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Two short films produced by Myriad Global Media for Maersk Oil and Qatar Petroleum (QP) have received international recognition, scooping top awards at this year's WorldFest in Houston and World Media Festival in Hamburg.

WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, now in its 44th year, is the oldest independent film and video festival in the world, while the World Media Festival is an international competition for audiovisual communications media, founded in 2000.

Myriad Global Media’s managing director James Thompson was on hand to pick up six awards at WorldFest 2011 following on from the success of Worldfest 2010 where Myriad received five awards. Myriad made a clean sweep in the Energy / Nuclear Issues category taking all the top awards with First Oil Ghana’s Jubilee picking up the Special Jury Award; a Platinum Award for The Challenge of Al Shaheen; a Gold Award for Setting a New Standard and a Silver Award for A Firm Foundation.

Myriad Global Media can assist you with the complete process of communicating your particular message at every stage, from the development of a strategy and a project identity, through capturing key milestones on high definition video and photography in remote and difficult locations, animating technical processes and unseen technologies and eventually editing stunning films, interactives and web clips.

HSE and Asset integrity are issues of paramount concern to operators worldwide, none more so than at PDO’s new Harweel site in Oman. Having previously produced a multi award-winning safety drama ‘Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow,’ Myriad Media is now in production on a project documentary and safety induction film for the Harweel EOR site.

With the conference season getting into high gear Myriad has been working on 3 distinctive exhibition projects for Fluor, FMC Technologies and RasGas. These will be first screened at Gastech in March and OTC in May.

Myriad Global Media’s latest high-profile initiative is getting Anadarko, Tullow and Kosmos on to the front cover of one of the industry’s most popular publications, Offshore Magazine. 

In May 2010, in preparation for the documentary created for Maersk Oil in Qatar, shown at the ADIPEC conference in Abu Dhabi, The Challenges of Al Shaheen, Myriad’s Managing Director James Thompson interviewed His Excellency Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah, Qatar’s Energy and Industry Minister. James also spoke to Saad Al Kaabi, the Director of Oil and Gas Ventures at Qatar Petroleum. The documentary film of Qatar’s offshore field, Al Shaheen: Setting a New Standard, is featured on the Video Production page of Myriad’s site.

In September MGM created films for Afren to show case their Ebok and Okoro field developments, offshore Nigeria to the investment community during their quarterly results presentation. We won’t claim all the credit but their share price seemed to reflect a general satisfaction with the presentation.

When the Nexen Golden Eagle Project team needed a new logo for their project development in the UK sector of the North Sea, Myriad Global Media was asked to deliver a series of logos and a brand identity guide for the operator, Nexen, that could be applied across multiple platforms including print, project items, the web, TV and project gifts.

In November of 2010, the audience at the ADIPEC Conference in Abu Dhabi got to see the fruits of our work for Maersk Oil and their ground-breaking Al Shaheen project in Qatar.

Myriad Media recently created a 45-second advert for Maersk Oil, which was prominently displayed on the large mobile screens at the Qatar Masters Golf Tournament. 

For a year, Myriad Global Media’s China based film crews have been covering the impressive Chuandongbei gas project in Sichuan Province, in South Western China.

The inauguration event for the Jubilee oil field in Ghana saw a 20-minute documentary created and produced by Myriad Media for the occasion.

Myriad Global Media has expanded across the Atlantic, opening up a satellite
branch in Houston, Texas, in late 2010.

Filming offshore in the Gulf of Mexico is not always plain sailing but our Houston team are used to the unpredictability of the weather and last minute changes of plan.  Offshore on ATP’s Mirage Development, our crew captured the installation, hook-up and first Oil, and technicalities of the innovative MinDOC 3 Hull.