E&P proudly presents the winners of the prestigious 2024 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.
2024 MEA Recipients
ARTIFICIAL LIFT
- Ultra-High-Speed High-Gas-Volume-Fraction-Pump (UHS HGVFP), Saudi Aramco & Lex Submersible Pump
CARBON MANAGEMENT
- Cat Hybrid Energy Storage Solution, Caterpillar Oil & Gas
DIGITAL OIL FIELD
- Centri-FI Consolidated Controls Solution, Expro Americas LLC
DRILL BITS
- AccuStrike short-makeup drill bit, SLB
DRILLING FLUIDS/STIMULATION
- BaraHib Trackable Inhibitive System, Halliburton Baroid
DRILLING SYSTEMS
- Mitigator, Ulterra
EXPLORATION/GEOSCIENCE
- Agile Asset Management, Halliburton Landmark
FLOATING SYSTEMS AND RIGS
- Multi-Hull Vessel Design, PTS Multi-Hull Solutions
FORMATION EVALUATION
- LWT - GEN3 Formation Density, Cordax Evaluation Technologies
HSE
- Mechanical Shaft Lock (MSL), Extract Production, NOV
HYDRAULIC FRACTURING/PRESSURE PUMPING
- LONEstart Toe Valve, Lonestar Completion Tools
IOR/EOR/REMEDIATION
- AcidBoost, Locus Bio-Energy
MACHINE LEARNING AND AI
- Predictive Drilling, Nabors Inudstries and Corva
MARINE CONSTRUCTION & DECOMMISSIONING
- Agnostic Tooling, Baker Hughes Energy Technology UK limited
NON-FRACTURING COMPLETIONS
- Dual-Trip Intelligent Completion with the Auris® Integrity Checker System and the Fuzion®-TJ Control-Line-Equipped Telescoping Travel Joint, Halliburton
ONSHORE RIGS
- Sigma Top Drive, Canrig Drilling Technologies
SUBSEA SYSTEMS
- Renewables for Subsea Power - Blue X and Halo, Mocean Energy and Verlume
WATER MANAGEMENT
- World's First Produced Water Management Project for Extreme Salinity Unconventional Frac Flow-Back Produced Water, Saudi Aramco