EnCana, Lynx Enterprises receive MMS awards

Petroleum News Staff

Gerald ‘Gerry’ Macey, executive vice president offshore and new ventures exploration for EnCana, and Mark Schindler, president and CEO of Lynx Enterprises, have received the Mineral Management Service’s Corporate Leadership Award.

The awards were presented in Houston April 29 by Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Land and Minerals Management Rebecca Watson and MMS Director R.M. ‘Johnnie’ Burton.

MMS said Macey and Schindler were recognized for “exemplary leadership” of the McCovey exploration project on the Beaufort Sea outer continental shelf this past winter. MMS said EnCana and Lynx used “their in-depth understanding of and sensitivity to the Alaska Native subsistence culture” to promote “a Native relations policy that built trust and working relationships with the North Slope communities.”

The agency said Macey’s and Schindler’s leadership roles were instrumental in completion of the McCovey exploration program.