NOIA Outstanding Contribution and Partnership Awards
The design of the Outstanding Contribution and Partnership Awards reflects outstanding achievement in an industry that perseveres in the face of extreme environmental conditions. A powerful storm wave is completely contained within a space defined by a structural stainless steel tetrahedron. The tetrahedron is the strongest and most stable of structures. It represents strength, stability and perseverance and It is made from stainless steel that was laser cut by C & W Industrial for the artist. These elements are anchored solidly on a thick and stable triangular base. The artist, Jim Maunder, carefully selected his materials to represent the elements which characterize the oil and gas industry.
The wave contained within the tetrahedron represents the taming or controlling of adverse elements. It is made of fired clay glazed with blue, sea green, and white.
The base of the award is triangular and anchors the two other elements, the tetrahedron and the wave. This blue grey base is cut from 340 million year old ‘anhydrite’ collected SE of Stephenville. Anhydrite is precipitated on the seafloor when substantial evaporation occurs in restricted ocean basins under extremely hot and arid conditions. It is an important cap rock or ‘seal’ for hydrocarbons that occur in the thick, lower clastic sequences of the Bay St. George Carboniferous basin. This piece of anhydrite has beautiful wisps of white gypsum along fractures on one end that look like froth from ocean waves. The stone was cut by Meyer’s Minerals of Pasadena, Newfoundland.
The design of the Outstanding Contribution and Partnership Awards reflects outstanding achievement in an industry that perseveres in the face of extreme environmental conditions. A powerful storm wave is completely contained within a space defined by a structural stainless steel tetrahedron. The tetrahedron is the strongest and most stable of structures. It represents strength, stability and perseverance and It is made from stainless steel that was laser cut by C & W Industrial for the artist. These elements are anchored solidly on a thick and stable triangular base. The artist, Jim Maunder, carefully selected his materials to represent the elements which characterize the oil and gas industry.
The wave contained within the tetrahedron represents the taming or controlling of adverse elements. It is made of fired clay glazed with blue, sea green, and white.
The base of the award is triangular and anchors the two other elements, the tetrahedron and the wave. This blue grey base is cut from 340 million year old ‘anhydrite’ collected SE of Stephenville. Anhydrite is precipitated on the seafloor when substantial evaporation occurs in restricted ocean basins under extremely hot and arid conditions. It is an important cap rock or ‘seal’ for hydrocarbons that occur in the thick, lower clastic sequences of the Bay St. George Carboniferous basin. This piece of anhydrite has beautiful wisps of white gypsum along fractures on one end that look like froth from ocean waves. The stone was cut by Meyer’s Minerals of Pasadena, Newfoundland.