World Oil and Gulf Energy Information are pleased to announce the finalists for the 2019 World Oil Awards. For 18 years, these prestigious awards have recognized and honored the upstream energy industry’s leading innovators and innovations and recognized step changes in technology that have made a lasting impact.

Best Completions Technology Award

• FloFuse – Tendeka
• FracEYE℠ Frac Hit Analysis Service – Reveal Energy Services
• Evolution Well Services Electric Fracturing Fleet – Evolution Well Services
• DuraStim Pump – AFGlobal
• TR1P™ Single-Trip Completion System – Weatherford
• Fracture ID Drillbit Geomechanics – Fracture ID
• SPM® Quintuplex Extended Max (QEM) 5000 Electric Frac Pump – Weir Oil & Gas

Best Data Management & Application Solution Award

• Validere 360, Validere Alpha – Validere
• Digital Production Advisory Solution – OneSubsea, Schlumberger
• Halliburton XSpace™ Data Management Platform – Halliburton
• Digital Condition-monitoring System for BlueVault Energy Storage – Siemens
• SIWELL Artificial Lift Suite – Siemens
• SeaLytics 3.0 BOP Advisor – Baker Hughes, a GE company
• Seawater Treatment Condition Monitoring Software – NOV
• EDM for Energy – IHS Markit

Best Deepwater Technology Award

• Subsea Pumping Technology (SPT) – Oceaneering International
• GyroSphere MEMS Gyro-While-Drilling Service – Schlumberger
• Industry’s First 20,000-psi Subsea System – OneSubsea, Schlumberger
• Victus Intelligent MPD – Weatherford
• Enhanced Single-trip Multizone (ESTMZ™) System Used in a Stacked Configuration – Halliburton/Chevron North America Exploration and Production Company

Best Oilfield Fluids and Chemicals Award

• BaraShale™ Lite Direct Emulsion Fluid System – Halliburton
• WAXTREAT SubZero – Clariant
• Particulate Gel for AllSeal Water and Gas Conformance Services – Schlumberger
• TETRA Advanced Displacement System (TADS) – TETRA Technologies
• EnduraDril Inhibitive Divalent Water-Based Drilling Fluid – M-I SWACO, A Schlumberger Company
• d'Artagnan Versatile Corrosion Inhibitor – Nalco Champion, an Ecolab company
• MAX-LOCK Lost Circulation Material – Baker Hughes, a GE company
• CHEMBINE₃™ WCW344 – Baker Hughes, a GE company

Best Drilling Technology Award

• Navi-Drill DuraMax High-Performance Motor – Baker Hughes, a GE company
• GeoSphere HD High-Definition Reservoir Mapping-While-Drilling Service – Schlumberger
• Active Control Device (ACD) – AFGlobal
• Flex MPD – Halliburton
• EarthStar 3D Inversions – Halliburton

Best EOR Technology Award

• ESP-Enabled HEAL Horizontal Enhanced Artificial Lift System – HEAL Systems, a Joint Venture Between Schlumberger and Production Plus Energy Services
• CO2 Capture, Sequestration and EOR Project – Saudi Aramco
• High-Performance Nano-coatings for Desulfation Membranes – TechnipFMC

Best Exploration Technology Award

• WiFire™ Acoustic Firing Head – Halliburton
• 3D Far-Field Sonic Service – Schlumberger
• EarthStudy 360® - Application of Deep Learning to Pre-stack Data For Subsurface Feature Identification – Emerson
• DSA - World’s First 3D Dispersed Source Array Blended Seismic Acquisition – Saudi Aramco
• T1T2IFMI for Unconventionals with Halliburton XMR™ Service – Halliburton

Best Health, Safety, Environment / Sustainable Development - Offshore Award

• Rack Back Console – Frank's International
• Jet String Elevator – Frank's International
• OneSubsea Multiphase Compressor – OneSubsea, Schlumberger
• Relief Well Injection Spool – Add Energy

Best Health, Safety, Environment / Sustainable Development - Onshore Award

• Halliburton Tuned® Prime™ Cement Spacer – Halliburton
• Haradh Gas Plant Sulfur Recovery Process – Saudi Aramco Haradh Gas Plant
• The Denbury “Zero by Choice Reporting Tool” – Denbury Resources Inc
• Pure Bore Technologies – Clear Solutions International
• SSG UPS With LiFePO4 Long Life Battery – Falcon Electric, Inc.

Best Outreach Program Award

• King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture Energy Exhibit – Saudi Aramco
• Young Women Energized – Women's Energy Network

Best Production Technology Award

• Colibri Cable-deployed Rigless ESP – Novomet
• Extreme Conditions Wireline Retrievable ESP Solution – AccessESP LLC
• Vx Omni Subsea Multiphase Flowmeter – OneSubsea, Schlumberger
• Centrifugal Jet Pumps – Weatherford
• Using Naturally Occurring Tracers in Oil and Water to Optimize Production Strategies – Stratum Reservoir
• Subsea 2.0 In-Line Compact Robotic Manifold – TechnipFMC

Best Digital Transformation Award

• Emerson’s Permasense Non-intrusive Ultrasonic ET210 Sensor – Emerson Automation Solutions
• ForeSite Edge – Weatherford
• BaraLogix® Real-time Solutions – Halliburton
• i-Tech 7-Leidos Partnership – i-Tech 7

Best Water Management Technology Award

• Aquarius Horizontal Pumping Solutions – Valiant Artificial Lift Solutions
• TETRA SwiftWater Automated Treatment (SWAT™) System – TETRA Technologies
• Siemens Completion Fluid and Produced Water Zinc-Removal System – Siemens Water Solutions
• Subsea Sulphate Removal System – Baker Hughes, a GE company
• TETRA Lowest Cost Per Barrel Water Management Solution – TETRA Technologies
• HYDROCIDE – Hydrozonix

Best Well Integrity Technology Award

• Halliburton Commander™ Full Bore Cement Head – Halliburton
• TuffTRAC iX Extreme-Performance Wireline Tractor – Schlumberger
• Innovative Resin Formulations for Remedial and Primary Cementing Operations – Saudi Aramco
• Electromagnetic Pipe Xaminer® V (EPX™ V) Tool – Halliburton
• FORTRESS-HP High-Pressure Spring-Triggered Premium Isolation Valve – Schlumberger

Best Well Intervention Technology

• SPECTRUM 360 – Halliburton
• CoilHose Light Well Circulation System (LWCS) – Expro
• Dash® Sensor Sub – Halliburton
• Flow Activated Pulsation Tool (FAPT) – NOV
• Perseus Pump-Through Cutter – Baker Hughes, a GE company

Innovative Thinker Award

• Dr. Lirio Quintero – Baker Hughes, a GE company
• Ron Dusterhoft – Halliburton
• Paul Englram – AGT Water Systems
• Brian Skeels – TechnipFMC

New Horizons Idea Award

• IriSphere Look-Ahead-While-Drilling Service – Schlumberger
• Enhanced Visualization for Separation Technology – Rigsite Virtual Mapping and Holographic Model Viewer – Halliburton
• Mobile Turbine Generator – Dynamis Power Solutions
• Prodigi™ Intelligent Fracturing Service – Halliburton
• FracBots: The Next Real Reservoir IoT – Saudi Aramco
• Engineering Injection Water Chemistry for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) – Saudi Aramco
• Taking Energy Forward: BHGE’s Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Commitment – Baker Hughes, a GE company

Lifetime Achievement Award

• Alagarsamy Sundararajan
• Elmo M. Blount
• Sunil L. Kokal
• Professor Stephen A. Holditch
• Harold Hamm