Best Advancement in Maintenance Technology – Midstream

AssurClean – Locus Bio-Energy

ReCAP Emissions Reduction System™ – WeldFit

Best Catalyst Technology

The ECAD™ Platform for Dual Catalyst Systems – ART Hydroprocessing

CRS 41: The ultimate evolution of TiO2 Catalyst for Sulfur Recovery Units – Axens

RELCAT200Y Catalyst Technology for High-Performance Polypropylene Grades – Reliance Industries Limited

RELOX Catalytic Technology for Recycled Nitrogen Gas Purification for PET Resin Production – Reliance Industries Limited

Green and low-carbon catalyst for dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene to styrene – SINOPEC

Best Completions Technology

Sonus acoustic-set liner hanger system – Baker Hughes

Cat^® Fleet Optimizer – Caterpillar

HADES Platform – DarkVision Technologies

Freedom Series Completion System – Downing Wellhead Equipment

NO-Dull Composite Seat Stage Cementer – Halliburton

SmartFleet^® fracture monitoring system – Halliburton

CCS/CCUS/Carbon Removal Project of the Year

Captura’s Direct Ocean Capture (CO2) solution – Captura               

Glacier Carbon Capture Facility – Entropy, Inc.

Gulf of Mexico CCUS Study – Legacy Data. Powered by Machine Learning –  Geoex MCG

CarbonTrace™ carbon verification and soil analysis technology – QuantumPro, Inc.

Enhanced Gas Recovery in the Antrim Shale – Riverside Carbon Solutions LLC

Best Coating/Corrosion Advancement Technology

ER+ Tool – Aramco Americas

Honeywell Corrosion Predict^® Crude – Honeywell

Heat-Flex^® CUI-Mitigation Coatings – Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine

TRU compliance software tool – TRU Solutions

Best Controls, Instrumentation, Automation Technology – Upstream

SmartPOWER™ Engine and Power Management System – Canrig Drilling Technologies

iTONG™ – Intelligent Well Construction Solution – Expro

SmartROS^® Core – Nabors Industries

Automated Depth Estimation for Wireline – SLB

Intelligent Power Management – SLB

Best Controls, Instrumentation, Automation Technology – Downstream

Aspen Virtual Advisor (AVA) for DMC3 – Aspen Technology

ECOMAX^®– EthosEnergy

Experion^® PKS Highly Integrated Virtual Environment (HIVE) – Honeywell Process Solutions

Yokogawa TDLS8200 High Temperature Model – Yokogawa

Best Deepwater Technology

Aptara Christmas Tree – Baker Hughes

REACH wireline-retrievable safety valve – Baker Hughes

EarthStar^® X Near-bit, Shallow and Ultra-deep Resistivity Service – Halliburton

SuperFill™ Glass Seat Diverter Surge Reduction Equipment – Halliburton

Wireline Casing Shear Ram (WCSR-X) – HMH

PowerDrive Orbit G2 RSS – SLB

Best Drilling Technology

ACTIVISEAL: Advanced Controlled Technology for Isolating Fractures in Drilling Operations – Aramco Innovations LLC

i-Trak automated ROP optimization service – Baker Hughes

Red Zone Robotics (RZR) Rig Floor Automation Module – Canrig Drilling Technologies

Cerebro Force™ In-bit Sensing – Halliburton

Flex3W Arabia – Helmerich & Payne

Aegis 3D-Printed Armor – SLB

AI-FIT – Turnco

4D Caliper – WELL ID

DE&I in Energy

Programa de Equidad y Diversidad – Cenit Transporte y Logística de Hidrocarburos

ChampionX DE&I Program – ChampionX

South Ghawar Producing Department Energy Management Team “EnMT” – Saudi Aramco

Innovative Women in Technology Summit – SLB

Best Digital Transformation – Upstream

Integrated Field Development Planning – Halliburton Landmark

Curate 2023.3 – IKON Science

Predictive Driller – Nabors Industries and Corva

FLOCO^® (Field Layout Concept Optimizer) – Deep Seed Solutions, REPSOL SINOPEC Brasil, Shell Brasil, and ExxonMobil

Neuro Autonomous Solutions – SLB

Best Digital Transformation – Midstream

Akselos Structural Digital Twins – Akselos

Combining practices and ways of doing things that result in new techniques, skills, sources of income and/or savings – Cenit Transporte y Logística de Hidrocarburos

Muddy Boots Online – Gas Certification Institute, Muddy Boots

A New Era of High-End Digital Emissions Monitoring Solutions Promoting Efficiency Towards A Lower Carbon Footprint – Saudi Aramco

Sales Gas Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Tool (SMART) – Saudi Aramco and Emerson

