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Congratulations 2024 Finalists!

Best Advancement in Maintenance Technology – Midstream
Dually™ Double Block & Bleed Line Stop System – WeldFit Corporation
Enviromech™ Composite Thief Hatch – Encino Environmental Services, LLC
GoVAC® MAX Pipeline Evacuation System – Onboard Dynamics
Mass Deployment of Asset Predictive Analytics – Saudi Aramco
Predictive Maintenance Optimization using AI-powered Sensors and Data Analytics – Boyant Engineering Services Ltd

Best Catalyst Technology
Fourtiva™ – BASF Corporation
FT CANS for sustainable aviation fuel – Johnson Matthey
HP NanoPro – Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd
PARAGON™ – W.R. Grace & Co
SaFeGuard™ – Ketjen Corporation (Ketjen LLC)

Best Completions Technology
9645 MST System – Superior Completion Services, a Superior Energy Services Company
DataSphere® Array – Halliburton
Freedom Series Hot Swap – Downing Wellhead
Hands Free Control Line Clamp System to Remove Red-Zone Exposure – Expro
Hydraulic Port Collar (HPC) – TAM International
PrimeSET Single Trip Liner Hanger – Packers Plus Energy Services
Welltec Expandable Anchor (WEA) – Welltec
Zeus® electric fracturing pumping system – Halliburton

CCS/CCUS/Carbon Removal Project of the Year
STRATOS – 1PointFive
Design of Onshore Terminal for Carbon Capture & Storage – PTT Public Company Limited & Aspen Technology

Best Coating/Corrosion Advancement Technology
AnX Coiled Rod – ChampionX Artificial Lift
HP-TIC – Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd
Pipeclad™ Frac-Shun ERC – Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine

Best Controls, Instrumentation, Automation Technology
ACTIVEHub™ communication and control platform with ACTIVELatch™ technology – Oil States (upstream)
Autonomous well intervention – Aker BP and SLB (upstream)
FlexFusion – Helmerich and Payne (upstream)
Flora ™ automated connection integrity service – Baker Hughes (upstream)
Slick-E-Line® – Paradigm (upstream)
SMARTEN XE ESP Control System – ChampionX (upstream)
Convection Section Cleaning Rover – Integrated Global Services (midstream/downstream)
Honeywell Turbomachinery Advisor – Honeywell (midstream/downstream)
Hybrid Prediction Models in Crude Stabilization Process – Saudi Aramco (midstream/downstream)

Best Deepwater Technology
iNOVaTHERM™ – NOV
Optimized Single-Trip Multi-Zone (OSTMZ™) Sand Control System – Halliburton
SLB iX High Pressure (28.5 KSI) Platform – SLB
TRU-ARMS™ Advanced Reservoir Mapping Services – Baker Hughes

Best Drilling Technology
Brandt Alpha™ Shaker – NOV
Cerebro Force in-bit sensing – Halliburton
ElastiCrete – Aramco Americas
Family of Shaped Cutters Tailored to Hard-to-Drill Applications – CNPC
GeoSphere 360™ – SLB
Predictive Drilling – Nabors Industries and Corva
Wireline Blind Shear Ram – HMH

DE&I in Energy
‘One Team’ ethos – Fulkrum
DE&I program expansion – ChampionX
Employee Engagement – Diversity & Inclusion Program – Saudi Aramco
Growing Responsibilities and Opportunities for Women (GROW) – Sempra Infrastructure

Best Digital Transformation
Centri-FI™ Consolidated Controls Solution – Expro (upstream)
Clariti® Flow and Manage – Halliburton (upstream)
DS365.ai – Halliburton Landmark (upstream)
EWM™: The Extreme Weather Monitoring and Simulation Platform – FENNEX and Noble Corporation (upstream)
Integrated Autonomous Drilling solutions – SLB (upstream)
Intelligent Wellhead Systems Customer Advisory Board – Hess, Chevron, Aethon, Trinity Operating, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Peloton, Oxy (upstream)
Leucipa™ automated field production solution – Baker Hughes (upstream)
Pump Checker software with Gas Lift Analysis Module – ChampionX (upstream)
PipeSentry Suite of Products – PipeSense (midstream)
Protecting our People, Assets & Environment – Unauthorized Work Reporting, Analysis & Monitoring Platform – Saudi Aramco & Aramco Americas (midstream)
Reinforcement Learning Autonomous Optimizer – Saudi Aramco (midstream)
Satelytics cloud-based platform – Satelytics (midstream)
CLARITY™ – Clariant’s Digital Service Portal – Clariant (downstream)
Driving Value Maximization by Digital Transformation at Reliance Jamnagar Manufacturing Complex – Reliance Industries Ltd (downstream)
Honeywell Forge Performance+ Production Intelligence – Honeywell (downstream)
Robotic Inspection for Corrosion Under Insulation – Saudi Aramco and Aramco Americas (downstream)

