The Ben Osuno Pioneer’s Award is named in honour of Ogbueshi Ben Osuno in recognition of his pioneering contributions to the Nigerian oil and gas industry. The Award recognizes and celebrates excellence and outstanding contributions by an individual member or a team, or a corporate member, for pioneering activities in the field of the earth sciences in general, and the Nigerian Oil and Gas/energy industry.

The award honours members who by their individual or collective actions, have demonstrated exceptional creativity, innovation and leadership, in proposing, pioneering and/or transforming approaches to major challenges in the oil and gas industry or the academia, or in the field of research, or application of research, or education, or technology, or publications, or products and services, or administration, or operations, or government policy and advocacy. This award is NAPE’s second most distinguished award, second to the Aret Adams Award.