Best Digital Transformation – Downstream

Digital PVT analytics platform – Aramco Americas

Imubit’s Closed Loop Neural Network Platform – Imubit

Visual MESA^® Greenhouse Gas Emissions Management – KBC Advanced Technologies, Inc (A Yokogawa Company)

Integration, Automation, Data Management and Collaboration – Reliance Industries Limited

Additive Manufacturing Successful Scale-up in Yanbu Refinery – Saudi Aramco

SciDigital RxTwin – Scientific Design Company

Energy Advisory of the Year

Naithani Oil and Gas

OilX

Save Lake Balkhash International Research Project

The United States Energy Association (USEA)

Worley Group

Energy Legal Services Provider of the Year

Bracewell LLP

King & Spalding LLP

White & Case

Best EOR Technology

First Reservoir-on-a-Chip Nanofluidic Micromodel of Carbonate Reservoir – Aramco Americas

Mobile Downhole High-power Electric Heating/Ignition Technology – China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC)

Application of BEOR Biotechnology and streamline simulation to the pilot project of the Hollin Field, Campo Sacha – University of Central Ecuador

ELEVATE™ Wettability Altering Surfactants for Enhanced Oil Recovery – The Dow Chemical Company

SmartWater Flooding – A Sustainable EOR Technology – Saudi Aramco

Best Exploration Technology

Signature CCUS Workflow – Seismic Data Conditioning –  Geoex MCG

StrataStar^® Deep Azimuthal Resistivity Service – Halliburton

Stress Field Detection – NXT Energy Solutions, Inc.

Oil & Gas Exploration Advisor – Spark Cognition

Automated Lithology – SLB

Best Outreach Program

Artificial Intelligence Energy Camp – Consumer Energy Education Foundation

Energy Venture Camp – Shell USA

Best Health, Safety or Environmental Contribution – Upstream

Spring ARK Anti-Rotation Key (Spring ARK) – Expro

VIGILANCE™ – Intelligent Safety and Surveillance Solution – Expro

Dust Control system on Cementing unit reduces exposure to respirable crystalline silica – Halliburton

PACE HSE+–Teknobuilt 

FLOWSIC100 Flare-XT – SICK, Inc.

Articulating HSE Strategies Through an Integrative Systematic Model – Saudi Aramco

Best Health, Safety or Environmental Contribution – Midstream

C- Siembra – Cenit Transporte y Logística de Hidrocarburos

AI-powered vision for improving monitoring, safety, environmental and operational performance in the oil and gas industry – IntelliView Technologies Inc.

Reduction of flaring – Qatar Energy

‘Let us go home safely’ road safety project – Tristar, in collaboration with the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) of Dubai and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)

Best Health, Safety or Environmental Contribution – Downstream

Bharat Hi-Star Stove: World’s Most Energy Efficient Domestic LPG Cooking Stove – Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited

Situational Awareness Platform – CYBERNETIX

ITW Online Cleaning – ITW

Large-cap Energy Firm of the Year

Harouge Oil Operations Libya

Reliance Industries Limited

Mid/Small-cap Energy Firm of the Year

CO2SeQure and MicroThermal Energy

Merichem Company

Nabors Industries

Innovation in Pipeline Engineering – Midstream

monarch™ OT platform and Continua advanced applications – Aspen Technology

Geohazard Management Strategy – Cenit Transporte y Logística de Hidrocarburos

Dual Power Source System – Dual Drive Technologies

Best Modeling Technology

StimVision™ matrix acidizing software – Baker Hughes

Virtual Reactor Simulation Technology for Vapor-Liquid-Solid Processes – CPFD Software

Foam Modeling Technology for Uniform Subsurface Gas Sweep and Sequestration – The Dow Chemical Company

Advanced Well Engineering DrillScan^® Forced Vibration Module – Helmerich & Payne

Imubit’s Closed Loop Neural Network™ Platform – Imubit

DHTR-SIM^® Renewable Diesel Mode – KBC Advanced Technologies, Inc (A Yokogawa Company)

Reliable and fast conveyance automation with physics models and AI – SLB

Virtuoso Hydrate Blockage Prediction Model – Wood plc

Best Oilfield Fluids and Chemicals

nanO2^® Fuel Enhancer – Canrig Drilling Technologies

Next-Generation Triple Combination Portfolio – ChampionX

AVERT™ Biosurfactant-Based Dispersants Outperform BTEX Solvents and Boost Oil Production – Locus Bio-Energy

A breakthrough in ground water preservation through SAPED’s sustainable water recycling program – Saudi Aramco

EcoShield geopolymer cement-free system – SLB

Best Petrochemical Technology

The association of Axens’ Prime-G+^® and Sulzer Chemtech’s GT-BTX PluS^® – Axens

Lummus’ Net Zero Cracker – Lummus Technology

Verdene™ PP technology – Lummus Technology

Liquid Phase Isomerization (LPI) Technology for Debottlenecking & Energy Saving in p-Xylene (PX) Complex – Reliance Industries Limited

