The 2024 Gulf Energy Information Excellence Awards was held on Wednesday, October 9 at the Post Oak Hotel in Houston, Texas.
According to a news release, the black-tie event recognized the energy industry’s top innovations and leaders.
“We received nearly 500 nominations this year, from which more than 180 finalists emerged. This is a record year for nominations, and a testament to the evolution in the technologies shaping the global oil and gas industry,” said John Royall, Chief Executive Officer, Gulf Energy Information.
Honorees received awards in 29 categories from the oil, gas and energy industries.
A complete list of the categories and winners is as follows:
- Best Advancement in Maintenance Technology – Midstream: GoVAC® MAX Pipeline Evacuation System – Onboard Dynamics
- Best Catalyst Technology: FT CANS for Sustainable Aviation Fuel – Johnson Matthey
- Best Completions Technology: 9645 MST System – Superior Completion Services, a Superior Energy Services Company
- CCS/CCUS/Carbon Removal Project of the Year: STRATOS – 1PointFive
- Best Coating/Corrosion Advancement Technology: AnX Coiled Rod – ChampionX Artificial Lift
- Best Controls, Instrumentation, Automation Technology – Upstream: Autonomous Well Intervention – Aker BP and SLB
- Best Controls, Instrumentation, Automation Technology – Downstream: Convection Section Cleaning Rover – Integrated Global Services
- Best Deepwater Technology: TRU-ARMS™ – Baker Hughes
- Best Drilling Technology: Predictive Drilling – Nabors Industries and Corva
- DE&I in Energy: Growing Responsibilities and Opportunities for Women (GROW) – Sempra Infrastructure
- Best Digital Transformation – Upstream: EWM™: The Extreme Weather Monitoring and Simulation Platform – FENNEX and Noble Corporation
- Best Digital Transformation – Midstream: Reinforcement Learning Autonomous Optimizer – Saudi Aramco
- Best Digital Transformation – Downstream: Honeywell Forge Performance + Production Intelligence – Honeywell
- Energy Legal Services Provider of the Year: White & Case
- Best EOR Technology: EquiFlow® Density Autonomous Inflow Control Device – Halliburton and Saudi Aramco
- Best Exploration Technology: SFD® – Stress Field Detection – NXT Energy Solutions Inc.
- Best Outreach Program: Securing Our Energy Future Project – Consumer Energy Education Foundation (CEEF)
- Best Health, Safety or Environmental Contribution – Upstream: Manifa Producing Department (MPD) – Saudi Aramco
- Best Health, Safety or Environmental Contribution – Midstream: Smart Helmet Solution – ADNOC Offshore
- Best Health, Safety or Environmental Contribution – Downstream: Pioneering AI-driven Plant Video Surveillance Project with Jio Platforms – Reliance Industries Ltd.
- Innovation in Pipeline Engineering: Green Hydrogen & Heat Production Through Pressure Reduction Stations in Gas Pipelines – METRON SA
- Technology Licensor of the Year: Lummus Technology
- Best Modeling Technology: Unified Ensemble Modeling – Halliburton Landmark
- Best Oilfield Fluids and Chemicals: InvictaSet™ Self-Regenerating Cement System – Baker Hughes
- Best Petrochemical Technology: Thermal Crude-to-Chemicals (TC2C™) – Lummus Technology
- Best Pipeline Integrity Technology: From the Subsurface to Outer Space—Low-Earth Orbit IIoT for Sustainability – Saudi Aramco & Aramco Americas
- Best Production Technology: Multicycle System for Actuated Response (MSAR) – Saudi Aramco and SLB
- Best Refining Technology: FT Unicracking™ – Honeywell UOP
- Energy Project of the Year – Upstream: Cat® Hybrid Energy Storage Solution – Caterpillar Oil & Gas
- Energy Project of the Year – Midstream: Cedar LNG – Pembina Pipeline Corporation
- Energy Project of the Year – Downstream: Balikpapan Oil & Gas Infrastructure Project – PT Pertamina
- Hydrogen Project of the Year: MH500, An Innovative Methane Pyrolysis Unit – Modern Hydrogen
- Most Promising Engineer – Upstream: Stacey Althaus – Aramco Americas
- Most Promising Engineer – Midstream: Dr. Imran Ulhaq – Saudi Aramco
- Most Promising Engineer – Downstream: Anderson Castillo Ramirez – Ecopetrol
- Lifetime Achievement – Upstream: Angus Jamieson – Helmerich & Payne
- Lifetime Achievement – Midstream: Douglas C. Osburn III – AUTOSOL
- Lifetime Achievement – Downstream: Robert Haugen – Element Fuels
- Energy Leader of the Year: Justin Bird – Sempra Infrastructure
- Operators of the Year – Upstream: Woodside Energy
- Operator of the Year – Midstream: Williams Companies
- Operator of the Year: Neste
Source: Gulf Energy Information
