Top 25 Oil and Gas Technology Providers

Congratulations to all the organisations that have made it to this year’s list!

[Editor’s note: This list is not a ranking. Companies are listed in alphabetical order.]

ABB

Switzerland-based ABB is considered as a technology leader in electrification and automation, enabling a more sustainable and resource-efficient future. The company’s solutions connect engineering know-how and software to optimise how things are manufactured, moved, powered and operated. The company claims that as a part of its ambition to enable a low-carbon society, it is partnering with customers, suppliers and other leading organisations to reduce emissions across the value chain. In order to achieve carbon neutrality in its perations, ABB has committed to three initiatives of the climate group of global companies.

By 2030, ABB will electrify its fleet of more than 10,000 vehicles, source 100% electricity from renewables, and improve energy efficiency across its operations, as a part of its green transformation.

Air Liquide Engineering & Construction

Air Liquide is a world leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health, with a presence in 78 countries, with approximately 64,500 employees, and serving more than 3.8 million customers and patients.
In the Middle East, the company draws on the expertise of more than 1,100 employees, operates 34 sites and serves customers in sectors including oil & gas, refining & petrochemicals, metal fabrication, construction, electronics, food and beverage and healthcare.

The Air Liquide Group has made significant new commitments to sustainability with a focus on the abatement of CO₂ emissions. For more than 50 years, Air Liquide has been developing unique expertise in the mastery of the entire hydrogen chain (production, storage, and distribution).

In the GCC region, Air Liquide oversees its growing operations and investments, including the group’s largest single industrial investment and most significant ‘over the fence’ Hydrogen contract – Air Liquide’s Yanbu hydrogen production site in Saudi Arabia, providing hydrogen to the Yanbu Aramco Sinopec Refining Company (Yasref) as well as a growing number of large and small scale industries in Yanbu and Jubail (Saudi Arabia’s leading industrial cities).
The group’s hydrogen infrastructure in Yanbu consists of two global-scale hydrogen production units and one purification unit, which together
boast a 340,000 Nm³/hour production capacity, connected to its hydrogen pipeline network.

AspenTech

AspenTech is a global software leader helping industries at the forefront of the world’s dual challenge to meet the increasing demand for resources from a rapidly growing population in a profitable and sustainable manner.

AspenTech solutions address complex environments where it is critical to optimize the asset design, operation and maintenance lifecycle. The company through its unique combination of deep domain expertise and innovation, customers in capital-intensive industries can run their assets safer, greener, longer and faster to improve their operational excellence. Aspen Technology operated with more than 60 locations worldwide and its solutions address complex environments where it is critical to optimise the asset design, operation and maintenance lifecycle. It claims that through its unique combination of deep domain expertise and award-winning innovation, customers in capital-intensive industries can improve their operational excellence while achieving sustainability goals.

The company claims that it is helping companies at the forefront of the world’s dual challenge meet the increasing demand for resources from a rapidly growing population with the expectation of a higher living standard in a profitable and sustainable manner.
The company is betting big on digitalisation in the downstream industry and believes that digitalisation with its promise of reducing inefficiencies and predicting failures, is a key enabler not just to profitability but also to reaching sustainability goals. According to the company higher efficiency means reduced emissions, waste and energy consumption in existing assets, something that can also be tracked and reported on.

Aveva

AVEVA is a global leader in industrial software, sparking ingenuity to drive responsible use of the world’s resources. The company’s secure industrial cloud platform and applications enable businesses to harness the power of their information and improve collaboration with customers, suppliers and partners.

As per the country, over 20,000 enterprises in over 100 countries rely on AVEVA to help them deliver life’s essentials: safe and reliable energy, food, medicines, infrastructure and more. By connecting people with trusted information and AI-enriched insights, AVEVA enables teams to engineer efficiently and optimize operations, driving growth and sustainability.

In the downstream segment, the UK-headquartered firm helps companies to achieve superior performance by driving value, agility, and sustainability throughout their asset and operations lifecycles. Its end-to-end value chain optimisation helps redefine the processes, run what-if scenarios, enable deeper collaboration, reduce value leaks, sustain productivity and innovation, and ultimately make better decisions quicker.

According to the company, its unified engineering solutions bring together engineering, design, and simulation to enable global multi-discipline teams to work concurrently in a common, data-centric environment for maximum transparency and collaboration.

BASF

BASF create chemistry for a sustainable future. The company combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. It claims a leadership position in the chemical business.

