Willy Brandt receives IADC Exemplary Service Award

At the 2016 IADC World Drilling Conference in Lisbon on 15 June, IADC President and CEO Jason McFarland presented an Exemplary Service Award to Willy Brandt, who recently retired from Transocean as VP of Customer Accounts and Advisor to the COO. Mr Brandt has worked in the industry for more than four decades and has held various positions in both headquarters and field assignments in locales such as West Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia and the US. During his career, Mr Brandt served as Chairman and member of the IADC North Sea Chapter from 1990 to 1997 and was a member of the IADC World Drilling Program Committee from 2007 to 2016. He was also a member of the High-Pressure, High-Temperature Workgroup North Sea in 1989 and a member of the IADC Rig Safety Group in 1980. “I would like to thank the IADC to have been given the opportunity to work with great people – great collaboration,” Mr Brandt said. “When I look back, I can only look at it with great pleasure.”