GPA Europe - Best Paper Awards

This award was initiated in 1998.  There are a significant number of papers presented at GPA meetings throughout the year out of which the best paper of the year award is selected by members of the Programme Committee.

All papers are scored with respect to Technical Content and General Presentation Skills at each Conference by all members of the Programme Committee who are present at the event.

In January of the each year all the marks are reviewed and the Winner is announced.

Past winners are:-

  • 1988 - The Troll Platform – A Concept to Lower Operating Costs Paper presented in Brugge, May 1988 by Gerhard Hajek of A/S Norske Shell Norway
  • 1989 - The Groningen Gas Field Paper presented in Bergen, March 1989 by Ad  van Niewland of NAM Netherlands
  • 1990 - Design and Operation of a Large NGL Recovery Unit Using Plate Fin Heat Exchangers Paper presented in Biarritz, May 1990 by E. Piboubes of Elf Aquitaine France and Henri Paradowski of Technip France
  • 1991 - Recent Developments in British Gas LNG Activities Paper presented in London, November 1991 by D. Roe and C. Pilling of British Gas UK
  • 1992 - Rapid Assesment of Thermally Coupled Distillation Paper presented in London, November 1992 by Adrian Finn of Costain Oil Gas and Process UK
  • 1993 - The Woodside Trunkline Management System Paper presented in Paris, May 1993 by Denis Wills of Woodside Offshore Petroleum, Australia
  • 1994 - Quantity and Quality: The Impact of Change on the UK Gas processing Industry Paper presented  in London, January 1994 by Nicholas Perry of Enron UK
  • 1995 - Sulphur Recovery with Reduced Emissions, Low Capital Investment and Hydrogen Co-Production Paper presented in London, January 1995 by Gavin Towler of UMIST UK
  • 1996 - The UK Network Code Paper presented in Loughborough 1996 by Ian Thomson of Oakwood Consultants UK
  • 1997 - An Overview of the ETAP Development Paper presented in Chester, May 1997 by Alan Henderson of BP Exploration Operating Co Ltd.UK
  • 1998 - Asgard B Process Selection Paper presented in 1998 by Kerry van Son of Mobil Norway
  • 1999 - A New Approach to the Use of Glycol in Low Temperature, High pressure Gas Processing Applications Paper presented in Budapest, September 1999 by Knut Nordstad of Statoil Norway
  • 2000 - Thermo-acoustic Refrigeration Provides an Innovative Solution to Managing the Associated Gas Problem Paper presented in Barcelona, September 2000 by Matthieu Ubas of Gusto NL
  • 2001 - Selective H2S Removal in 50 ms Paper presented in Amsterdam, September 2001 by Finn Nilsen of Framo Purification, Germany
  • 2002 - Technical and Economic Aspects of Electrical Drives for LNG Refrigeration Gas Compressors Paper presented in London, February 2002 by Bob Fallaize of BP Global Technology
  • 2003 - The Nuggets Development-Successful Operation and Plans for the Future Paper presented in Paris, February 2003 by Andy Cripps of Total.
  • 2004 - Xenon Recovery and Purification via Adsorption Paper presented in London, February 2004 by Jim Occhialini of Air Products USA
  • 2005 - Challenges of Small Import Terminals Paper presented in Amsterdam February 2005 by David Haynes of Advantica UK
  • 2006 - Egypt’s Premier LNG Project (SEGAS LNG) Establishes New Industry Benchmarks, presented in Antwerp May 2006 by Martin Mayer of M.W. Kellogg.
  • 2007 - Marrying Two Facilities Engineering Cultures, presented by George Cheriyan of BP TNK, Russia.
  • 2008 - “Isle of Grain: From LNG peak shaving to LNG import”; presented by Eddy Wheeler, CB&I, UK.