The Winners Circle
E&P magazine proudly presents the winners of the prestigious 2018 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 better avenues to the challenging process of finding and producing hydrocarbons worldwide.
2018 MEA Winners
ARTIFICIAL LIFT
Lift IQ Production Life Cycle Management Service, Schlumberger
DRILLBITS
StingBlock Advanced Stabilization Conical Element Cutter Block, Schlumberger
DRILLING FLUIDS/STIMULATION
CEMPRO+, Pegasus Vertex, Inc.
DRILLING SYSTEMS
Endura® Dual-String Section Mill, Weatherford
JetPulse® High-Speed Telemetry Service, Halliburton
EXPLORATION
DrillCam, Saudi Aramco
FORMATION EVALUATION
Pulsar Multifunction Spectroscopy Service, Schlumberger
HSE
CO2-EOR and Sequestration Project with a Comprehensive Monitoring Program, Saudi Aramco
HYDRAULIC FRACTURING/PRESSURE PUMPING
SC Bowhead II, Stage Completions
INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND COMPONENTS
WellWatcher Advisor Real-Time Intelligent Completion Software, Schlumberger
IOR/EOR/REMEDIATION
Torus Insert Safety Valve, Baker Hughes, a GE company
NON-FRACTURING COMPLETIONS
IMAGE Frac™ 2.0 pressure-based fracture maps, Reveal Energy Services
ONSHORE RIGS
AutoTong® System, Weatherford
SUBSEA SYSTEMS
Helically Grooved Buoyancy for VIV Suppression, Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc.