Credibility, respect, honesty and comradeship are just some of features for which the Institute received an award in the prestigious 2010 edition of a Great Place to Work competition. It was the second time the Institute had won this award. The rankings on the prestigious Great Place to Work Poland 2010 list emerged after over forty thousand employees had been surveyed.
For solutions presented at international exhibitions for innovations and invention solution in the years 2008-2015, the Oil and Gas Institute obtained more than 400 medals, diplomas, awards and special prizes. Inventions of the Institute were awarded at exhibitions in such places as: Brussels, Nuremburg, Moscow, Budapest, Geneva, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, Sevastopol, Zagreb, Bucharest and Warsaw. The Institute has been awarded diplomas three times by Minister of Science and Higher Education for special activity in the promotion of inventions abroad.
In the INNOVATION LAUREL 2012 competition, organised by the Polish Federation of Engineering Associations – NOT, in the Ecology, Surveying, Water Management category, the Oil and Gas Institute received a Gold, Silver and Bronze Innovation Laurel.
In 2010, the Jury of Polish Promotional Emblem (Polskie Godło Promocyjne) awarded the Institute with the Polish promotional emblem „Teraz Polska” in III edition of the Innovative Projects competition. The award was granted for a technology called “Modified catalytic hydrogen process for the regeneration of waste oils”, which was implemented on an industrial scale in 2008 in the Rafineria Nafty Jedlicze SA oil refinery. The technology also received a distinction in the Polish Product of the Future competition and a Gold Medal at the POLEKO 2008 International Fair in Poznan.
In December 2012, Bureau Veritas Certification Poland awarded to the Institute the Excellent Quality Organisation 2012 prize. This prize is a special title awarded to those organisations which especially take into consideration quality, safety, environmental protection and social responsibility aspects in their activities. The basis for the award involves satisfying ten demanding criteria developed by the auditors of Bureau Veritas Certification.
In 2010, The Oil and Gas Institute won the Business Cheetahs (Gepardy Biznesu) statuette, counting it among the most dynamically developing companies in the Małopolskie (Lesser Poland) Voivodeship.
The 10th edition of the Business Gazelles (Gazele Biznesu) Competition, organized by the Puls Biznesu (Business Pulse) magazine, earned the Institute a distinction in the ranking of voivodeships, when it achieved the top position from among all the institutes to be ranked on a nationwide scale.
In 2007, the Institute won an award in the Minister of Environment’s Geology 2007 competition. The award was granted for the CO2 sequestration technology developed under the direction of Professor Jan Lubaś, DSc Eng, of the Institute’s Krosno Branch and in collaboration with the PGNiG SA (Polish Petroleum and Gas Production) branch in Zielona Góra.
The Oil and Gas Institute, together with Biatel Info Automatyka SA, won the Grand Prix at the 11th International Oil and Gas Fair 2006, for the high technical level and modernity of its ANAT-M automatic analyzer of THT in gas. The THT ANAT-M analyzer also received the prestigious Polish Chamber of Commerce Chairman’s prize.