ADIPEC 2015 Awards celebrate excellence, best practice and innovation
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates -- The winners of this year’s Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC) Awards were announced on Monday evening.
Celebrating innovation and commitment to excellence in the energy sector, the prestigious awards were presented to eight category winners during the ADIPEC Awards Gala Dinner at the Emirates Palace.
Hosted by ADNOC, the event concluded the opening day of ADIPEC 2015, one of the world’s largest oil and gas events and a global meeting point for professionals in the energy sector.
Winning entries represented individuals, companies, and projects that demonstrated qualities of merit, including ethical oversight, sustainability, and benefit to the community—setting benchmarks for best practice in the region and worldwide.
Continuing their record-breaking streak, the awards this year attracted wide international attention, receiving 501 submissions from more than 247 organizations in 32 countries. Posting continuous growth since their launch in 2010, the awards received 105 more submissions than last year, representing six more countries, and with the participation of a remarkable 147 more organizations compared with 2014.
Industry experts
Thirty-three nominees were shortlisted after the opening round of assessment by the Regional Select Jury, a panel of 28 industry experts from the region’s leading energy companies, academic institutions and professional associations. Each shortlisted entry was thoroughly screened by members of the Regional Select Jury (RSJ) at the RSJ Meeting, with the winners selected on the basis of a meticulous evaluation process.
“The ADIPEC Awards were established to highlight the exceptional efforts and work observed at local, regional and international levels,” Abdul Munim Saif Al Kindy, CEO of the Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations Ltd., (ADCO), and chairman of the ADIPEC Awards, said. “We have witnessed the development of the sector in the region through increasingly remarkable submissions year-on-year. In recognizing these high levels of commitment and dedication, we hope to set new standards in the energy industry each year.”
New to the awards this year is the ‘Best Dissertation of the Year’ Award, which recognizes exceptional academic efforts displayed by PhD students from disciplines that lend themselves to the development of the energy sector, as well as the ‘Best Practice’ Award, which identifies initiatives or programs that have proven to enhance internal business processes, structures, or cultures.
Members of the RSJ said the exceptional quality of submissions made by the participants this year presented them with a challenge when selecting the winners.
Winning two awards this year, Petroleum Development Oman has reaffirmed its commitment to achieving sustainability through innovation. Receiving the ‘Best Oil and Gas Mega Project’ Award for the world’s first and largest miscible sour gas injection project, and the ‘Best Oil and Gas Innovation or Technology (Surface)’ Award for using solar steam generation to enhance oil recovery, the company continues to demonstrate its relentless efforts to advancing the oil and gas industry.
Solar energy
“We are truly pleased and honored to have receive these awards, and we hope others will benefit from what we have learned,” said Amran Al Marhubi, technical director, Petroleum Development Oman. “Both projects are genuine examples of innovation—in the second winning project, for example, we use solar energy to generate steam that we can then inject into the wells to enhance oil recovery, saving energy and therefore reducing CO2 levels.”
Winner of the ‘Oil & Gas Woman of the Year’ Award, Hosnia Hashim, V.P. of operations at Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Co. (KUFPEC), said, “It is an honor to receive this prestigious award, and I believe that such recognition reinforces the message to all women that there is room for them to achieve success in the oil and gas industry.”
The winners of the ADIPEC 2015 Awards are as follows:
Category 1 - Best Oil & Gas Mega Project
Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) - Harweel 2AB: PDO First and World’s Largest Miscible Sour Gas Injection Project
Category 2 - Best Oil & Gas Innovation or Technology (Surface or Sub-Surface)
Surface: Petroleum Development Oman, GlassPoint Solar - Solar Steam Generation for Enhanced Oil Recovery
Sub-Surface: BP Exploration (Epsilon) Ltd. - Oman Branch, Schlumberger -
Geo-Engineered Completion Optimization in a Giant Unconventional Tight Gas Reservoir, Khazzan Field, Oman
Category 3 - Best Oil & Gas CSR/HSE Project or Initiative
ADCO - Achieving Sustainable Zero Flaring through Spiking Gas Compressor at ADCO Shah Field
Category 4 – Oil and Gas Woman of the Year
KUFPEC, Kuwait Oil Company - Ms. Hosnia Hashim, A Visionary Leader
Category 5 – Best Oilfield Services Company (Local, Regional, or International)
Local: EMDAD LLC - EMDAD LLC Integrated Service Company
Regional: Zamil Offshore Services Company - Offshore Fleet, Services Expansion & Quality Enhancement
International: Weatherford Manufacturing and Services - Ahead of the Curve, Proudly Made in the UAE
Category 6 - Young ADIPEC Engineer
Abubaker Saeed, Saudi Aramco
Category 7 - Best Dissertation of the Year
Saif Al-Ghafri, Imperial College London - Phase Behavior and Physical Properties of Reservoir Fluids Under Addition of Carbon Dioxide
Category 8 - Best Practice Award
ADMA-OPCO, NDC, Nobel-Denton, LOC - New Rig Pre-loading Procedure on Difficult Location
