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Best Advancement in Maintenance Technology
Cornflake – Robot for surface infrastructure inspections – Promigas, Gases de Occidente and Transmetano
Data-Driven Maintenance Strategy Based on Energy Efficiency Metrics – Cenit Transporte y Logística de Hidrocarburos
Enviromech™ Composite Thief Hatch – Encino Environmental Services, LLC.
Inlet Integrity Program – Nalco Water, an Ecolab company
ISOMAG Magnetic Rotary Seal Bearing Isolators – ISOMAG Corporation
Best Catalyst Technology
BHARAT Bottoms Cracking Additive (BHARAT BCA) – Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited CRDC
Butene skeletal transformation catalyst with low yield of by-produced oil – SINOPEC
Innovative Chromium-Free HySat Catalyst Platform for Hydrogenation Processes – Clariant AG International
LCH™ technology – Johnson Matthey
StyroMax™ UL-100 high activity styrene catalyst for ultra-low SHR operations – Clariant Corporation
Best Completions Technology
AMP All-Electric Interval Control Valve (e-ICV) – Weatherford
CoilFUSE™ – NOV
EcoReach – Superior Energy Services
Electris™ completions – SLB
FlexRite® selective access (SA) multilateral completion system – Halliburton
Hands Free Completion Running System – Expro
PerfTrac™ Perforation Flow Efficiency Tracer – QuantumPro, Inc. in collaboration with GEODynamics and True Oil, LLC.
Redline+ Packing – GD Energy Products
CCS/CCUS/Carbon Removal Project of the Year
CHAMP – Aramco Americas
Enzyme Assisted CO2 Capture Technology (eCO2Sorb) – Indian Oil Corporation Limited
Green Rig Sustainability Approach Towards Carbon Emission Reduction – Kuwait Oil Company (KOC)
Oil States CCS Netherlands Project – Oil States
Bio-Energy Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) project – Stockholm Exergi
Best Coating/Corrosion Advancement Technology
CorrosionRADAR LR CUI Risk Monitoring Solution – CorrosionRADAR
Heat-Flex® AEB – Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine
MPAC (Multi-Pipe Azimuthal Corrosion Tool) – GOWell International, LLC
TK™-Drakōn – NOV Tuboscope
VENUS: Robotic CUI Inspection Platform – ARIX Technologies
Best Controls, Instrumentation, Automation Technology (Upstream)
AnyCem® automated cementing system – CNPC Engineering Technology R&D Company Limited
Hummingbird all electric-land cementing unit – Baker Hughes
InjectRT™ intelligent chemical treatment optimization service – Baker Hughes
OCTIV® Auto Frac service – Halliburton
Sense & Dispense remote chemical injection and monitoring system – ChampionX
Titan™ with Brandt AI – Autonomous Centrifuge System – NOV
Best Controls, Instrumentation, Automation Technology (Midstream)
Automated Pipeline Rate Assist (APRA) – Expro
Full Autonomous Operation of Crude Oil Plant – Saudi Aramco
PICO with Bifold Manifold – Rotork
Best Controls, Instrumentation, Automation Technology (Downstream)
Aspen GDOT™ Dynamically Optimizes Production at Borouge Olefins Complex – Borouge & Emerson’s Aspen Technology business
CENTUM VP R7 – Yokogawa
Integrated Electrical Automation and Energy Management System – Reliance Industries Limited
iTHERM SurfaceLine TM611 Surface Thermometer – Endress+Hauser USA
Best Deepwater Technology
Blackhawk® Gen III Top-Drive Cement Head – Expro
EcoStar® Electric Tubing-Retrievable Safety Valve (eTRSV) – Halliburton
Optimized Single-Trip Multi-Zone (OSTMZ™) Sand Control System – Halliburton
Well Radar™ – SLB
Best Drilling Technology
AgitatorX2 System featuring AgitatorZP (Zero Pressure) – NOV
Cat® Dynamic Gas Blending™ Gen 2 Kit – Caterpillar Oil & Gas
Gen-X Quintuple Wireless Cement Head w/ Skyhook – Expro
GuardVibe™ high-frequency torsional oscillation dampener – Baker Hughes
FlexRobotics – H&P
GXP Annular Blow Out Preventer – HMH
iCruise CX – Halliburton
SentinelCem™ Pro cement system – HALLIBURTON
Stream™ – SLB
Excellence in Corporate Culture
Breaking Barriers: Advancing Gender inclusion in Refining Operations – Reliance Industries Limited
Energía – Cenit Transporte y Logística de Hidrocarburos
PATHS program and the MindFULL learning brand – S&B Engineers and Constructors
WeLead – Building future leaders through Mentoring – SLB
Best Digital Transformation (Upstream)
Automated Drilling Mud Report Using Generative AI – NOV
CENTRI-FI™ Consolidated Controls Solution – Expro
Leucipa™ Field Optimize – Baker Hughes
Pix Safety, Pix Flight, Pix Blue and Idexa – Pix Force
Real-time Well Engineering (RTWE) – Halliburton Landmark
Best Digital Transformation (Midstream)
