Frontier is pleased to announce the finalists for the Big Five Board Awards 2019. The winners will be revealed at the Big Five Board Awards ceremony on the 21 November in London at The Geological Society which will be attended by senior oil & gas executives from Africa’s oil & gas sector. The annual awards ceremony celebrates the best people and entities active in Africa’s oil & gas sector and +30 individuals and companies have been nominated across five award categories. 

The finalists for the Big Five Board Awards 2019 are:

Distinguished Individual Contribution to the African Industry – Elephant 

• Adrian Bligh, Geoshare/ PGS - a posthumous nomination
• Maggy Shino, Petroleum Commissioner, Ministry of Mines & Energy, Namibia
• Austin Avuru, CEO, Seplat Petroleum Development Company
• Dianne Sutherland, Publisher, Petroleum Africa Magazine

Corporate Contribution to African Petroleum & Excellence – Lion 

• BP
• Kosmos Energy
• ENI
• Petronas
• Chevron
• Shell
• Africa Oil Corp.

Independent Player in Africa of the Year – Leopard 

• Seplat Petroleum Development Company
• Eland Oil & Gas
• Lekoil
• Far Limited
• Chariot Oil & Gas
• Africa Energy Corp. 

Service & Supply Company of the Year – Buffalo 

• Maersk Drilling
• Schlumberger
• CGG
• ION Geo
• SEPCO Industries

African National Oil Company of the Year – Rhino

• ENH
• GE Petrol, Equatorial Guinea
• Petrosen
• ONHYM
• Société Nationale Petrolière Gabonaise

Africa’s Oil Legend Award – Special Category

• Omar Mitha, CEO, ENH
• Patrick Pouyanné, CEO, Total
• Jean-Jaques Koum, Head of Exploration & Production - Oil & Gas Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures (SNH)
• Mamadou Faye, Managing Director, Petrosen
• Pam Darwin, Vice President, ExxonMobil

BIG FIVE BOARD AWARDS CHARITY AUCTION 2019

In addition to the awards ceremony, FRONTIER will also be hosting our annual charity auction. To check out the great items up for auction (most of which have come all the way from Africa), and to make a bid online (for the first time ever in advance of the evening), click here.

Progressive TSL has recently sponsored access to the 'Energy Country Review' resource for students and staff at The Oil & Gas Business School in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. As part of the auction KeyFacts Energy has offered 12 months full access to the ‘Energy Country Review’ online resource for a university selected by the winning bidder.