2026 Winners

Best Advancement in Maintenance Technology – Midstream

• Elios 3 NDT Inspection Drone – Flyability

Best Catalyst Technology

• Decam low-carbon ammonia technology – Honeywell Technologies and thyssenkrupp Uhde    

Best Completions Technology

• FloTracG™ Ultra-Light Buoyancy Gas Nanoparticle Tracer Technology – QuantumPro, Inc   

CCS/CCUS/Carbon Removal Project of the Year

• The CO₂ Recovery Injection project – ADNOC Gas  

Best Coating/Corrosion Advancement Technology

• Corrosion Inhibitor for Sour Crude (CISC) – Aramco  

Best Controls, Instrumentation, Automation Technology – Upstream

• iTONG™ Intelligent Well Construction Solution – Expro  

Best Controls, Instrumentation, Automation Technology – Midstream

• In‑House Automation and Control System Maintenance Initiatives – ADNOC Gas

Best Controls, Instrumentation, Automation Technology – Downstream

• 3DTRASAR™ Technology for Cooling Water Premium Plus – with deposit sensing and deposit identification – Nalco Water, an Ecolab Company  

Best Deepwater Technology

• SpecStar Elemental Spectroscopy while drilling – Halliburton  

Best Drilling Technology

• iCruise® Force intelligent high-performance RSS – Halliburton   

Excellence in Corporate Culture

• Competence as Culture – Reliance Industries Limited

Best Digital Transformation – Upstream

• Ai Production System Optimization (AiPSO) – ADNOC  

Best Digital Transformation – Midstream

• Physics-Informed Al Gas and NGL Network Production Optimizer – Aramco  

Best Digital Transformation – Downstream

• AI Control Room – Autonomous Operations at Scale – (Borouge) Abu Dhabi Polymers Company Ltd.  

Energy Legal Services Provider of the Year

• Bracewell LLP

Best EOR Technology

• Subsea Water Treatment – NOV  

Best Exploration Technology

• AlphaSight™ – SLB   

Best Outreach Program

• Geoscientists without Borders®- Society of Exploration Geophysicists

Best Health, Safety or Environmental Contribution – Upstream

• Cuttings Management and Recycling System – SLB  

Best Health, Safety or Environmental Contribution – Midstream

• Circular Economy Program Initiatives & Digitalization – Aramco  

Best Health, Safety or Environmental Contribution – Downstream

• CASHE (Change Agents for Safety, Health & Environment) – Reliance Industries Limited

Best Innovation in Pipeline Engineering – Midstream

• Dual Energy Symphony – HPCL-Mittal Energy Limited  

Technology Licensor of the Year

• Lummus Technology

Best Modeling Technology

• Unified Ensemble Modeling – Halliburton Landmark  

Best Oilfield Fluids and Chemicals

• ALARA™ Advanced Low-Aggressive Reservoir Acid – Baker Hughes  

Best Petrochemical Technology

• Novolen® PP technology – Advanced VRC® – Lummus Technology  

Best Pipeline Integrity Technology

• Subsea Automated Pig Launcher – NOV  

Best Production Technology

• ExaCT™ – SLB   

Best Refining Technology

• NovaHP™ naphtha-to-olefins technology – Lummus Technology and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited   

Best Pipeline Rehabilitation Technology

• Integrated Multi-Front Pipeline Rehabilitation Initiatives – Reliance Ethane Pipeline Ltd. 

Energy Project of the Year – Upstream

• North Sea Standardisation Initiative (NSSI) – TAQA Well Completions   

Energy Project of the Year – Midstream

• Integrated Midstream System for Australia’s First Offshore Gas Storage Project – SLB  

Energy Project of the Year – Downstream

• Innovative projects to minimize flare loss and reduce carbon footprint at DTA & SEZ Refinery – Reliance Industries Limited  

Hydrogen Project of the Year

• CHAMP – Clean Hydrogen and Accelerated Mineralization Program – Aramco Americas  

Most Promising Engineer – Upstream

• Pankaj Goel – ExxonMobil Upstream Company  

Most Promising Engineer – Midstream

• Prathesh Selvaraj – Emerson Automation Solutions 

Most Promising Engineer – Downstream

• Sydney Sweet – Lummus Technology  

Lifetime Achievement – Upstream

• Ashok Santra – Aramco Americas  

Lifetime Achievement – Midstream

• Jerry Rau – Jtrain Inc.

Lifetime Achievement – Downstream

• Ujjal Mukherjee – Lummus Technology  

Energy Leader of the Year

• Tayba Abdulrahim Al Hashmi – ADNOC Offshore  

Operator of the Year – Upstream

• ADNOC

Operator of the Year – Midstream

• Energy Transfer

Operator of the Year – Downstream

• Valero