For the past 42 years, Hart Energy’s E&P editors have presented the oil and gas industry with the Meritorious Awards for Engineering Innovation, which recognize service and operating companies for excellence and achievement in every segment of the upstream petroleum industry.
Exceptionally innovative products and technologies are measured against the world’s best to be distinguished as the most ground-breaking in concept, design, and application.
Winners of each category are products that provide monumental changes in their sectors and represent techniques and technologies that are most likely to improve exploration, drilling, production, facilities, and IT efficiency and profitability.
Contestants of the Meritorious Awards for Engineering Innovation are those that understand the need for newer, better, and constantly changing technological innovation to appease the energy-hungry world. This year the deadline has been extended to Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013. E&P editors will present the 2013 awards at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston May 6, 2013.
The winners are selected by an expert panel of judges comprising engineers and engineering managers from operating and consulting companies worldwide. Each judge is assigned a category that best calls on his or her area of expertise. Judges whose companies have a business interest are excluded from participation.
This year there are seven categories that any service or operating company may enter. Hart Energy’s E&P encourages companies both large and small to submit an entry if the technology has the potential to be game-changing both technically and economically, and it is commercially available.
The first category, geosciences, calls for any hardware or software that is geological, geophysical, or petrophysical in nature. The drilling operations category is open to any bit, fluid, drilling system, or related software. The completions category includes any fracturing or stimulation technology.
Field development includes enhanced oil recovery, onshore and offshore production facilities, processing, wellheads, and pad design. The systems integration category can include any entry of hardware or software that facilitates automation or cyber security. The final category, HSE, calls for any hardware, software, or methodology relating to health, safety, and the environment.
Each submission can be completed on the E&P website, EPmag.com/mea. The official entry form can be found online as well as entry instructions. Each entry must contain an abstract and a case study of 500 words or less each. Optional supporting documents include text, photos, charts and graphs, illustrations, or videos, but must be limited to three items. Log onto EPmag.com for more specifications regarding acceptable file formats and detailed instructions. And may the best technologies win!


Contact the author, Cody Özcan, at cozcan@hartenergy.com.

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