Around 111,000 employees in the BASF Group contribute to the success of its customers in nearly all sectors and almost every country in the world. Its portfolio comprises six segments: chemicals, materials, industrial solutions, surface technologies, nutrition & care and agricultural solutions. BASF generated sales of $83 billion in 2021. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchange in Frankfurt (BAS) and as American Depositary Receipts (BASFY) in the US.

BASF has been active in the Middle East for more than a century, supplying and customizing its solutions for almost every industry. With close to 300 employees in the region we have established our presence in seven countries and work cohesively to meet the local market demands towards our corporate purpose to “create chemistry for a sustainable future”.

The company’s catalysts division is the world’s leading supplier of environmental and process catalysts. According to BASF, the division develops and produces mobile emissions catalysts as well as process catalysts and technologies. It is also the home of BASF’s battery materials business and provides precious and base metals sourcing, recycling and management services. It is expanding its leading role in catalyst technology through continuous process and product innovation.

BD Energy

Based in Houston, Texas BD energy Systesms is a regarded as the world leader in plant revamps and modernisations specialised in executing turnkey projects, revamps, modernisations and supply of engineered process equipment including furnaces for, ammonia, methanol, hydrogen and GTL plants, refinery plants, steel plants, and petrochemical plants.

The company claims its proven records on such revamps indicate the return on investment (ROI) for efficiency and capacity increases in plants is less than 2 years. BD Energy Systems has executed more than 90 successful projects on ammonia, methanol, bydrogen and refinery plants of various designs.

The range of projects covers steam methane reformers, secondary reformers, boilers, burner replacements, selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems, selective non-catalytic reduction (SNCR) systems, combustion air preheater systems, and many more.
It claims that with every project undertaken, BD Energy Systems uses its experience to ensure timely and accurate success of the project. The company claims its solution also helps downstream companies to reduce emissions.

Chevron Lummus Global

Chevron Lummus Global (CLG) is a joint venture between Chevron USA Inc and Lummus Technology, and the company is a leading process technology licensor for refining hydro-processing technologies and alternative source fuels, as well as a global leader in catalyst system supply.

As per the company website, it can help refining companies faced with stiff challenges of producing high-quality transportation fuels as well as the requirement of a certain percentage of their fuels to be produced from renewable feed sources.

The company offers a full spectrum of refining technologies to produce clean fuels and premium base oils plus the most complete bottom-of-the-barrel solution for upgrading heavy oil residues. . According to the company, its research and development experts are continuously seeking advancements in technology and catalysts that will improve operating economics for its customers next project. The company also offers a complete engineering services, from conceptual studies to full engineering design packages.

DuPont

DuPont de Nemours , commonly shortened to DuPont, is an American multinational chemical company set up in 1802 by French-American chemist and industrialist Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours. Now, DuPont is a global innovation leader with technology-based materials and solutions that help transform industries and everyday life.

The company said it is pursuing new technologies and performance materials that enable consumer industry designs to be smaller, more complex, more reliable, and more powerful than they could ever imagine.

The New York listed company provides extensive global expertise across its portfolio in key applications. The company’s offering includes critical processes, equipments, products, technology and services, which enable an array of industrial markets, including phosphate fertiliser, non-ferrous metals, oil refining, petrochemicals and chemicals, to minimise their environmental impact and optimise productivity. It also offers a suite of leading emission control systems with designs and process chemistries tailored to specific application requirements

Exxon Mobil

Starting from regional marketer of kerosene, Exxon Mobil has evolved to become a globally advanced energy and chemical innovator, and one of the largest publicly traded companies
in the world.

Exxon Mobil is an industry leader in almost every aspect of the energy and chemical manufacturing businesses. It operate facilities or market products in most of the world’s countries, explore oil and natural gas in six continents, and research and develop next-generation technologies to help meet the dual challenge of fueling global economies while addressing the risks of climate change.

The company is among the largest publicly traded international energy and petrochemical companies, and it is continuously working towards creating solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs. The corporation’s primary businesses – upstream, product solutions and Low Carbon Solutions – provide products that enable modern life, including energy, chemicals, lubricants, and lower-emissions technologies.

Evonik

Evonik is one of the world leaders in specialty chemicals. The company is active in more than 100 countries around the world and generated sales of $16 billion and an operating profit of $2.38 billion in 2021. Evonik goes far beyond chemistry to create innovative, profitable and sustainable solutions for customers.

The company claims that its 33,000 strong work force strive for a common purpose that is to improve the life of consumers today and in future also. The company also claims that its path breaking research on catalysts and technology can make the difference. And improving the carbon footprint of petrochemical and downstream processes is at the heart of our catalyst development efforts. Many of our existing catalysts already support the lowest carbon footprint alternative for a specific application, proven by detailed lifecycle analyses.

