sand control, acidizing, completions monitoring and optimization, completions evaluation including logging, imaging, and wellbore seismic and fundamental research in completions. -
Data Science and Engineering Analytics Award
The Data Science and Engineering Analytics Award of the Society of Petroleum Engineers recognizes outstanding achievement or contributions to the advancement of petroleum engineering in the area of data science and engineering analytics. -
Drilling Engineering Award
The Drilling Engineering Award of the Society of Petroleum Engineers recognizes outstanding achievement or contributions to the advancement of petroleum engineering in the area of drilling engineering technology. This technical discipline covers drilling equipment, operational environment, downhole operations, site operations, drilling design and analysis, and drilling management. -
Formation Evaluation Award
The Formation Evaluation Award of the Society of Petroleum Engineers recognizes outstanding achievement or contributions to the advancement of petroleum engineering in the area of formation evaluation. -
Health, Safety, and Environment Award
The Health, Safety, and Environment Award of the Society of Petroleum Engineers recognizes outstanding achievement or contributions to the advancement of petroleum engineering in the field of environmental protection, health, or safety in oil and gas exploration, drilling, or production operations. -
Production and Operations Award
The Production and Operations Award of the Society of Petroleum Engineers recognizes outstanding achievement or contributions to the advancement of petroleum engineering in the area of production and operations technology. This technical discipline includes production and injection systems, production enhancement, artificial lift systems, production performance evaluation, special technology applications, oilfield chemistry, multiphase flow in wells, production management, well life-cycle management and intervention.
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Management Award
(Formerly the Economics and Evaluation Award and the Management and Information Award)
The Management Award of the Society of Petroleum Engineers recognizes outstanding achievement or contributions to the advancement of petroleum engineering in the technical discipline of Management. The award will encompass technical contributions in :-
Asset and portfolio management
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Risk management and decision-making
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Strategic planning and management
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Energy economics
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Professionalism, training, and education
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Please note, the award is not intended for:
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Managing people, projects, or organizational units
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General management topics that might be an MBA such as legal, human resources, etc.
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Topics of “interest” to management
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Soft skills, other than in the categories in the taxonomy
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A “miscellaneous” category for topics that don’t fit one of the other technical disciplines.
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Projects, Facilities and Construction Award
The Projects, Facilities, and Construction Award of the Society of Petroleum Engineers recognizes outstanding achievement or contributions to the advancement of petroleum engineering in the area of facilities and construction. This technical discipline includes: process systems and equipment; gas utilization; measurement and control; electrical systems; pipelines and pipeline design; materials and corrosion; solids handling and control; platforms and floating systems; subsea systems; facilities operations; facilities and construction project management. -
Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award
The Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award of the Society of Petroleum Engineers recognizes outstanding achievement or contributions to the advancement of petroleum engineering in the area of reservoir technology. -
Sustainability and Stewardship in the Oil and Gas Industry Award
The SPE Sustainability and Stewardship in the Oil and Gas Industry Award of the Society of Petroleum Engineers recognizes the outstanding efforts and impacts of individuals in the upstream oil and gas industry, in innovating, adopting, and promoting key aspects of sustainable development at scale. The award will encompass:-
Environmental: Environmental sustainability, including protecting or enhancing biodiversity and ecosystems, reducing, or eliminating any form of greenhouse gas emissions, creating carbon-negative solutions, improving water management, or transforming waste to new valuable products or energy.
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Social: Social sustainability, including engaging to create societal and community benefits, environmental justice, human rights, supporting industry staff to build on existing and learn new skills to open new career opportunities, and enabling a fair and just people-centered transition.*
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Innovation/Technology: Innovating to transform the energy system across processes, systems, and technology. It includes environmental and social topics, as well as technological breakthroughs that reduce emissions, eliminate leaks, improve efficiency, enhance profitability and attractiveness, accelerate scaling, and create circulatory use of waste as feedstock. This can also encompass the effective use of data and analytics to improve decision-making, identification, assessment, and reduction of risks, improvements in benefit quantification, streamlining and optimization of materials supply chain, or novel ways to accomplish the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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*A just transition seeks to ensure that the substantial benefits of a green economy transition are shared widely, while also supporting those who stand to lose economically – be they countries, regions, industries, communities, workers or consumers.
2. Section Service Award
Section Service Award
The SPE Service Award recognizes contributions to the Society of Petroleum Engineers that exhibit such exceptional devotion of time, effort, thought, and action as to set them apart from other contributions and thereby create an indebtedness of the Society to the contributor.
The importance of this award shall be maintained by issuance only to those relatively few individuals whose contributions stand out sharply even above the excellence of the services rendered each year by several score members of the Society. However, the above does not preclude the committee of award making more than one nomination annually if it deems such action proper.
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3. Faculty Award
Regional Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty
The Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty, recognizes superior teaching, excellence in research, significant contributions to the petroleum engineering profession, and/or special effectiveness in advising and guiding students.
4. Public Service Award
Section Public Service Award
The Public Service Award recognizes distinguished service to country, state, community, or public, with respect to local custom and considering the different cultural perceptions of public service, through excellence in leadership, service, or humanitarianism, provided the service is over and above requirements of employment.
5. Young Professional Service Award
Section Young Professional Outstanding Service Award
The Young Professional Service Award of the Society of Petroleum Engineers recognizes both:
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Excellence and leadership in service to the public and the community, in accordance with local customs.
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Service to the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the profession of petroleum engineering, or the petroleum industry.
6. Corporate Award
Section Distinguished Corporate Support Award
The SPE Regional Distinguished Corporate Support Award recognizes outstanding support by an organization and distinguished service to SPE members in the region through excellence in leadership and through the commitment of time, energy, and professional resources. Its intent is to recognize companies that help make contributions to the support of SPE membership, programs, and events and not solely through financial assistance to the Society or the petroleum industry.
The SPE Regional Distinguished Corporate Support Award is the only award in the SPE Awards Program that is awarded to a group versus an individual. Nominations may be submitted by an employee of the company to be considered, or by any other SPE Member.