Energy Legal Services Provider of the Year
Bracewell LLP
King & Spalding
White & Case

Best EOR Technology
Direct Contact Steam Generation (DCSG) to “Recover More, Emit Less™” – GERI (General Energy Recovery Inc.)
Downhole High-power Steam Quality Improving Technology – CNPC
EquiFlow® Density Autonomous Inflow Control Device – Halliburton and Saudi Aramco
Offshore Pressure Boosting Project – ADNOC Offshore
Sustainable Janus Nanofluids from Waste Feedstocks for EOR and Decarbonization – Saudi Aramco

Best Exploration Technology
Constraining hydrocarbon migration and charge by using natural oil tracers – Aramco Americas
FLAGHD – SLB
SFD® – Stress Field Detection – NXT Energy Solutions Inc.

Best Outreach Program
Al-Ahmadi Sports Day & Carnival – Kuwait Oil Company (KOC)
Ras Tanura Producing Department (RTPD) social responsibilities program – Saudi Aramco
Securing Our Energy Future Project – Consumer Energy Education Foundation (CEEF)

Best Health, Safety or Environmental Contribution
Actively C.A.R.E. HSE Campaign – Helmerich & Payne (upstream)
Decarbonization Program – ChampionX (upstream)
iTONG™ Intelligent Well Construction Solution – Expro (upstream)
Manifa Producing Department (MPD) – Saudi Aramco (upstream)
Systems & Methods for Real-Time Offshore Flare Monitoring in Drilling Ships – Saudi Aramco (upstream)
VIGILANCE™ Intelligent Safety and Surveillance Solution – Expro (upstream)
Decarbonization Deployments Project for Hawiyah Gas Plant – Saudi Aramco (midstream)
Human Organizational Performance – S&B Engineers and Constructors EPC (midstream)
Project Analytical Smart Safety Solution Center (PASSSC) – Saudi Aramco (midstream)
Smart helmet solution – ADNOC Offshore (midstream)
OpreX Carbon Footprint Tracer – Yokogawa Electric Corporation (downstream)
Pioneering AI-driven plant video surveillance project with Jio Platforms – Reliance Industries Limited (downstream)

Innovation in Pipeline Engineering
Climate resilience through adaptive geohazard zoning with predictive purposes on the Rights of Way of Pipelines in Colombia Andes Mountains – Cenit Transporte y Logística de Hidrocarburos
Crack Arrestor Design Basis – Pipe Spring LLC
Green Hydrogen & Heat Production Through Pressure Reduction Stations in Gas Pipelines – METRON SA

Technology Licensor of the Year
Honeywell UOP
Lummus Technology

Best Modeling Technology
Barrier Advisor™ Model – Halliburton
Decentralized GOPSs Oil Production Target Distribution Model – Saudi Aramco
Predictive Vibration Mapping – Helmerich & Payne, Inc
Unified Ensemble Modeling – Halliburton Landmark
Welligence Energy Analytics – Welligence

Best Oilfield Fluids and Chemicals
AcidBoost Biosurfactant Technology for Enhanced Wellbore Remediation – Locus Bio-Energy
Aqueous Fluid Solutions – SLB
InvictaSet™ self-regenerating cement system – Baker Hughes
Kerogen Control Fluid – Aramco Americas
PHASETREAT™ NAN – Clariant Oil Services
Spent LIBs into drilling and completion fluids modifiers – Aramco Innovations LLC
SureDcon™ Hydrocarbon decontamination chemistry – Halliburton

Best Petrochemical Technology
Aromatics in Turbulent Fluidized Bed Reactor Highly Generic One-Step Production Technology for Halogenated Aromatic Nitriles: Catalytic Ammoxidation of Methyl – SINOPEC
Thermal Crude to Chemicals TC2C™ – Lummus Technology

Best Pipeline Integrity Technology
Intelligent Surveillance Security Solution – Latium Technologies
L300 Hyper Mobile Electric Natural Gas Compressor – Clean Recompression, LLC
From the Subsurface to Outer Space – Low Earth Orbit IIoT for Sustainability – Saudi Aramco & Aramco Americas
Promioriente’s Early Warning Alerts Project – Promigas