Fluor

Fluor provides professional and technical solutions to deliver safe, well‑executed, capital‑efficient engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) projects to clients around the world. With early client engagement, it provides the conceptual analysis, review and challenge to recommend an integrated technology solution, whether from the company’s suite of proprietary processes, or the best available technology licences, to deliver a commercially viable and predictable operating facility.

The company has also delivered renewable and biofuel projects, including bioethanol, biodiesel and sustainable aviation fuel. A chemicals EPC leader, Fluor helps clients produce green chemicals using renewable feedstocks and carbon-free energy while also minimising waste through capital-efficient chemicals and plastic recycling.

With headquarters in Irving, Texas, it has been providing engineering, procurement and construction services for more than 100 years. The company has extensive experience in assisting clients in evaluating and selecting process technology requirements, which can help them in maximising profitablity by reducing unwarranted expenses.

Grace

Grace Catalysts Technologies is a global leader in process catalysts, developing and manufacturing catalysts and related technologies used in refining, petrochemical and other chemical manufacturing applications. The company through its two industry-leading business segments—Catalysts Technologies and Materials Technologies—provide innovative products, technologies, and services that enhance the products and processes of its customers around the world.

The company produces and sells catalysts and related products used in refining, petrochemical and other chemical manufacturing applications. The Grace Catalysts Technologies business segment includes three main product lines are Refining Technologies, Advance Refining Technologies and Specialty catalysts.The company’s Advanced Refining Technologies is a joint venture with Chevron Products, in which it holds a 50% economic interest. Its products include hydroprocessing catalysts that are used in process reactors to upgrade heavy oils into lighter, more useful products by removing impurities such as nitrogen, sulfur and heavy metals, allowing less expensive feedstocks to be used in the petroleum refining.

Honeywell

Honeywell delivers industry specific solutions that include aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings and industry; and performance materials globally. Honeywell is a world leader in process technologies, automation solutions, advanced materials and industrial software for the refining and petrochemicals sector, helping operators improve productivity, increase efficiency and maximise the safety and security of energy production.

Supporting a sustainable energy transition, Honeywell offers solutions for carbon capture, hydrogen production and grid-scale renewable energy storage, and technologies from Honeywell are licensed by more than 6,000 refineries and plants around the world to help them more efficiently produce gasoline, diesel and renewable fuels.

Honeywell is a leading producer of refrigerants, blowing agents, aerosols and solvents, including its ultra-low global warming potential (GWP) Honeywell Solstice hydrofluoroolefin (HFO) technology, and provides a comprehensive portfolio of pioneering automation controls, field instrumentation, fuel delivery systems, cybersecurity solutions and connected utility and metering products for a wide range of industries.

Huawei

Chinese tech giant, Huawei’s oil and gas solutions have been serving 70% of the global top 20 oil and gas companies. The company cooperates with dedicated industry partners to provide sector-specific Information and Communications Technology (ICT) solutions in all scenarios to enable the transformation that transition now requires, alongside improving safety and productivity. Its innovative solutions, which embrace the oil and gas Internet of Things (IoT), digital pipelines, High-Performance Computing (HPC) and operations management, and intelligent distribution, have already been applied in 45 countries and regions around the world, serving 17 of the global top 20 oil and gas enterprises.

The Chinese tech giant also offers Oil & Gas Fields Solutions consisting of four layers: industrial terminal, IoT network, digital platform, and intelligent application, and these solutions aims to help oil and gas companies cope with the risks and costs, address data silos, as well as quickly respond to emergencies and build robust information security systems. The company claims it has extensive experience in providing intelligent connection solutions for pipeline networks and the company prides itself on continuing to consolidate the foundation for smart pipeline network construction.

KBR

Technology major KBR provides science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. The company employs approximately 28,000 people performing diverse, complex and mission-critical roles in 34 countries.
Founded in 1979, by Krikor Krikorian, Join Brince and Peter Close, KBR has been involved in offering oil and energy efficiency optimisations to its clients.

Its software embodies decades of experience in the energy and chemical industry. The company’s solution enables continuous monitoring of plant performances and also ensures that refiners and petrochemical manufacturers achieve superior results.
The company claims its portfolio of software tools are based on the industrial heritage of solving the problems faced by refiners and petrochemical manufacturers.
The company also claims that it has been a leader and trusted provider for technologies, licensing and supplying full units and key equipment in thousands of installations around the world.

