** Awards 2026 now open for entries **
The Pipeline Industries Guild awards are annual, open to all individuals and organisations and to all sectors of the pipeline industry. They are judged by the Guild's technical panels on the following criteria:
- Provide the industry with something it did not have before
- Extend current technology
- Provide possible future applications in cost reduction, improve safety or environmental protection
- Overcome a challenge in application on new or existing technology in a new or existing area
- Provide a reason for the industry to change its modus operandi
Entry Rules
- Please note that for the technical awards, an award entry may be submitted in multiple categories by checking the appropriate boxes on the entry form.
- Please clearly state the project/team name/innovation as you wish it to be referred to throughout the awards, using upper and lower case as you would like it to appear.
- Please note that any supporting information must be emailed separately as per the guidelines on the entry form.
- Entry deadline: 30th April 2026
Please click the links to access:
TECHNICAL AWARDS - 2026 Technical Awards Entry Form – Fill in form
FUTURE LEADERS entry form and guidelines - Future Leaders Award – Fill in form
Award Categories
- Large Diameter Pipeline Technology Award: As with the subsea award, this award, introduced in 1996, is made annually for the most significant contribution made to land-based pipeline technology or its ancillary apparatus. The objective of the award is similarly to promote the development of new ideas in the general field of land-based pipeline technology.
- Utility Pipeline Technology Award: This award, introduced in 2003, is made for the most significant contribution to the utility pipeline technology. The objective is to promote the development of new ideas in the general field of utility pipeline technology. Guild Project Awards, The Pipeline Project Awards: Subsea, Land-based and Utility Pipeline were introduced in 2016 and will be awarded annually. The objective of this category is to recognise and celebrate technical achievement on a pipeline project across all sectors.
- Subsea Pipeline Award: This award is made annually for the most significant contribution to subsea pipeline technology or for the most significant contribution to subsea pipeline projects. The objective is to promote the development of new ideas in the general field of subsea pipeline technology and projects.
- Large Diameter Pipeline Project Award: This award, introduced in 2016, is made annually. The objective of this award is to recognise and celebrate technical achievement on a pipeline project across the land-based pipeline sector.
- Utility Pipeline Project Award: The Utility Pipeline Project Award was introduced in 2016 to showcase technical expertise, achievement and challenges overcome in delivery of utility pipeline projects. Projects may be of any length, any diameter pipe or in any sector, including renewables, unconventional gas, power, infrastructure, gas, water, wastewater, power and IT.
- The iICE Award: The Pipeline Industries Guild launched the iICE award in 2016 inspired by the DNV-OS-F101, the offshore standard for submarine pipeline systems that was issued in 1976. This award category is for the best idea for increasing efficiency and reducing costs and is the first industry award for an idea.
- Health & Safety Award: The award is for a related product or project that showcases a significant step forward in Health and Safety within the pipeline industry either through process and/or product or via people and/or cultural improvement.
- Net Zero Transition Award - Shaping the Future: Following the launch of the Guild's Net Zero Transition Panel, 2024 saw the introduction of a new award category which showcases and recognises the step changes in reducing carbon footprint within the pipeline industry.
- **NEW FOR 2026** Future Pipeline Leaders Award (Member Bands 5 & 6 only): As part of the Guild’s commitment to investing in and developing talent across our sectors, we are introducing a new award category to recognise the “Rising Stars” within our large Corporate Bands. This award will celebrate high-potential individuals in both technical and leadership roles and support their continued development. The winner will receive 5 expert coaching sessions, 1-2-1 interviews with industry leaders focusing on leadership insights, career advice, and sector outlook, and feature in the In The Pipeline online magazine.