Best Production Technology
3M™ Ceramic Sand Screens – 3M
In Riser Velocity String – Paradigm
IsoRite® Feed-Thru Multilateral Completion System – Halliburton
Logix PLC Vapor Recovery Unit – Flogistix
Multicycle System for Actuated Response (MSAR) – Saudi Aramco and SLB
OmniTrac™ Universal Wellbore Flow Tracer Technology – QuantumPro, Inc
Subsea Production Tree & Integrated Mooring System – Pivotree Pty Ltd

Best Refining Technology
Ecofining™ – Honeywell UOP
eFining™ – Honeywell UOP
Ethanol to sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) – Lummus Technology
FT Unicracking™– Honeywell UOP
HP-NTO – Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
ReOil – OMV and Wood PLC

Energy Project of the Year
Cat® Hybrid Energy Storage Solution – Caterpillar Oil & Gas (upstream)
Element3 – EIC Rose Rock (upstream)
Permian Microgrid Project – Caterpillar Oil & Gas (upstream)
Cedar LNG – Pembina Pipeline Corporation (midstream)
Energy Sustainability by Utilizing Depleted Wells as Gas Storage – Saudi Aramco (midstream)
Green hydrogen pilot for blending with natural gas – Promigas (midstream)
Balikpapan Oil & Gas Infrastructure Project – PT Pertamina (Persero) (downstream)
Effective utilization of energy in Coker Main Fractionator Light Coker Gas Oil (LCGO) Section – Reliance Industries Limited (downstream)
Ras Laffan Petrochemical Project – Qatar Energy, CPChem (downstream)
Unconventional Ammonia Plant to Produce 1000 MTPD of Anhydrous Ammonia using Hydrogen from Methanol Plant and Nitrogen from Air Separation Unit – OQ (downstream)

Hydrogen Project of the Year
50% Acquisition of Blue Hydrogen Industrial Gases Company – Saudi Aramco
CleanH2Pro – Aramco Americas
Feedstock coprocessing in Petcoke gasification – Reliance Syngas Limited
H2 Green Steel – A consortium of lead investors including Hy24, Altor, GIC and Just Climate
MH500, an innovative methane pyrolysis unit – Modern Hydrogen
Midwest Hydrogen Hub – BayoTech

Most Promising Engineer
Stacey Althaus – Aramco Americas (upstream)
Dr. Elizabeth Contreras – Aramco Americas (upstream)
Alexander Patalakha – Shell USA (upstream)
Patricia Zarate – Nabors Industries (upstream)
Bader Inad Alotaibi – Saudi Aramco (midstream)
Mohamed Al Shehhi – ADNOC Offshore (midstream)
Dr. Imran Ulhaq – Saudi Aramco (midstream)
Ayman Amer – ADNOC R&D and KU (downstream)
Abigail Geiger – S&B Engineers and Constructors (downstream)
Anderson Castillo Ramirez – Ecopetrol (downstream)
Alexis Shackleford – BASF Corporation (downstream)

Lifetime Achievement
Prof Angus Jamieson – Helmerich & Payne (upstream)
Bob Judge – HMH (upstream)
Bahman Soleimany – Exploration Directorate-National Iranian Oil Company (upstream)
Mohamed Hanif Ahmed Hussain – ADNOC Offshore (midstream)
Keith Leewis – Leewis and Associates Inc. (midstream)
Douglas C. Osburn III – AUTOSOL (midstream)
Ray Lewis – ROSEN Companies (midstream)
Robert Haugen – Element Fuels (downstream)
Dr. Dong-soo (D.S) Hur – GS Caltex Corporation (downstream)
Stefano Riva – BASF Corporation (downstream)
Dr. Partha P Maitra – Reliance Industries Limited (downstream)

Energy Leader of the Year
Ajay Gami – Lummus Technology
Justin Bird – Sempra Infrastructure
Dr. Rinaldo S. Brutoco – World Business Academy/H2 Clipper, Inc
Chris Caldwell – Hunting Subsea Technologies
Rosette Barias – Lummus Technology
Juan Manuel Rojas Payán – Promigas

Operator of the Year
Chevron (upstream)
ExxonMobil Corporation (upstream)
LLOG Exploration Company (upstream)
Woodside Energy (upstream)
Cheniere Energy (midstream)
Energía Argentina SA (midstream)
Energy Transfer LP (midstream)
Williams Companies (midstream)
BASF (downstream)
Neste (downstream)
Reliance Industries Ltd (downstream)
Saudi Aramco (downstream)