Best Completion Technology Award

This award recognizes the leading solution that provided a substantial impact on well completion. Criteria include innovation, reliability, commercial application and industry impact.

Best Data Management & Application Solution Award

This award is given for an implemented, viable workflow solution focused on data storage, delivery or management processes and technologies that provided tangible results for an operator or service company.

Best Deepwater Technology Award

This award recognizes significant technology innovation in deepwater drilling, completions or production.

Best Oilfield Fluids and Chemicals Award

This award category recognizes an innovative drilling, completion or production fluid or a fluid-related additive or chemical that was introduced commercially within the last year. This includes stimulation or treatment chemicals for production enhancement.

Best Drilling Technology Award

This award goes to innovators, who executed an industry-leading effort during the year that had a significant impact on the industry, onshore or offshore, through drilling innovation.

Best EOR Technology

This award is for innovations in all types of secondary and tertiary recovery used to increase output rates or extend the production life from oil and gas wells.

Best Exploration Technology Award

This award is given to the leading acquisition technology (including seismic, geochemistry, remote sensing, MWD/LWD, wireline) or algorithm/processing technology introduced during the year.

Best Outreach Program Award

One of the greatest challenges confronting the oil and gas industry is educating the younger generation about the value of the petroleum sector. This award spotlights a program that has done the best job of teaching the general community about the oil and gas industry.

Best Production Technology Award

This award will recognize a newly introduced production program or solution utilized during the year that allowed an operator to effectively manage and maximize production.

Best Digital Transformation Award

This award recognizes the importance of the ongoing transformation of the oilfield today. Digital transformation includes integration, automation, data management and collaboration, all focused on providing real-time solutions while enabling a step-change in operating efficiency.

Best Water Management Technology Award

This new award recognizes the importance of water management in today’s oil and gas industry. This category covers all aspects of water management in the upstream sector including sourcing, transportation, reuse and recycling, and disposal.

Best Well Integrity Technology

This award is for the application of operational, organizational and technical solutions to reduce the risk of the uncontrolled release of formation fluids throughout the life of the well. It includes innovations in accountability/responsibility, well operating processes, well servicing processes, tubing/annulus integrity, wellhead/tree integrity and safety systems testing.

Best Well Intervention Award

This award is for routine well maintenance, which can represent the highest expenditure over the life of the well. It recognizes new intervention technologies that help make significant improvements that improve production, reduce cost or save time.

New Horizons Idea Award

The winner of this award is a company with a game-changing product, technology or idea that redefines the industry’s thinking. The winner of this award symbolizes how the industry will operate in the future and will serve as a guidepost to the next generation of leadership entering today’s upstream energy sector.

Health, Safety, Environment/Sustainable Development Onshore Award

This award is presented to a company that has made significant strides in protecting and enhancing the onshore environment and communities where it operates. Whether through technical innovations, implementation of new standards and processes, or introduction of social and economic development efforts, the winner will have a program that made a marked improvement in an HSE/sustainable development endeavor.

Health, Safety, Environment/Sustainable Development Offshore Award

This award is presented to a company that has made significant strides in protecting and enhancing the offshore environment where it operates. Whether through technical innovations, implementation of new standards and processes, or introduction of social and economic development efforts, the winner will have a program that made a marked improvement in an HSE/sustainable development endeavor.

Lifetime Achievement Award (Individual)

This award will honor an individual who has made both significant strides and impacted the oil and gas industry throughout his or her career. The recipient may be retired from the industry, but will be an individual whose legacy still has an impact. Nominations must be submitted by a company, organization or colleague. [Nominee must be living.] Self-nominated submissions will not be accepted.

Innovative Thinker Award (Individual)

This award honors an individual who has demonstrated thought leadership in the upstream oil and gas sector. The winner will be an inspiration to all and a champion of the industry, not only in terms of the breadth of achievements, but also through the demonstration of vision and innovative thinking. Nominations must be submitted by a company, organization or colleague. Self-nominated submissions will not be accepted.