--- title: "Team Pragma shines at Shell Network Partner Awards" description: "Pragma is proud to announce that we have taken two out of five overall award categories and a special recognition award at the 2018 Shell Network Partner" image: https://www.pragmaworld.net/wp-content/uploads/ZooM-8626-e1561456717258.jpg canonical: https://www.pragmaworld.net/team-pragma-shines-shell-network-partner-awards/ url: https://pragma-world.getmd.ai/team-pragma-shines-shell-network-partner-awards/.md last_converted: 2026-10-07T21:31:23.345Z --- # Team Pragma shines at Shell Network Partner Awards April 23, 2019 2018 Shell Network Partner AwardsPragma is proud to announce that we have taken two out of five overall award categories and a special recognition award at the 2018 Shell Network Partner Awards. The Shell Network Partner Awards rewards service providers and third-party contractors for the roles they play in the successful delivery of Shell’s strategic and service delivery goals. Highlighting one of Pragma’s core strengths, our team clinched the Safety & Compliance Super Star and the Awesome Invention awards. **Safety & Compliance Super Star** In this category, Pragma showed its exceptional commitment to HSSE & Compliance for Shell by reducing their loss of primary containment (a pump or tank fuel leak) with a 94% spilled volume, while improving our L3 contractors’ competency and increasing asset integrity. **Awesome Invention** In the Awesome Invention category, our team was recognised for their innovative thinking and commitment to continuous improvement. This award was landed by our Focused Improvement team, when they designed and ensured that Shell’s new customer service units are practical, in line with Shell marketing strategy and supplied within minimal lead time at half the cost compared to older models. **Special Recognition award** Fittingly, Zinhle Boltina, one of Pragma’s asset care schedulers working on the Shell client team, also received a special recognition award for the exceptional work she has done. Zinhle managed to deliver an Opex Plan despite a budget cut and achieving more planned activities than the original target. She did all of this and still produced a saving of R800k on Opex for scheduled services. “We are honoured to receive these awards as confirmation of our commitment to the goals and objectives of our client. I could not have asked for a better team to work with and would like to thank the entire team for their commitment to excellence”, says Hlamarisa Kubayi, Pragma Business Area Manager. For more details about Pragma and our work in the Oil and Gas sector, visit: www.pragmaworld.net. The awards categories included: - **Safety & Compliance Super Star |** Exceptional commitment to HSSE & Compliance for Shell - **Perfect Delivery |** Smart Delivery of work tasks helping Shell to achieve business objectives - **Cost Saving |** Proactive initiatives that have resulted in cost savings for Shell - **Awesome Invention |** Innovative thinking and commitment to continuous improvement - **Women of Excellence |** Women who are specialists in their field and have gone beyond the call of duty to deliver value to Shell ##### Subscribe to our newsletter ##### Tags Awesome Invention Focused Improvement Hlamarisa Kubayi HSSE & Compliance L3 contractors Safety & Compliance Super Star Shell Shell Network Partner Awards Special Recognition award Zinhle Boltina ##### More content ##### AI in maintenance: from CMMS records to better decisions Author | Henk Wynjeterp - Regional Lead – Europe AI is giving maintenance teams new ways to extract, structure and interpret information. 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