Platts Bestows its Global Lifetime Achievement Award to Lord Oxburgh of Liverpool, Former Shell Transport and Trading Chair

Platts Bestows its Global Lifetime Achievement Award to Lord Oxburgh of Liverpool, Former Shell Transport and Trading Chair

November 16, 2007

Exec, Academic and Scientist Known for Industry
Innovations, Advocacy of Climate Change Issues

    NEW YORK, Nov. 16 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Platts, the
world's leading energy information provider, today
announced it will award the 2007 Global Energy Lifetime
Achievement Award to Lord Ernest Ronald Oxburgh of
Liverpool, former Shell Transport and Trading chair,
industry innovator and current member of the advisory board
of Climate Change Capital, a leading investment banking
group specializing in the commercial opportunities created
by a low carbon economy.

    As a scientist, Oxburgh established the Oxford Heat
Flow Group, devised methods of measuring terrestial heat
flow and spurred innovation at Imperial and Oxford
Universities. 

    The award will be presented on stage at the 9th annual
Global Energy Awards, November 29, Cipriani Wall Street,
New York, New York.     

    "Even in the early 1970's, Lord Oxburgh was
talking about renewable energy and clean coal technologies
-- as a real beacon of advocacy," said Victoria Chu
Pao, Platts president.  "His sustained vision on
sustainability issues is an inspiration, and his prescience
has been rewarded by an international panel of judges
comprising the energy industry's elite.  Lord Oxburgh is a
true visionary."

    Lord Oxburgh, an active parliamentarian, chaired the
Science and Technology Select Committee from 2001 to 2004,
and is vice chairman of the Globe UK Group and treasurer of
the Earth Sciences Group.  He is a former chief scientific
adviser to the Ministry of Defense.  Lord Oxburgh has been
rector of Imperial College London and professor of
mineralogy and petrology at Cambridge University.  A
graduate of the Universities of Oxford and Princeton,
Oxburgh is a Fellow of the Royal Society. 

    "Judges were impressed by his status as a
trailblazer, but also by his sense of ethics -- ethical
standards that led him to warn of the potential
environmental damage from the global hydrocarbons industry
even while serving as chairman of one of the world's
largest oil companies," said Pao.

    "Like past finalists and winners of Platts Global
Energy Awards, Lord Oxburgh's career illustrates true
innovative spirit and enduring commitment to world
citizens, customers, shareholders, and the industry as a
whole."

    Sponsors for the event include Capgemini, as a
principal sponsor for the fifth year, and Bracewell &
Giuliani, co-sponsor for the second year.  Other sponsors:
Standard & Poor's, Panasonic Tough Book, and Spectra
Energy.

    The Platts Global Energy Awards were established in
1999 to recognize outstanding achievement in the energy
industry. The annual ceremony singles out the energy
industry's top performers, recognizing corporate and
individual achievement, innovation and entrepreneurship. 
International judges have included former OPEC energy
ministers, national regulators, heads of major energy
companies, leading academics and legislators.

    Accredited journalists are welcome to be Platts guests
at the awards ceremony as well as the Platts Lecture, which
occurs earlier in the day.  The Platts Lecture will address
"Climate, Energy and the Climate for Energy" and
feature two guest speakers.  Television cameras welcome. 
To register, go to http://www.globalenergyawards.com, or
contact Kara Harrell at 817-244-9978.

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