2019 Meritorious Awards for Engineering Innovation

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Mar 14, 2019, 17:15 ET

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™ PDC Drill Bit with AntiWalk Technology	Baker Hughes, a GE company
• SplitBlade PDC Bit	Ulterra

DRILLING FLUIDS/STIMULATION
• MAX-LOCK™ 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™ "Smarter Management of Marine Operations"	ION Geophysical

HYDRAULIC FRACTURING/PRESSURE PUMPING
• DuraStim^® Pump	AFGlobal

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND COMPONENTS
• SureTec	IPT Global LLC

IOR/EOR/REMEDIATION
• FATHOM™ XT SUBSEA226 Black Oil Foamer	Baker Hughes, a GE company

MARINE CONSTRUCTION & DECOMMISSIONING
• M.O.S.T. Plus Single-Trip System	Weatherford
• Perseus™ 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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