2019 Meritorious Awards for Engineering Innovation

HOUSTON, March 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The annual Meritorious Awards for Engineering Innovation (MEAs) honors engineering excellence and achievement in the upstream petroleum industry. The MEA program recognizes new products and technologies that demonstrate innovation in concept, design and application. E&P magazine editors will present medallions and plaques to the 2019 winners of Hart Energy's MEAs on Monday, May 6 - the opening day of the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston's NRG Center. The May 2019 issue of E&P will showcase the winning technologies.

"Our magazine and its predecessors have consistently honored technical innovation that allows our industry to overcome seemingly impossible challenges," said Jennifer Presley, Executive Editor of E&P. "The Meritorious Awards for Engineering Innovation reflect the best of the best in technological advancement."

The expert panel of judges included engineers and scientists from operating and consulting companies worldwide. Each judge was assigned a category that best utilized his or her area of expertise. Judges were excluded from categories in which they or their companies have a business interest.

     
              The 2019 Honorees:





     
              ARTIFICIAL LIFT



     -- Rigless Wireline Retrievable ESP               
     AccessESP





     
              DRILLBITS


      -- Dynamus(TM) PDC Drill Bit with AntiWalk
       Technology                                      
     Baker Hughes, a GE company



     -- SplitBlade PDC Bit                             
     Ulterra





     
              DRILLING FLUIDS/STIMULATION



     -- MAX-LOCK(TM) Lost Circulation Material         
     Baker Hughes, a GE company



     -- MEGADRIVE Emulsifier Package                     M-I SWACO, a Schlumberger company





     
              DRILLING SYSTEMS



     -- Active Control Device (ACD)                    
     AFGlobal





     
              EXPLORATION/GEOSCIENCE


      -- Rock Type Classification with Machine Learning 
     Emerson E&P Software





     
              FORMATION EVALUATION



     -- Concert Well Testing Live Performance          
     Schlumberger





     
              HSE


      -- Marlin(TM) "Smarter Management of Marine
       Operations"                                     
     ION Geophysical




                 HYDRAULIC FRACTURING/PRESSURE PUMPING



     -- DuraStim(R) Pump                               
     AFGlobal




                 INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND COMPONENTS



     -- SureTec                                        
     IPT Global LLC





     
              IOR/EOR/REMEDIATION


      -- FATHOM(TM) XT SUBSEA226 Black Oil Foamer       
     Baker Hughes, a GE company




                 MARINE CONSTRUCTION & DECOMMISSIONING



     -- M.O.S.T. Plus Single-Trip System               
     Weatherford



     -- Perseus(TM) Pump-Through Cutter                
     Baker Hughes, a GE company





     
              NON-FRACTURING COMPLETIONS



     -- TR1P Single-Trip Completion System             
     Weatherford





     
              ONSHORE RIGS


      -- Collar Load Support System for Stands (CLS-S)  
     Frank's International





     
              SUBSEA SYSTEMS



     -- Multiphase Compression System                  
     Schlumberger OneSubsea





     
              WATER MANAGEMENT


      -- AquaWatcher Surface Water Salinity Sensor      
     Schlumberger

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