Chairman’s Anniversary Award
As part of IADC’s 80th anniversary in 2020, we are proud to bring back the Chairman’s Anniversary Award, which recognizes field-based individuals whose efforts have improved performance for their company.
Award recipients must demonstrate how their innovative project or personal effort directly improved performance in one of the following ways:
Eliminating injuries- Enhancing process safety
- Reducing NPT
- Improving equipment reliability
- Increasing efficiency
2020 Award Recipient
2020: Anthony “Tony” Slater of Noble Drilling
Anthony “Tony” Slater, Noble‘s Drilling Superintendent for the Noble Lloyd Noble jackup, was recognized with the IADC Chairman’s Anniversary Award on 6 November at the virtually held 2020 IADC Annual General Meeting. The award is given every five years and recognizes individuals working in the field who have made a direct impact on improving performance for the drilling industry through a project or personal effort.
While introducing multi-machine control, automated drilling controls and wired drill pipe technology to the Noble Lloyd Noble, Mr Slater introduced multiple process safety measures to eliminate incidents and reduce risk potential. Over the past year, he also led the Noble Lloyd Noble team in delivering strong safety and performance results, leading to the rig having zero incidents in the past 12 months.
Previous Award Recipients
2015: Kenny Baker of Cactus Drilling
Kenny Baker of Cactus Drilling received the first IADC Chairman’s Anniversary Award on 5 November 2015 during the IADC Annual General Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
The award was developed to recognize individuals working in the field who have made a direct impact on improved performance for their company, either through a project or personal effort. The first award was given out during IADC’s 75th anniversary in 2015, and it will be given every five years henceforth. IADC received more than 20 nominations for the award, from drilling contractors, operators and service companies around the world.
Mr Baker was recognized for his design and implementation of severe weather shelters on rig sites.
Ed Jacob, 2015 IADC Chairman, presented the award to Mr Baker. “In May 2011, a tornado destroyed Cactus Drilling Rig 117. In the aftermath, Kenny Baker, Drilling Superintendent with Cactus Drilling, designed and helped implement on-location shelters,” Mr Jacob said. “In the years since, many lives have been saved, in no small part due to Kenny’s passion and past efforts. You could very easily make the argument that on-location severe weather shelters have become the new standard during severe weather season for our industry.”