E&P proudly presents the winners of the prestigious 2023 Special Meritorious Awards for Engineering Innovation (MEAs).
The MEAs recognize service and operating companies for excellence and achievement in every segment of the upstream petroleum industry. The winning technologies represent a broad range of disciplines and address a number of challenges that pose roadblocks to efficient operations. Winners of each category are products that provided monumental changes in their sectors and represented techniques and technologies that are most likely to improve artificial lift, carbon management, digitalization, drill bits, drilling fluids/stimulation, drilling systems, exploration/geoscience, formation evaluation, HSE, hydraulic fracturing/pressure pumping, IOR/EOR/remediation, nonfracturing completions, onshore rigs, subsea systems, and water management.
The awards program recognizes new products and technologies designed by people and companies who understand the need for newer, better and constantly changing technological innovation to appease the energy-hungry world.
The expert panel of judges comprised geologists, geophysicists, petrophysicists and engineers from operating and consulting companies worldwide. Each judge was assigned a category that best utilized his or her area of expertise. Judges whose companies have a business interest were excluded from participation.
2023 MEA Recipients
ARTIFICIAL LIFT
- InfinityPL, Ambyint + AWS with CNX Resources
CARBON MANAGEMENT
- Canrig nan02 Fuel Enhancer, Nabors Industries
DIGITAL OIL FIELD
- Neuro Autonomous Solutions, SLB
DRILL BITS
- Aegis 3D-printed Armor, SLB
DRILLING FLUIDS/STIMULATION
- AquaShear Drilling Fluids Mixer, Johnson Specialty Tools
DRILLING SYSTEMS
- GeoSphere 360, SLB
EXPLORATION/GEOSCIENCE
- BlendSeis: Advanced Seismic Data Acquisition, Saudi Aramco
FLOATING SYSTEMS AND RIGS
- MPD-Ready Jack-Up Riser, Oil States Industries
FORMATION EVALUATION
- StrataStar Deep Azimuthal Resistivity Service, Halliburton
HSE
- Digital Gas Monitoring Ecosystem, Shepherd Safety Systems
HYDRAULIC FRACTURING/PRESSURE PUMPING
- ClearVision, EV
IOR/EOR/REMEDIATION
- Welltec Puncher 218, Welltec
MACHINE LEARNING AND AI
- LOGIX Autonomous Drilling Platform's Auto Steer Module, Halliburton
NON-FRACTURING COMPLETIONS
- Fuzion - EH electro-hydraulic downhole wet-mate connector, Halliburton
ONSHORE RIGS
- FlexRig Flex3 Walking Rig Million Pound Mast, Helmerich & Payne
SUBSEA SYSTEMS
- REACH Wireline-retrievable Safety Valve, Baker Hughes
WATER MANAGEMENT
- Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) Produced Water Management Project, Saudi Aramco