15/05/2026
🏆 We secured five awards!
We’re proud to share our award winners from this week’s IGEM - Institution of Gas Engineers and Managers Gas Industry Awards 2026. This flagship event recognises and rewards the outstanding achievements of individuals and organisations, highlighting highly innovative work and exceptional tale
Our winners are...
⭐ Special recognition: Howard Forster, Chief Operating Officer - for pioneering innovation in methane detection, leakage management, and cross industry collaboration across the UK gas sector.
⭐ Safety: Trailblazing a safety-first culture – with Ripple &Co, to recognise an initiative for transforming process safety learning through an immersive, company wide engagement programme involving more than 350 employees.
⭐ Early Career Achievement – Harveen Matharu, Senior Pipeline Engineer - for her exceptional impact early in her career combining engineering innovation, cultural leadership and future focussed research.
⭐ Engineer of the year: Danny Cheatham, Senior Integrity Engineer – for spearheading the industry’s involvement in developing the National Underground Asset Register (NUAR), going far beyond the scope of his role.
⭐ Net Zero Innovation: The intelligent gas grid - together with Utonomy, DNV, National Gas , SGN, Northern Gas Networks and Wales & West Utilities. Recognising an outstanding initiative for developing an AI driven autonomous network management system to reduce methane emissions, identify faults earlier and increase biomethane injection capacity.
Big congratulations to all of the winners and all of our shortlisted teams and individuals who attended the ceremony. See all the winners here: https://orlo.uk/G0vJb