31 Mar 2010 - OSL WINS PRESTIGIOUS INTERNATIONAL AWARD
OSL WINS PRESTIGIOUS INTERNATIONAL AWARD
Hull-based gas and oil consultants, OSL, have been voted Yorkshire’s top international performer by a group of influential business organisations.
The company, specialist engineering and project management consultants to the gas, oil and energy industries, has been named ‘International Business of the Year’ in the Yorkshire Enterprise and Diversity Awards 2010.
The awards are staged annually and are sponsored by Business Link, Yorkshire Forward, Excellence in Women’s Enterprise Development and UK Trade & Investment and attract scores of entries from around the Yorkshire and Humber region.
This is one of a handful of accolades bestowed on OSL since it was formed just five years ago. In 2008, the company was voted Small Business of the Year in the Hull Daily Mail Business Awards.
OSL’s recent work in Nigeria on a multi-million pound fuel supply project that will help to improve the lives of tens of thousands of people is understood to have been an important factor in winning the YEDA award.
Nick Jones, director and co-founder of OSL along with Alastair Robertson, described this latest success as a genuine honour and one which would be displayed with pride. He added: “Once the news had sunk in, everyone at OSL was happy for themselves, for their teams and for the company as a whole.
“We are still a very young company but we’ve worked hard to develop a team of very skillful and dedicated people whose job it is to provide our clients with knowledge and skills not held in-house and which are essential if our clients are to take advantage of business opportunities.”
OSL, which formerly traded as Optimus Services Limited, has offices in Hull, Aberdeen and Lagos and currently has a staff of 35 and an annual turnover of £4.5m.
Earlier this year, OSL successfully completed a £400,000 contract to provide the initial engineering design for a new 30 million dollar LPG storage and transport depot at Apapa, near Lagos, for Oando, Nigeria’s largest indigenous oil company. Once completed, the scheme will help to transform the lives of tens of thousands of Nigerians who until now have had to rely on a limited fuel supply consisting mainly of the Government-subsidised household kerosene.
Nick Jones said: “We had to overcome a number of bureaucracy and culture obstacles before we could become established in Nigeria, but now that we have a foot-hold there we are expecting to continue working on the Apapa project, providing more support as it moves in to the construction and commission phases.”
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