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MEA Medallion

Measure your technology
against the world's best

Entry is easy and free, and the judging criteria are simple.

Entries are judged on their game-changing significance, both technically and economically. Entries must be commercially available.

Deadline for entries is December 31, 2012

Categories are:
Exploration technology and techniques:
  • Onshore: Including potential fields, EM, seismic, and satellite hardware and software
  • Offshore: Including potential fields, EM, seismic, and satellite hardware and software
Drill bits and reamers:
  • Including hardware and software
Drilling fluids:
  • Including oil-based mud, water-based mud, and HP/HT fluids
Drilling tools:
  • Including downhole tools such as MWD, BHAs, subs, motors
Formation evaluation:
  • Including wireline well logging hardware and software, LWD, geosteering
Completions:
  • Including hydraulic fracturing hardware and software, perforation hardware and software, fluids
Stimulation technology:
  • Onshore: Including matrix acidizing, fracturing, fluids, chemicals, water treatment equipment and proppants, and real-time and post-treatment evaluation
  • Offshore: Including matrix acidizing, fracturing, fluids, chemicals, water treatment equipment and proppants, and real-time and post-treatment evaluation
 
IOR/EOR:
  • Onshore: Including all forms of secondary and tertiary recovery, steam flooding, and SAG-D
  • Offshore: Including all forms of secondary and tertiary recovery
Production technology:
  • Including artificial lift, sand and water management, fluid flow monitoring, and downhole and surface production monitoring
Remediation:
  • Onshore: Including intervention, and integrity monitoring hardware and software
  • Offshore: Including intervention, intervention vessels, and integrity monitoring hardware and software
Intelligent Systems:
  • Including real-time operations, intelligent downhole systems, workflows, analytics, and diagnostics
Facilities:
  • Onshore: Including onshore production facilities and drilling rig technology (top drives, automation, footprint)
  • Offshore: Including offshore floating production facilities, drilling rig technology, and riser technology
HSE:
  • Including personal protective gear, process safety management, system redundancy, monitoring, training, auditing, and benchmarking
Subsea technology:
  • Including systems, infrastructure, production and processing, and flow assurance
Arctic/Deepwater innovation:
  • Including tools and technology, innovation, and logistics

 

How to Enter


Step 1

What you need to provide

For each submission, please provide:

  • The Official Entry Form. See “Step 3: Where to send your entry information” below (REQUIRED).
  • One high resolution image (REQUIRED)

Supporting Documents:

  • An abstract of 500 words or fewer describing the game-changing significance, technically and economically, of the entry (REQUIRED).
  • A case study of 500 words or fewer that describes the entry’s use in one specific commercial application (REQUIRED).
  • One photo or illustration (REQUIRED)
  • Additional supporting documents such as text, photos, charts and graphs, illustrations or videos (OPTIONAL).

Please limit your optional submissions to a maximum of three items. Limit attachment sizes to 20MB


Step 2

Make sure your supporting documents are in an acceptable file format.

  • Text documents: Adobe Acrobat (preferred), MS Word, MS Excel, RTF, plain text.
  • Photos and illustrations: Adobe Acrobat (preferred), JPG, TIF, WMF, EPS
  • Videos (including animations): AVI, MPEG, WMV, QuickTime

Step 3

Where to send your entry information

We offer three ways for you to submit entries
Online: E-mail: By Mail:

This is the fastest, simplest way to enter.

 

Easy instructions guide you through filling out the Official Entry Form onscreen and uploading supporting documents. After entering, you can manage your entries (review, make corrections, update supporting documents) by visiting your Personal Entry Page.

 

 

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meainfo@hartenergy.com

 

If you are entering by email, please attach your Official Entry Form and supporting documents to the message. Download the Official Entry Form by clicking on this link:

 

Download Entry Form

Please include the Official Entry Form filled out completely, and a CD-ROM disk (we cannot accept CD-RW disks) or flash drive containing your supporting documents. Please make sure all information is legible.

 

Download Entry Form

 

Mail to:

 

Meritorious Engineering Awards Committee
Hart Energy Publishing
1616 S. Voss
Suite 1000
Houston, TX  77057
Tel: 1-713-260-6459

 

You may also call 1-713-260-6459 to have a form mailed to you.

 

 

Hart's E&P has non-exclusive rights to reuse submitted materials