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Finalists Announced! Celebrate Excellence in Energy This October
Gulf Energy Information has announced the downstream finalists for the 2025 Gulf Energy Information Excellence Awards®, celebrating breakthrough technologies, innovative projects and industry leaders shaping the future of energy.
The black-tie event will take place Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025, at The Post Oak Hotel in Houston, Texas (U.S.). The gala will bring together professionals from across upstream, midstream and downstream sectors for an evening of recognition, networking and celebration.
“The Excellence Awards are more than an awards ceremony — they are the largest and most prestigious celebration of energy innovation,” organizers said. “Whether nominating, hosting a table or sponsoring, companies should be part of this moment.”
The downstream finalists, comprising some of the brightest innovators and technologies in the field, are as follows (For a complete list of all award categories and nominees, visit https://e2awards.com/finalists-2/):
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
Leon de Bruyn – Lummus Technology
Operator of the Year (all streams)
The winners in this prestigious category will be revealed in-person at the Gala.
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