Awards
Australian Energy Producers offers a number of awards recognising outstanding achievement and service to Australia’s oil and gas industry.
Excellence Awards
The AEP Excellence Awards recognise leadership and innovation across Australia’s upstream oil and gas sector, celebrating initiatives that deliver measurable improvements in environmental stewardship, community and social investment, innovation and technology, and safety and wellbeing.
The Australian Energy Producers Excellence Awards recognises the outstanding achievements of Australian Energy Producers members in improving operations for the benefit of the environment, workforce safety, and the communities where we live and work.
For full details on award categories, criteria, terms and conditions, and the application process, please refer to the full Submission Guide.
For more information, please click here or contact email [email protected].
Reg Sprigg Medal
The Australian Energy Producers Board awards the Reg Sprigg Gold Medal to recognise an individual’s outstanding service in promoting the Australian oil and gas exploration and production industry’s objectives.
Introduced in 1989 as the APEA Gold Medal, this award was renamed the Reg Sprigg Gold Medal in 1995 to commemorate the exceptional contributions Dr Reginald Sprigg AO (1919-1994) provided to the petroleum industry as a geologist, company executive and APEA’s founding Chairman.
The Medal honours a lifetime of exceptional leadership and service to Australia’s oil and gas industry, recognising an individual whose contributions have made a profound and lasting impact on our industry and promoted the objectives of Australia’s oil and gas exploration and production sector.
The 2025 Reg Sprigg Gold Medal was awarded to Mr Charles Goode AC, a standout figure whose influence has helped shape the direction and growth of the industry over more than five decades.
For further details, including past winners, see the member portal or email [email protected].
Lewis G Weeks Medal
The Australian Energy Producers Board awards the Lewis G Weeks Gold Medal to commemorate the contribution of Dr Weeks’ pioneering geological work in Bass Strait and its contribution to Australian petroleum exploration.
To be considered for this award, a candidate must have made an outstanding contribution to the art, science or practice of petroleum exploration. Past recipients have demonstrated distinguished service to the industry in the development or application of exploration techniques, or in teaching.
In recognition of a leader whose career has advanced excellence in petroleum exploration and geoscience, Dr Geoffrey O’Brien was awarded the 2025 Lewis G Weeks Gold Medal.
For further details, including past winners, see the member portal or email [email protected].
Honorary Life Members
The Australian Energy Producers constitution allows its Board to award Honorary Life Membership to a person for meritorious or worthy service to the industry, recognising excellence and commitment in striving to meet its objectives, while the Association’s Gold Medals (the Reg Sprigg and Lewis G Weeks awards) acknowledge outstanding leadership and technical excellence.
For further details, including past winners, see the member portal or email [email protected].