From refining and petrochemicals to ammonia, fertilisers and inorganics, KBR has the portfolio to deliver pioneering and best-in-class processing technology solutions that reliably, efficiently and safely optimise a wide range of plants and facilities.

Kinetics Technology

Kinetics Technology (KT) is widely recognised as a company with very strong technological background and a great focus on process design capabilities. This derives from its traditional licensing business lines, sulphur recovery and hydrogen production, with multiple relevant units all over the world licensed by it. The company provides a full range of services to the region’s downstream industry ranging from the feasibility study, aimed to provide client with preliminary indications of the investment’s attractiveness, to the complete development of the plant, including the start-up and first operations.

Through its proprietary technologies for Gas Sweetening and Tail Gas Treatment (RAR Technology), KT provides customised engineering solutions in compliance with the most stringent environmental regulations. The company claims that its RAR proprietary technology for the process of gas sweetening, sulphur recovery and tail gas treatment is recognised as the best available technique (BAT) with the best KPIs of the market.

In the GCC region, KT was engaged by Petro-Rabigh as a specialist engineering recruitment business to add value to their supply chain, and bring a new approach to sourcing candidates with very niche skill sets.

Linde

Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2021 sales of $31 billion. The company serves a variety of end markets including chemicals & energy, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals and mining.

Linde’s industrial gases are used in countless applications, from life-saving oxygen for hospitals to high-purity & specialty gases for electronics manufacturing, hydrogen for clean fuels and much more. Linde also delivers state-of-the-art gas processing solutions to support customer expansion, efficiency improvements and emissions reductions.

Recently, Linde along with BASF and SABIC have started construction of the world’s first demonstration plant for large-scale electrically heated steam cracker furnaces.
By using electricity from renewable sources instead of natural gas, the new technology has the potential to reduce CO2 emissions of one of the most energy-intensive production processes in the chemical industry by at least 90% compared to technologies commonly used today.

Lummus Technology

Lummus Technology’s first process technology was the production of transportation fuels from bio-feeds such as molasses. During the early years, Lummus produced pot stills and condensers, scrubbing columns, caustic soda dissolvers, heat exchangers and distillation columns. Lummus Technology’s petrochemical technology portfolio includes a diverse line of chemical technologies along product lines such as styrenics, phenolics, light hydrocarbons and other assorted specialty chemicals.

The company licenses the most widely used ethylene technology in the world, with about 40% of global capacity based on our process. It also offer the Novolen gas phase polypropylene process for the production of a full range of polypropylene products.
The first process technology the company worked on was the production of transportation fuels from bio-feeds such as molasses. The company is considered as the global leader in developing process technologies that make modern life possible and focus on a more sustainable, low carbon future.

Rockwell Automation

Rockwell Automation is regarded as a leading organisation in the industrial automation and digital transformation segment. The company connects the imaginations of people with the potential of technology to expand what is humanly possible, making the world more productive and more sustainable. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Rockwell Automation employs approximately 23,000 problem solvers dedicated to addressing its customer’s problem in more than 100 countries.

The company claims its powerful process and motor controllers integrate easily with the main DCS to provide tight control and comprehensive information on refinery assets. This seamless technology integration helps refiners meet their performance objectives.
The Wisconcin-based company claims that its integrated control and information across the enterprise help industrial companies and their people to be more productive. The company said its approach begins with a deep understanding of the customer’s best opportunities for productivity. It combines differentiated technology and domain expertise to deliver the positive business outcomes most important to you.

Schmidt-Clemens

Founded in 1879 as a steel trading company in Frankfurt, the Schmidt + Clemens (S+C) Group can look back at more than 140 years of corporate history, marked by notable continuity and lack of stagnation. Today, the company group operates on a global scale. The company claims that it has been providing steel solutions to the global downstream industry for more than 140 years.

In addition to its German headquarters in Lindlar-Kaiserau, S+C Group also operates production sites in Spain, the Czech Republic, Saudi Arabia and Malaysia.

For steam crackers, which is at the core of downstream industry, the company claims that it has developed a special material for the extreme operating conditions in steam reformers which has already been employed successfully in many large projects worldwide. With the addition of carbide-forming elements such as niobium and titanium, the company claims to have achieved a unique creep strength and generate a considerable delay in the onset of creep in the material. The material also allows a reduction in wall thickness of the reformer tubes.

The Germany-based company calims that their specialists and consultants, due to their extensive experience in the petrochemical industry, know the precise interaction of material and process and can recommend the optimum application and design of its products. The company also provides special training to welders in processing its materials.

