The 2025 Gulf Energy Information Excellence Awards® were hosted on Thursday night at the Post Oak Hotel, Houston, Texas (U.S.). The black-tie event honored the energy industry's best innovations and thought leaders.
Gulf Awards continues to grow year after year. We received more than 500 nominations this year, and nearly 200 finalists. This is a nomination record break, and a testament to the progress in the technologies that are revolutionizing the oil and gas industry worldwide," said John Royall, Chief Executive Officer, Gulf Energy Information.
Awards were given to recipients in 29 categories, the full range of the oil, gas and energy industries. The innovations today are enabling operators to find, produce, transport and process hydrocarbons safely, more economically, more efficiently and more sustainably. A complete list of categories and winners appears below:
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 new ground in Carbonate Stimulation with greater 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
Hydrogen Project of the Year: Neoform H2 – Aramco Americas
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 supported by Aramco, Kuwait Oil Company, Expro, Lummus Technology, CNPC, Halliburton, Baker Hughes, QuantumPro, Inc., Superior Energy Services, T.D. Williamson and McCormick & Schmick's.