NEW JUDGES JOIN DELOITTE ENERGY AWARDS PANEL

Two new faces have joined the judging panel for the 2011 Deloitte Energy Excellence Awards.

Concept Consulting director and former Contact Energy chief executive David Hunt joins the seven-member team along with Petroleum Exploration and Production Association chairman and former L&M Energy executive John Bay.

The judging panel will again be chaired by Greenstone Energy director and former BP New Zealand managing director Peter Griffiths. The other judges are Hewlett Packard Asia-Pacific utilities director John Hancock, Sapere Research Group director Toby Stevenson, Freeman Media managing editor Matt Freeman and John Kidd, head of research at McDouall Stuart.