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16 Oct 2025

The Gulf Energy Information Excellence Awards® 2025 winners honored at live Houston gala

The 2025 Gulf Energy Information Excellence Awards^® was held on Thursday evening at the Post Oak Hotel in Houston, Texas (U.S.). The black-tie gala recognized the energy industry’s leading innovations and thought leaders. “The Gulf Awards continues to grow each year. We received more than 500 nominations this year, with nearly 200 finalists.

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, encompassing the full breadth of the oil, gas and energy industries. Today’s innovations are enabling operators to find, produce, transport and process hydrocarbons more safely, economically, efficiently and sustainably. A complete list of the categories and winners is as follows:

Best Advancement in Maintenance Technology: Inlet Integrity Program – Nalco Water, an Ecolab Company

Best Catalyst Technology: Innovative Chromium-Free HySat™ Catalyst Platform for Hydrogenation Processes – Clariant AG International

Best Completions Technology: CoilFUSE™ – Segmented CT System for Ultra-Reach Laterals – NOV

CCS/CCUS/Carbon Removal Project of the Year: Oil States CCS Netherlands Project – Oil States

Best Coating/Corrosion Advancement Technology: Heat-Flex® AEB – Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine

Best Controls, Instrumentation, Automation Technology – Upstream: Hummingbird™ all electric-land cementing unit – Baker Hughes

Best Controls, Instrumentation, Automation Technology – Midstream: Full Autonomous Operation of Crude Oil Plant – Saudi Aramco

Best Controls, Instrumentation, Automation Technology – Downstream: Integrated Electrical Automation and Energy Management System - Reliance Industries Limited

Best Deepwater Technology: Well Radar™ ranging and interception services – SLB

Best Drilling Technology: Stream™ high-speed intelligent telemetry – SLB

Excellence in Corporate Culture: WeLead – Building future leaders through Mentoring – SLB

Best Digital Transformation – Upstream: Automated Drilling Mud Report Using Generative AI – NOV

Best Digital Transformation – Midstream: PipeTest HydroView - PipeSense, LLC

Best Digital Transformation – Downstream (tie): Electrical Equipment Performance Management (EEPM) Digital Platform – Reliance Industries Limited; and Operations Copilot - Saudi Aramco

Energy Legal Services Provider of the Year: White & Case

Best EOR Technology: Magnetically enhanced oil recovery – Saudi Aramco

Best Exploration Technology: OnWave™ Autonomous Logging Platform – SLB

Best Outreach Program: Summer Training Program for High School Students – SASREF

Best Health, Safety or Environmental Contribution – Upstream: VIGILANCE™ Intelligent Safety and Surveillance Solution – Expro

Best Health, Safety or Environmental Contribution – Midstream: Mitigating Gas Flaring at Oil Producing Facilities – Saudi Aramco

Best Health, Safety or Environmental Contribution – Downstream: Risk Pulse – Reliance Industries Limited

Innovation in Pipeline Engineering – Midstream: Remote Operated Inline Isolation Tool – Pipeline Ultraisolation Group (PLUG)

Technology Licensor of the Year: Lummus Technology

Best Modeling Technology: Scalable Earth Modeling – Halliburton Landmark

Best Oilfield Fluids and Chemicals: OpenPath Flex™: Breaking barriers in Carbonate Stimulation with optimized efficiency – SLB

Best Petrochemical Technology: EDHOX™ Technology – Linde Engineering and Clariant Corporation

Best Pipeline Integrity Technology: High-fidelity Distributed Sensing (HDS™) for pipeline monitoring – Hifi

Best Production Technology: FloTrac™ Ultrahigh-Resolution Nanoparticle Tracers – QuantumPro, Inc. in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) FORGE Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) Project

Best Refining Technology: CDDME for Renewable Dimethyl Ether Production – Lummus Technology

Energy Project of the Year – Upstream: MJ Ruby FPSO Deepwater Operations – Reliance Industries Limited

Energy Project of the Year – Midstream: SPM (Single Point Mooring) Valeria – Cenit Transporte y Logística de Hidrocarburos

Energy Project of the Year – Downstream: Acelen – KBC (A Yokogawa Company)

Hydrogen Project of the Year: Neoform H2 – Aramco Americas

Most Promising Engineer – Upstream: Fatimah H. AlNasser – Saudi Aramco

Most Promising Engineer – Midstream: Ramprasad Kamisetty – Flowchem LLC

Most Promising Engineer – Downstream: Alexis Shackleford – BASF Corporation

Lifetime Achievement – Upstream: Ronald R. Johnson – ExxonMobil

Lifetime Achievement – Midstream: Keith Leewis PhD – Leewis and Associates

Lifetime Achievement – Downstream: Bipin V. Vora – Honeywell (retired)

Energy Leader of the Year: Muhammad Arsalan – Saudi Aramco

Operator of the Year:

ExxonMobil – Operator of the Year Upstream

Williams Companies – Operator of the Year Midstream

Saudi Aramco – Operator of the Year Downstream

The 2025 Gulf Energy Information Excellence Awards were generously sponsored by Aramco, Kuwait Oil Company, Expro, Lummus Technology, CNPC, Halliburton, Baker Hughes, QuantumPro, Inc., Superior Energy Services, T.D. Williamson and McCormick & Schmick’s.

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