The Winners Circle

E&P magazine proudly presents the winners of the prestigious 2009 Special Meritorious Awards for Engineering Innovation. An independent team of experts judged the competition and included engineers and engineering managers from operating and consulting companies worldwide. They judged entries only in their areas of specialization. Judges had no business interest in the companies or categories they judged.

The winners spanned a broad range of disciplines and addressed a number of problems that posed roadblocks to efficient operations. The resulting technological advances opened new and bet ter avenues to the challenging process of finding and producing hydrocarbons worldwide.

Drill Bits: IDEAS Directional PDC Drill Bit by Smith International
IDEAS applications can be used on multiple drive systems.

Completions: Delta Stim by Halliburton
System stimulates multiple zones.

Drilling Fluids: I-BOSS by M-I SWACO
Solutions toolkit stabilizes wellbores while drilling.

Drilling Tools: OneTrip StarBurst by Weatherford International Inc.
One-trip capability reduces costs and eliminates hardware.

Exploration Technology: Firefly by Ion Geophysical
Cableless land acquisition system provides greater efficiency, less HSE risk.

Facilities: Power Xpert 8000 Meter by Hess and Eaton Electrical Inc.
Permanent monitoring system collects critical subsea data

Formation Evaluation: GC TRACER by Weatherford International Inc.
Gas detector aids in reservoir evaluation.

Intelligent systems and components: Pore pressure and geomechanics solution by Landmark
Seamless integration across the asset life cycle.

IOR/EOR: Metal-to-Metal downhole seal system by Caledyne
MTM seals stand up to extreme downhole conditions.

Production Systems: CameronDC by Cameron
World’s first all-electric subsea production system comes on line.

Remediation: Motorized Cutting Tool (MCT) by Weatherford International Inc.
MCT safely cuts tubulars.

Stimulation: Acid on the fly blending system by Halliburton
System is inherently more efficient than bleed-and-batch acidizing.