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
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.
