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NEWS Night Out Turns To Cash From IADC For The Oil Chaplaincy Trust Ltd The IADC, which recently held its Annual Awards Dinner at Ardoe House, asked its members that night to contribute to two charities. Once again the Oil Chaplaincy Trust Ltd was one of the charities to be supported at the event. The magnificent sum of £4660 was raised for the Trust and the cheque was handed over by Steve Rae of Seawell UK, the current Chairman of the North Sea Chapter of the IADC. He was joined by Roger Hodgson, and John Davies of the IADC. The Trust expressed its very sincere thanks to the IADC for their continuing support which has extended over many years. The UK Oil & Gas Chaplain can be seen shaking hands and receiving the cheque from Steve Rae with left Roger Hodgson and right John Davies.
In accepting the cheque, the UK Oil & Gas Chaplain expressed his thanks to the IADC and all those who contributed so well at the dinner for their continuing support and encouragement for this valuable part of the Chaplaincy's work.
Sparrows safety dividend Rev Andrew Jolly, Chaplain to the UK Oil and Gas Industry, was recently delighted to receive a cheque for £5,000 on behalf of the employees of Sparrows Offshore; the donation is to the UK Oil Industry Chaplaincy Welfare Trust – the only charity dedicated to providing crisis support for current or former offshore employees.
The money was ‘earned’ for the charity by Sparrows employees in the UK through their achievement of safety objectives for 2007. Sparrows’ UK business unit makes an annual £3,000 grant to the charity with the opportunity for employees to earn an additional £5,000 bonus for the charity through the attainment of safety goals. In 2007, the workforce recorded an excellent 17% reduction in incident potential severity, as recorded by the company’s sophisticated incident potential severity measurement system. “I’m extremely grateful to the staff and management at Sparrows for coming up with this scheme to support the Chaplaincy Welfare Trust – and particularly for their success in raising funds,” says Rev. Jolly. “Age and declining health take their toll on so many friends in the industry, and it is important that those of us who are blessed with robust health do all we can to support those less fortunate than ourselves. Charity begins at home and, for us, home is the oil and gas industry.” “Since the introduction of the Sparrows scheme, I’ve made it my business to remind Sparrows employees when I meet them on my twice-monthly visits to offshore installations that, while the most important thing is that they get home safely to their families, there is now an extra incentive to think and act safely at work. There’s more to being a Chaplain in his industry than meets the eye!” The UK Oil & Gas Chaplaincy Welfare Trust provides support in cash and kind to those who have worked in or are working in the UK sector of the Oil and Gas Industry or their immediate dependents who, through illness or injury find themselves with pressing needs. Neil Byiers, a senior offshore supervisor with Sparrows who lives in Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire, was invited to make the presentation on behalf of the workforce following a poll of Sparrows contract managers on the UKCS inviting them to nominate a recognised leader in making workplace safety a reality offshore. “It was an honour to be invited to represent the Sparrows workforce in making this donation,” Neil Byiers said. “I did not realise how much work the Chaplaincy does supporting people who have been forced into early retirement by illness or injury; now I know more, the charity will have my full backing and I hope another Sparrows employee will have the same pleasure I had this year in making a cheque presentation to mark another year of safety targets achieved for 2008.” For more information about the UK Oil and Gas Chaplaincy and its Welfare Trust, visit www.ukoilandgaschaplaincy.com/trust Attached photo caption: Rev Andrew Jolly (centre), Chaplain to the UK Oil and Gas Industry, receives a cheque for £5,000 on behalf of employees of Sparrows Offshore from offshore supervisor Neil Byiers of Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire (right), with Sparrows’ chief operating officer for Europe, Malcolm Wilson (left) looking on. Further Information from:
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The Chaplain recently spent three days on the Talisman Beatrice Alpha. During his visit he was invited to climb to the top of one of the Turbines that have been erected close to the platform as part of the Wind Farm Demonstrator Project..
It was in July 2007, that Talisman installed the second of two 85-metre high, 5MW wind turbines adjacent to their Beatrice field, 25-kilometres off the east coast of Scotland. 
The next time you feel tempted to complain about traffic on your way to work, you can think about Andrew Jolly who spends a chunk of his working time flying in a helicopter across the North Sea. 
Visiting Offshore Europe 2007 was comic Tony Roper who has starred in such TV programmes as Scotch & Wry, Naked Video, Only An Excuse? and Rab C Nesbitt. Tony was playing comic legend Rikki Fulton at Aberdeen's His Majesty's Theatre, in a stage production entitled Rikki & Me. 
The UK Oil & Gas Chaplaincy welcomed four chaplains from the Norwegian Offshore Chaplaincy Service to Offshore Europe 2007 held recently in Aberdeen. The four, all members of the Sjomannskirkens nordsjoprester, took the opportunity to strengthen contacts between the UK chaplaincy service and the Norwegian service. Thanks to an invitation from Shell all were able to enjoy a relaxing moment at the end of the second full day of the event. The Norwegians were also welcomed to the October meeting of the Presbytery of Aberdeen by its Moderator Mrs Maureen Simpson.
Following a request from the Douglas Platform in Liverpool Bay for Bibles for their cabins the local Gideons sprang into action.