The SPIRIT Awards mark 20 years of excellence

By Ray Scippa
Stories of the 2022 SPIRIT Award winners will be told in spiritnow throughout the year ahead.
Team Awards

2021 Market Update Meeting

APLNG Maximizing CFO

DRAGONS

Hybrid Office Work

North Midland Basin Artificial Lift Strategy

Norway Project Execution

ONRR Marketable Condition Settlement

Permian Integration

Shell Permian Acquisition

Tax Policy Strategy Advocacy

Winter Storm Uri Response

Individual Awards
LIFESAVER AWARD

Christer Amundsen

Tord Magnus Kvanvik

Steffen Jakobsen

Jonathan Boone Jr.

Ricky Collins

PROCESS SAFETY AWARD

Michael Home

Nick Enders

DEI ADVOCATE AWARD

Bill Arnold

Jason Parker

Dorothy Colegrove

Fiona McLeod

Rob Gibb

Suzanne Schulte

INNOVATION CHAMPION

Danny Allen

Nico Roussel

In the Fall of 2002, following the merger of Conoco and Phillips Petroleum Co., ConocoPhillips became the world’s fifth largest integrated oil and gas company. Among its first actions, the company established a value statement, using the acronym SPIRIT for Safety, People, Integrity, Responsibility, Innovation and Teamwork.

The new ConocoPhillips logo featured a design element known as The Mark, representing a mark of excellence, and symbolizing a commitment to continuously reach higher levels of performance and innovation.

To recognize outstanding performance by project teams and individuals, the company launched the SPIRIT of Performance Awards.

Over two decades, the SPIRIT Awards have thrived through market ups and downs, mergers, acquisitions, and the 2012 split that transformed ConocoPhillips into the world’s largest independent exploration & production company.

Thousands of employees and contractors have been honored for outstanding performance, saving lives, championing innovation, and lifting up their communities.

When practical, the company celebrates SPIRIT Award honorees in person at events featuring and hosted by musicians, magicians, and once a moon-walking Apollo 12 astronaut.

Chairman and CEO Ryan Lance with 2013 Individual Lifetime Achievement award winner Charlie Hooper
A confetti toast concludes the 2008 SPIRIT Award banquet.
Retired Creative Services Account Manager Kevin Bonny gives the original SPIRIT Award the white glove treatment.
Since 2013, ConocoPhillips SPIRIT of Performance Award teams and individual award recipients receive a red crystal representation of the company's logo mark on a black crystal base.
SPIRIT Award winners are proudly featured in the company’s former magazine and this digital publication, spiritnow .
Apollo 12 astronaut and artist Allan Bean served as master of ceremonies at the banquet in 2014.
On the eve of the company’s 2012 split, Beatles tribute band The Return had banquet attendees dancing in the aisles.
Cassandra Corley accepts the first D&I Advocate Award added to the SPIRIT program in 2019.

In 2022, as the tradition enters its third decade, 11 teams and 15 individuals were selected to receive the coveted SPIRIT Award.

In a video announcing the winners, Chairman & CEO Ryan Lance said, “The heroic efforts of these winning teams and individuals — and indeed the hard work of all our colleagues — contribute to our success and help make us who we are.”