Upstream winners honored at 2025 Gulf Energy Information Excellence Awards in Houston
HOUSTON, TX (WO) — 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 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
- 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
- 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 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
- Energy Project of the Year – Upstream: Ruby FPSO Deepwater Operations – Reliance Industries Limited
- Hydrogen Project of the Year: Neoform H2 – Aramco Americas
- Most Promising Engineer – Upstream: Fatimah H. AlNasser – Saudi Aramco
- Lifetime Achievement – Upstream: Ronald R. Johnson – ExxonMobil
- Energy Leader of the Year: Muhammad Arsalan – Saudi Aramco
- Upstream Operator of the Year: ExxonMobil
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.
Gulf Energy Information (Gulf) delivers premium technical and business content, as well as market intelligence solutions, to the global energy and infrastructure industries through trusted engagement. For more than 100 years, Gulf's quality content and commitment to audience needs have led our company to become the most trusted resource in B2B media for the industries we serve. Our market-leading brands—Petroleum Economist, World Oil, Pipeline & Gas Journal, Hydrocarbon Processing, Gas Processing & LNG, H2Tech, Hydrogen Economist, Carbon Economist and Underground Infrastructure—serve their markets with real-time content through digital media and in-person/virtual events. Gulf also provides market intelligence solutions to the global energy industry through Global Energy Infrastructure.
Additional information on the Gulf Energy Information Excellence Awards program can be found at www.e2awards.com.