An efficient technology for low-carbon and high-value utilization of CO2: Heterogeneous catalytic process for producing electronic-grade ethylene carbonate (EC) – SINOPEC

Best Pipeline Integrity Technology

Application of advanced analytical models for the prediction of internal and external corrosion in transport pipelines – Cenit Transporte y Logística de Hidrocarburos

SmartPipe^® Replacement of Pipeline in Roanoke County, VA – Enbridge Gas Transmission

Hifi Engineering – Hifi Engineering

Pipe Spring™ – Pipe Spring

TRU’s enhanced Mobile PDF Form Editing Technology – TRU Solutions

Best Production Technology

Sta-Live Extreme™ polymer-free, single-phase delayed acid system – Baker Hughes

Tubox Gaslift System – Blue Earth Energy, Inc.

ClearVision™ – EV

XCEL Integrated Gas Processor (IGP) – Extract Companies

Downhole Self Cleaning Solids Filtering System for Rod Pumping – Oilify / Q2 ALS

Active Seat Gate Valve – Oil States International, Inc.

Best Refining Technology

Polynaphtha™ – Axens 

ISOTERRA – Chevron Lummus Global (CLG)

HP-DWA: A Novel Cost Effective Dewaxing Aid for Propane Dewaxing Unit (PDU) – Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited

UOP LOHC Technology Solution – Honeywell UOP

Development, Commercialization, Scale-up and Upgradation of Benzene Recovery Unit (BRU) – Reliance Industries Limited

Development & commercialization of low cost additive from LPG Merox waste by-product – Reliance Industries Limited

Energy Project of the Year – Upstream

Al Baraka Oilfield Services SAOC – Al Baraka Oilfield Services SAOC

The Archie Initiative – Aramco Americas, Stanford University, University of Calgary, Argonne National Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh

Co-Producing Geothermal Power from Reservoirs – FutEra Power

Merlin™ Deepsea Mineral Riser – Oil States Industries

Hawiyah Gas Storage Energy Conservation Philosophies – Saudi Aramco

Energy Project of the Year – Midstream

Parque Solar San Fernando – Cenit Transporte y Logística de Hidrocarburos

Hydrocarbon Transport Segment – Cenit Transporte y Logística de Hidrocarburos

Energy Project of the Year – Downstream

Decarbonization (Decarb) Project – Malaysian Refining Company Sendirian uop (MRCSB), wholly own by PETRONAS

S-OIL Shaheen Crude-to-Chemicals Complex – S-OIL, Aramco and Lummus Technology

US$4.2 billion Karratha Urea Project in Western Australia – Perdaman Chemicals and Fertilizers 

US$8.4 billion financing of NEOM Green Hydrogen Project – NEOM Green Hydrogen Company (NGHC) 

Most Promising Engineer – Upstream

Shannon L. Eichmann – Aramco Americas

Dr. Muhammad Akram Karimi – Saher Flow Solutions

Mohammed Almuhainy – Saudi Aramco

Ksenia Arkhipova – Shell

Most Promising Engineer – Midstream

Roger Mina Carbonero – Cenit Transporte y Logística de Hidrocarburos

Dr. Kshama Roy – DNV

Most Promising Engineer – Downstream

Colin Bauer – Axens 

Teofilo De Sagun – Bahrain Petroleum Company

Bianca Ulrich – Lummus Technology

Wesam Khalaf Allah – Saudi Aramco

Avinashkumar V Karre – Worley Group

Lifetime Achievement – Upstream

Arthur Hale – Aramco Americas

Dr. Anuj Gupta – Aramco Americas

Ken Fisher – ChampionX

Dr. Peter M. Duncan – MicroSeismic

John Lee – Texas A&M University

Lifetime Achievement – Midstream

Iqbal Z. Ahmed – Associated Group

Hector Manosalva Rojas – Cenit Transporte y Logística de Hidrocarburos

Thomas Bubenik – DNV GL USA, Inc.

Lifetime Achievement – Downstream

Ujjal Mukherjee – Lummus Technology

Dr. Dong-soo (D. S.) Hur – GS Caltex Corporation

Mike Tallman – KBR

Dr. Rakshvir Jasra – Reliance Industries Limited

Virendra Kumar Gupta – Reliance Industries Limited

Robert Ennis – United Refining Company             

Energy Leader of the Year

Emily Ferner – Burns & McDonnell

Sivasankaran ‘Soma’ Somasundaram – ChampionX

Rian Reyneke – KBR

Nasir K. Al-Naimi – Saudi Aramco

Operators of the Year in the Upstream, Midstream, and Downstream sectors will be announced at the Gala on October 11, 2023.