Ecolab Heat Exchanger IQ (formerly known as OMNI Heat Exchanger Intelligence) – Nalco Water, an Ecolab company
Enterprise Risk Management Information System for (KPC) and its Subsidiaries (ERM IS) – Kuwait Oil Company (KOC)
PipeTest HydroView – PipeSense, LLC
SEA.I – Saudi Aramco
SEA.I – Saudi Aramco
VR-based training program for field and control room operators – Promigas, Gases de Occidente and Transmetano
Best Digital Transformation (Downstream)
BPMARRK® 2.0 – Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited
Electrical Equipment Performance Management (EEPM) Digital Platform – Reliance Industries Limited
Integrated Planning Tool – Indian Oil Corporation Limited, Aveva Group plc & Accenture Solutions Private Limited
Acuity Process Twin Pro – KBC (A Yokogawa Company)
Operations Copilot – Saudi Aramco
Solyntek AI – Solyntek
Visual MESA Greenhouse Gas Emissions Management (VM-GEM) – KBC (A Yokogawa Company)
Energy Legal Services Provider of the Year
Bracewell LLP
King and Spalding
White & Case
Best EOR Technology
Creation and Applications of Highly Efficient Mixtures of Anionic-Cationic Surfactants for Chemical EOR (CEOR) in Mature Reservoirs – Sinopec
Key Technique of Heavy Oil Thermal Recovery with Combined Gas Injection – CNPC
Magnetically enhanced oil recovery – Saudi Aramco
Best Exploration Technology
ARTEMIS – Aramco Americas
EarthStar® 3DX – Halliburton
ELITE Composition™ – Expro
High-Throughput Whole-Core HSR-NMR Scanner for Continuous Water and Oil Saturation – Aramco Americas
OnWave™ Autonomous Logging Platform – SLB
Ultra-Deep Coring Technology for 10,000-Meter Formations – CNPC Chuanqing Drilling Engineering Company Limited and CNPC USA Corporation
Best Outreach Program
Ahmadi Sports Day 2025 – Kuwait Oil Company (KOC)
Fueling the Future Camp – Consumer Energy Education Foundation
Green Gas Alliance – Promigas, Gases de Occidente and Transmetano
Summer Training Program for High School Students – SASREF
Best Health, Safety or Environmental Contribution (Upstream)
Flare Gas Optimization Using Nitrogen – Saudi Aramco
Green Rig Sustainability Approach Towards Carbon Emission Reduction – Kuwait Oil Company (KOC)
HydraSOLV – Aramco Americas
Low Impact Workover Package (LIWP) – Oil States
O-Next® – Tubos Reunidos Group, S.L.
Smart Catwalk Safety and Surveillance Solution – Expro
Spring ARK Anti-Rotation Key – Expro
Geopolymer Cement Projects – Saudi Aramco
VIGILANCE™ Intelligent Safety and Surveillance Solution – Expro
VIVAZ – Clariant Oil Services
Best Health, Safety or Environmental Contribution (Midstream)
Capacity Indexes – John Bolt, S&B Engineers and Constructors
SusTECnible Stations program – Cenit Transporte y Logística de Hidrocarburos
Co2rozo – Nature-based solution (NbS) for carbon management and sustainable development in Colombia – Promigas, Gases de Occidente and Transmetano
Evapotranspiration Beds – Cenit Transporte y Logística de Hidrocarburos
Supply Planning & Scheduling Organization (OSPAS) – Saudi Aramco
Best Health, Safety or Environmental Contribution (Downstream)
Mision Guajira – Promigas, Gases de Occidente and Transmetano
OSPAS’s Innovative Pipeline Solution – Saudi Aramco
Risk Pulse – Reliance Industries Limited
Innovation in Pipeline Engineering (Midstream)
PigCAM® – EV Cameras
Remote Operated Inline Isolation Tool – Pipeline Ultraisolation, Group (PLUG)
Technology Licensor of the Year
Lummus Technology
Merichem Technologies
Saudi Aramco Licensing Group
Best Modeling Technology
OptiPlant 3D Layout™ – Emerson’s Aspen Technology business
Automated CT Pipe Design Optimizer – SLB
Consultative AI Customized Models – ChampionX
Crude True Corrosivity Model – Reliance Industries Limited
Lost Circulation Wizard™ software – Halliburton
Scalable Earth Modeling – Halliburton Landmark
Understanding Flow in Nano-Pores & Its Impact at the Reservoir Scale – Aramco Americas
Best Oilfield Fluids and Chemicals
BaraXtreme® Nano high-performance fluid system – Halliburton-Baroid
Cost-Effective Single-Phase Acid for Carbonate Stimulation – Aramco Americas
HSCI38130A solution – ChampionX
MICROS-HEAL – Aramco Innovations LLC
OpenPath Flex: Breaking barriers in Carbonate Stimulation with optimized efficiency – SLB
Best Petrochemical Technology
Arsenal Plus – Caustic Tower Optimization – Nalco Water, An Ecolab Company
EDHOX™ Technology – Linde Engineering and Clariant Corporation
Novel Adsorption Process for Online Purification of Thermic Fluids – Reliance Industries Ltd.
