2022 World Oil Awards finalists announced

World Oil leadership congratulates the finalists for its 2022 World Oil Awards, which were carefully selected from a record number of nominations.

The World Oil judging team selected finalists for each of the 18 categories from a pool of 303 nominations. The winners will be announced at the 2022 World Oil Awards ceremony on Oct. 13 at The Houstonian in Houston, Texas.

“The World Oil Awards are the premier annual venue for recognizing the finest in upstream technological innovation and achievement,” said World Oil Editor-in-Chief Kurt Abraham.

The finalists are as follows, in no particular order:

Best Completion Technology Award

3M™ Ceramic Sand Screens – 3M
inVision™ – Intelligent Wellhead Systems
OptaSense Multiwell DAS Strain Monitor – OptaSense
PetroGuard^® Armour Sand Control Screen – Halliburton
SPM™ Simplified Frac Iron System – SPM Oil & Gas
TITAN^® Direct Drive Turbine Technology – BJ Energy Solutions

Best Data Management and Application Solution Award

Advanced Flow Analytics – Fossilytics Engineered Solutions
Engineering Collaborative Environment – SBM Offshore
eWATCH-Sustainable Operations Cockpit Digital Platform: Real-Time CO₂ Footprint Tracking of Oilfield Chemical Operations – Clariant
Fluid Intelligence – Newpark
PaleoScan, VDS and FAST, The OSDU Data Platform on AWS – Amazon Web Services, Bluware, and Eliis
Real-Time Reservoir Fluid Identification – Equinor

Best Deepwater Technology Award

750 Ton J-Slot Tool – Expro
BrightStar^® Service – Halliburton
Fuzion™-H Wet-Mate Connector – Halliburton
Managed Pressure Drilling and Riser Gas Handling (“MPD” and “RGH”) System – Oil States Industries
PeriScope Edge Multilayer Mapping-While-Drilling Service – Schlumberger

Best Digital Transformation Award

Akselos Digital Twin – Akselos
Autonomous Directional Drilling – Schlumberger
AWS & IBM Collaboration for the OSDUTM Data Platform – Amazon Web Services and IBM
Intelligent SAOO Center of Operation and Production Excellence (iSCOPE) – Saudi Aramco
ProductionLink™ Edge Smart Artificial Lift Automation Solution – Baker Hughes
Southeast Asia Project – Halliburton

Best Drilling Technology Award

GeoSphere 360* 3D Reservoir Mapping-While-Drilling Service – Schlumberger
Halliburton Cerebro Force™ In-Bit Sensing – Halliburton
Magnus™ Rotary Steerable System – Weatherford
Merlin™ 15K HPHT Riser System – Oil States Industries
SAGE – Saudi Aramco Geomechanics Expert – Saudi Aramco

Best EOR Technology Award

ELEVATE™ CO₂ Soluble Foaming Surfactant for Reservoir Conformance Improvement – ConocoPhillips, Dow, and Maverick Natural Resources
Leistritz Plunger Assisting Multiphase Pump (PAMP) – Leistritz Advanced Technologies
Metallic Tuned Water Injection – Repsol Sinopec Brasil
PermaFLO™ Solid Inhibitor Particles – Baker Hughes
WaterWeb^® – Halliburton

Best Exploration Technology Award

Airborne micro-TEM and physics-deep learning: A Solution for Seismic Near Surface Corrections in Sand-Covered Areas – Saudi Aramco
Automated Geosteering – Helmerich & Payne
DecisionSpace^® 365 Seismic Processing Essentials – Halliburton Landmark
Land Seismic Acquisition by Swarm of UAVs – Saudi Aramco
PureFlex Surface Fluids Logging While-Drilling Service – Schlumberger

Best Oilfield Fluids and Chemicals Award

DELTA-TEQ™XT – Baker Hughes
BaraHib™ Gold ─ Trackable Inhibitive System – Halliburton Baroid
Combined Kinetic Hydrate Inhibitor and H₂S Scavenger, HYDT16919A – ChampionX
Downhole Scale Mitigation Program – Clariant and Saudi Aramco
Nviros™ – Newpark
OneSTEP EF Efficient, Low-Risk Sandstone Stimulation Solution – Chevron and Schlumberger

Best Outreach Program

Artificial Intelligence Energy Camp – Consumer Energy Education Foundation
Oklahoma Energy Resources Board

Best Production Technology Award

ADAPT Technology – Clariant Oil Services
E-Mission™ – TechnipFMC
HIGH RISE™ Series Pumps – ChampionX
Hydro-Helical^® – Summit ESP^® – A Halliburton Service
QuickSet™ Gas Compression Control Skid – Liftrock LLC
Sandstone Divert with Breaker D – Baker Hughes

Best Water Management Technology Award

A Sustainable Produced Water Management Technology for Circular Water Economy – Saudi Aramco
FloBoost™ SWD Injectivity Aid – Locus Bio-Energy Solutions
Predictive Analysis Water Optimization…