Siemens

Siemens has over 165-year-long history of providing innovative and cutting edge research to a wide array of industries. The company’s portfolio comprises rotating equipment, electrical equipment, and automation solutions for refineries, gas-to-liquid and petrochemical plants.

The company is active in more than 200 countries, focusing on the areas of electrification, automation and digitalisation. It is also the one of the world’s largest producers of energy-efficient and resource-saving technologies such as offshore wind turbine construction. It is also a leading supplier of gas and steam turbines for power generation, a major provider of power transmission solutions and a pioneer in infrastructure solutions as well as automation, drive and software solutions for industry. The company claims that through its comprehensive portfolio of products and services,it helps global downstream in achieving process optimisation to boost productivity.

The company has in-depth know-how and decades of experience in the chemical industry.
It also claims that its power supply solutions guarantee an economical and dependable electrical power supply throughout the grid, from the plant’s internal power generators to the motors and other consumer terminals.

Shell Catalysts & Technology

Shell Catalysts & Technology (SCT), a part of the global major Shell, provides leading catalysts, technical services and licensed process technologies to refiners, gas treating facilities and chemical plants around the world.

The company claims that it supplies catalysts for the critical processes that use hydrogen to upgrade and add value to refinery streams and final products. Its portfolio includes hydroprocessing catalysts for a wide variety of applications throughout the refinery, from ultra-low-sulphur diesel (ULSD) production to tail-gas treatment. The company is heavily involved with hydrocracking, where it provide both feed pretreatment and cracking catalysts. It leads the industry in catalysts that are used for residue upgrading in both fixed- and ebullated-bed reactors.

SCT is also helping operators meet these challenges and deliver these opportunities through state-of-the-art catalytic innovations and technology solutions. It has, or is developing, numerous differentiated solutions that offer attractive decarbonisation opportunities, including biofuels, carbon capture and blue hydrogen technologies.

TechnipFMC

TechnipFMC is a leading technology provider to the new energies industry; delivering fully integrated projects, products, and services.
The company claims that through its proprietary technologies and comprehensive solutions, it is transforming its clients’ project economics, helping them unlock new possibilities to develop energy resources while reducing carbon intensity and supporting their energy transition ambitions.

The company’s business are divided in two broad segments, subsea and surface technologies. Apart from these two divisions, the company also provide a host of solutions related to renewable energy. Under the brand, Deep Purple, the company offers integrated renewable energy solutions with hydrogen to form a complete, zero-emission offshore energy system. The solution can be configured to a specific energy demand and application, and includes power generation, seawater treatment, electrolysis, hydrogen storage and re-electrification.

The company claims that its energy management system enables its flexible operation – determining when to deliver power directly, when to use it for electrolysis, and when to turn hydrogen stored subsea into electricity.

Topsoe

As a part of the initiative to re-brand itself, Haldo Topsoe changed its name to Topose in April 2022. Almost 80 years ago, Haldor Topsoe established a new company based on catalysis. At that time catalysis was a little-used chemical process, but Topsoe believed that one day it could serve a huge, unmet industrial need and at the same time benefit the society.

Since then catalysis has become an indispensable part of the modern world, and is now involved in 90% of all commercially produced chemical products.
The company believes that catalysis can make expensive processes cheaper, help feed the hungry, turn worthless waste into valuable commodities, and even clean the air people breathe.

Currently, Topsoe delivers a wide range of catalysts and process technology that is essential for producing clean fuels from crude oil and waste, removing harmful emissions from power plants, and raising the efficiency of industrial processes. The company claims its mission is to combat climate change by helping its partners and customers achieve their decarbonisation and emission-reduction targets, including those in hard-to-abate sectors such as aviation, shipping, and the production of raw materials.

Tracerco

A part of the UK-based multinational specialty chemicals and sustainable technologies major Johnson Matthey, Tracero is regarded as a world leader in industrial technology with over 60 years’ experience.
It claims to find ways to measure assets that are hard to measure, helping the world’s essential industries make informed decisions. Its innovations provide new ways to safeguard its customers’ operations and help solve seemingly impossible problems. With the widest range of scanning and tracer diagnostic services on the market, Tracerco helps the refining and petrochemical industries run more efficiently, saving them millions every year.With the widest range of gamma scanning and tracer diagnostics services on the market, we help oil, gas, chemical and ethanol industries run more efficiently, saving them millions every year. The company’s services help the investigation and optimisation of production processes, allowing plant engineering and operational staff to quickly identify, improve and resolve issues.

Making these data-driven decisions can significantly reduce the costs of corrective actions and operational downtime, allowing Tracerco’s customers to maximise process performance and keep production targets on track.