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The chairman and trustees of the Aberdeen Oil Industry Chaplaincy Trust were deeply saddened to announce the death of the Reverend Andrew John Jolly MBE, BD, Cert Min, chaplain to the UK oil and gas industry, in September 2010 following a long battle with cancer. He was 54.

Biography of Reverend Andrew John Jolly......

The Reverend Martin Grashoff has been appointed as chaplain to the UK offshore oil and gas industry. 

He takes up the position on 1 March 2011, moving to Aberdeen with his family from West Kintyre where he is currently minister for the Church of Scotland in the parish of Kilcalmonell, linked with Killean and Kilchenzie.

Mr Grashoff said he was delighted to be appointed chaplain to one of the UK’s largest and most important industrial sectors and very much looks forward to his first trips offshore to meet the people who bring Britain’s oil and gas ashore. 

Should you have any enquiries of a pastoral nature, please do not hesitate to contact the Chaplaincy Administrator Lynne de Boer on tel. 01224 298533 or email