Short Residence Time Electric (SRT-e) Heater – Lummus Technology
Best Pipeline Integrity Technology
FLO ULTIMA heavy crude drag reducing agent (DRA) – Baker Hughes
High fidelity distributed sensing (HDS) for pipeline monitoring – Hifi
A scoring and classification model to Highlight the Threat of Circumferential Stress Corrosion Cracking (CSCC) with Advanced Inline Inspection Tools – T.D. Williamson
Project to assess the impact of hydrogen blending on the mechanical integrity of aging steel pipelines – Promigas, Gases de Occidente and Transmetano
Patent for Pipelines Scale Detection by Thermal Conductivity Principle – Saudi Aramco
Best Production Technology
FloTrac™ Ultrahigh-Resolution Nanoparticle Tracers – QuantumPro, Inc. in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) FORGE Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) Project
FusionPro™ intelligent production drive (IPD) – Baker Hughes
Light String Unit – SLB and Equinor
PetroGuard ACE™ (Active Control Enabled) SmartWell® Sand Control System – Halliburton
Pump Checker’s Lift Advisor artificial lift method recommendation solution – ChampionX
QPulse™ – Expro
Reda™ Agile™ compact wide-range ESP system – SLB
Well Manager™ (LWM) 2.0 with NOVAWAVE™ Advanced Wave Equation Technology – Lufkin Industries
Best Refining Technology
3D TRASAR for Crude Overhead Systems Premium – Nalco Water, An Ecolab Company
CDDME for Renewable Dimethyl Ether Production – Lummus Technology
indDSK® – Indian Oil Corporation Limited
IR800 Analyzer – Yokogawa
RelFarmS – Reliance Industries Limited
Energy Project of the Year (Upstream)
Cat® Dynamic Gas Blending™ Gen 2 Kit – Caterpillar Oil & Gas
EOG–ADNOC Concession for Unconventional Block in Abu Dhabi – EOG Resources
Hawiyah Unayzah Gas Reservoir Storage Project (HUGRS) – Saudi Aramco
The Archie Initiative – Aramco Americas, Stanford University, University of Calgary, Argonne National Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh
Underbalanced Coiled Tubing Drilling (UBCTD) – Sharjah National Oil Corporation (SNOC)
‘Zero’ Flaring Design on MJ Ruby FPSO Deepwater Operations – Reliance Industries Limited
Energy Project of the Year (Midstream)
Initial Integrity In-Line-Inspection Data Review of A New Pipeline – JLM Consulting
SPM (Single Point Mooring) Valeria – Cenit Transporte y Logística de Hidrocarburos
Energy Project of the Year (Downstream)
Acelen – KBC (A Yokogawa Company)
The Acrylics/Oxo Alcohol Project – Indian Oil Corporation Limited
Refinery and petrochemical project in Gulei, China – Saudi Aramco and Sinopec
Solar-Wind-Energy Storage (SWES) for Net Zero Retail Outlet – Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited
Hydrogen Project of the Year
Neoform H2 – Aramco Americas
Petcoke Gasification complex – Reliance Syngas Ltd.
Most Promising Engineer (Upstream)
Fatimah H. AlNasser – Saudi Aramco
Khawlah Alanqari – Saudi Aramco
Muhammad Abou Amad – ADNOC Offshore
Pankaj Goel – ExxonMobil Upstream Company
Rostyslav Dolog – Aramco Americas
Sara Alkhalaf – Saudi Aramco
Most Promising Engineer (Midstream)
Abigail Reed – S&B Engineers and Constructors
Austin Hodges – S&B Engineers and Constructors
Bader Inad Alotaibi – Saudi Aramco
Josiah Soo Tot – ExxonMobil Pipeline
Ramprasad Kamisetty – Flowchem LLC
Most Promising Engineer (Downstream)
Abhik Banerjee – Lummus Technology
Ajay Khande – Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited CRDC
Alexis Shackleford – BASF Corporation
Cody Penick – Lummus Technology
Lifetime Achievement (Upstream)
Dr. Ashok Santra – Aramco Americas
Keith Blaschke – Halliburton Energy Services
Michael Eugene Hogan – Oil States
Robert van Kuilenburg – Noble Corporation
Ronald R. Johnson – ExxonMobil
Wei Wang – Aramco Americas
Lifetime Achievement (Midstream)
Angus Bowie – STATS Group
Fatima Al Suwaidi – ADNOC Offshore
Keith Leewis, PhD – Leewis and Associates
Reena Sahney – Jiva Consulting
Lifetime Achievement (Downstream)
Bipin V. Vora – Honeywell (retired)
James Jenkins – S&B Engineers and Constructors
Marilyn Blaschke – Baker Hughes
Energy Leader of the Year
Ahmed Jaber Al-Eidan – Kuwait Oil Company (KOC)
Dr. Abd El-Rahman Sayed Hassan Ibrahim – Egyptian Natural Gas Company (GASCO)
Kelly Seibert – Honeywell UOP
Muhammad Arsalan – Saudi Aramco
Torbjørn Weywadt Nilsen – Subsea Production Systems
Operator of the Year (all streams)
The winners in this prestigious category will be revealed in-person at the Gala.
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