Imperial Barrel Awards

The Imperial Barrel Awards (IBA) encourages Geoscience graduate students to explore a career in the energy industry by participating in the Award Program.

AAPG’s IBA 2013 Competition – European Region

The 2013 competition for the European Region took place in Prague from the 21-24 March with 19 Universities all competing for the opportunity to present at the finals in PIttsburgh, Pennsylvania USA in May 2013.

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2013 AAPG Imperial Barrel Awards European Regional Finals in Prague last week:

In first place, The University of Manchester (Martin Kennedy, Rhiannon Jones, Heather Wilson, Papi Ogban and Faculty Advisor: Christophe Serié)             

In second place, The University of Leoben (Jan Mayer, Maria Nievoll, Judit Pupos, Bernhard Rupprecht, Anna Irene Stanzel and Faculty Advisor: Doris Reischenbacher)

And in third place, The University of Southampton (Ben Hannam, Alexandra Cookson, Thomas Goode, Alexander Gillespie, Richard Turner and Faculty Advisor: Mark Vardy) 

Congratulations to all the teams that participated this year; it was a fantastic event and a pleasure to meet you all.

A HUGE thank you goes to this year’s judging panel, for their extremely hard work and invaluable contribution to the event. It is not an easy job by any means!

Sue Nicholson, European Geoscience Recruitment Coordinator, ExxonMobil

Jack Russell, Exploration Discipline Lead, Shell

Gretchen Gillis, Geological Specialist, Aramco

Jonathan P Turner, Deputy Chief Geologist, BG Group

Rosalie Constable, Senior Geologist – Exploration, OMV

Simon Grant, Exploration Geologist, BP

Emily Ferguson, Greenland Exploration Team Leader, Maersk Oil Copenhagen

Martin Jakubowski, U.K. Exploration Manager, Nexen Petroleum U.K

Interested in applying for the 2014 Competition? To find out more about the programme visit the website, for any additional information contact AAPG Europe 

Watch our video from IBA 2011 in Prague and see why you should be there…