Winners of 2015 World Oil Awards honored in Houston gala
HOUSTON – More than 300 of the upstream industry’s brightest minds gathered Thursday to find out the winners of the 2015 World Oil Awards.
The awards ceremony, which is now in its fourteenth year, seeks to recognize and honor the upstream industry’s top innovations and innovators.
Honorees took home awards in 18 categories—encompassing the full breadth of the upstream industry—from the gala event in Houston.
This year’s awards, which received an overwhelming number of nominations, saw the addition of two new categories—Best EOR Technology Award and Best Well Integrity Technology Award—to ensure appropriate recognition for every aspect of the industry.
Today’s innovations, many of which would have seemed far-fetched a generation ago, are enabling operators to find and produce hydrocarbons more safely, economically and efficiently.
And, as part of World Oil’s commitment to the long-term health of the industry, each year the World Oil Awards endow a leading university, which provides education for careers in the petroleum industry, with much-needed funding to equip the next generation of innovators.
Since the inception of the World Oil Awards, donations have been distributed to 31 universities as varying as the University of Houston and the University of Ibadan in Nigeria.
This year’s beneficiary is the Women in Engineering Program in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.
A complete list of the categories and winners appears below. A complete analysis of the winners will be featured in the November edition of World Oil.
2015 World Oil Awards Winners
Best Completion Technology Award
MultiCycle Frac Sleeves, NCS Multistage LLC
Best Data Management & Application Solution Award
Non-Destructive BOP Inspection Technology-4D Digital Fingerprinting, GE Oil & Gas
Best Deepwater Technology Award
Hammerhead Ultra-deepwater Integrated Completion and Production System, Baker Hughes Incorporated
Best Drilling and Completion Fluids Award
RHELIANT PLUS Drilling Fluid System, M-I SWACO, a Schlumberger company
Best Drilling Technology Award
GeoSphere Reservoir Mapping-While-Drilling Service, Schlumberger
Best EOR Technology Award
WASP (Wireline Applied Stimulation Pulsing), Blue Spark Energy Inc
Best Exploration Technology Award
3D Mapping of Reservoir Saturation from Crosswell Electromagnetic in Horizontal Wells, Saudi Aramco and Schlumberger
Best Health, Safety, Environment / Sustainable Development - Offshore Award
Safety Lock Module, National Oilwell Varco
Best Health, Safety, Environment / Sustainable Development - Onshore Award
EnviroLift, Weatherford International plc
Best Outreach Program
Fortis 4 Vets Program, Fortis Energy Services Inc.
Best Production Chemicals Award
Chemically-induced Pulse Fracturing for Unconventional Reservoirs, Saudi Aramco
Best Production Technology Award
AccessFrac, Halliburton
Best Visualization & Collaboration Award
ePLUS Retina Monitoring System, Packers Plus Energy Services Inc.
Best Well Integrity Technology Award
Deepwater MPD System including MicroFlux Control System, Weatherford International plc
Best Well Intervention Award
BlueCoil Technology, Tenaris Coiled Tubes
Innovative Thinker Award
Philip M. Snider, PMSnider Consulting LLC
Lifetime Achievement Award
Tore Halvorsen, FMC Technologies
New Horizons Idea Award
Modumetal, Modumetal Inc.
