2008 Heritage Award
Gordon Sterling, Retired, Shell
Gordon Sterling is a private consultant, having retired from Shell Oil in 2000 after 35 years in the offshore industry. He has worked extensively in the area of offshore systems research, design, construction installation, and project management. He was the offshore manager of deepwater projects at Shell in the 1990’s when many of the TLP and subsea systems were installed in the Gulf of Mexico.
Sterling has served as a board member and president of the Coast Oceans Ports and Rivers Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He represented ASCE on the OTC board for 8 years, serving as OTC chairman in 1998 and 1999. He is also a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Sterling is currently a member of the supervisory board of INTEC Engineering, a consultant to John M. Campbell Company, and a member of the Board of Governors for Region 6 of ASCE.
Sterling received a BS degree from the University of Waterloo and an MS degree in structures from Lehigh University.