Network Initiative of the Year
This category celebrates excellence in a network business where an initiative delivers outstanding results. This could be a success story about anything whether it is innovative asset management, engineering, IT system development, project management, a new energy initiative or customer focus.
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OMV New Zealand
Pohokura pipeline
winner
Network Initiative of the Year
New Zealand Energy Excellence Awards 2021
While most of NZ's population isolated at home during COVID-19 lockdown, 80 people created a unique isolation bubble on the Normand Baltic ship off the Taranaki coast. They were repairing the undersea pipeline supplying 20% of NZ's gas.
It was a world-first - a gas pipeline had never been repaired this way underwater and certainly not with COVID-19 restrictions. A year in the planning, the project's multiple innovations spanned engineering science, technology, process, human resources and stakeholder engagement.
Completed successfully and safely, a week ahead of schedule, OMV has created a bank of learnings for global initiatives of this nature.