Oil & Gas Middle East and Refining & Petrochemicals Middle East Awards 2018 finalists revealed

The shortlist for the nominations has been sent to the five judges – Luciano Poli, president, India, Middle East and North Africa, Dow; Vivek Chandra, CEO and founder, Texas LNG; Nicholas Kjaer, general manager, Middle East, Churchill Drilling Tools; Ben Oudman, regional manager, DNV GL, oil and gas, Continental Europe, Eurasia, Middle East, India and Africa; and Annabel Green, chief technology officer, Tendeka – who comprise the jury panel this year, and who will now consider the merit of each and every entry, and decide the winner.

This year, the ‘CSR Initiative of the Year’ Award will be adjudged by the editors of Oil & Gas Middle East and Refining & Petrochemicals Middle East, as ‘Editor’s Choice’ from the nominations received.

The sponsors of this year’s Awards are Petrofac (gold sponsor), Proserv, Restrata and Alsuwaiket & Albusaies.

The shortlist for the 2018 Oil & Gas Middle East and Refining & Petrochemicals Middle East Awards is given below:

Downstream Project of the Year
1) ADNOC Sour Gas Project (Shah Plant) – ADNOC Sour Gas
2) Duqm Refinery Project – Duqm Refinery and Petrochemical Industries Company
3) Muscat-Sohar Products Pipeline and Al Jifnain Terminal Project – Orpic

HSE Initiative of the Year
1) Artificial Lift Safety System – Kuwait Oil Company
2) Asset Integrity Management System – Leading-edge Implementation Strategies –Yanbu NGL Fractionation Department, Saudi Aramco
3) CCS and CO2-EOR Pilot Project – Saudi Aramco
4) Happiness Contributes to Improved HSE Performance – AlMansoori Specialized Engineering
5) Occupational Exposure Monitoring Strategy – ADNOC Sour Gas
6) Safe Behaviour Observation Tour – Halliburton Energy Services

Logistics Service Provider of the Year
1) RSA Talke
2) Schmidt ME Logistics
3) Tristar Transport

Oil & Gas Woman of the Year
1) Nas-ha Mohammed Nasser Al Fallahi, general manager, Corporate Affairs, Duqm Refinery and Petrochemical Industries Company
2) Sarah Baradah, Head of Legal and Board Secretary, Saudi Aramco Total Refining & Petrochemical Company
3) Sudha Nakka Papisetty, Team Leader HSE Planning and Performance, ADNOC Sour Gas

Oilfield Services Company of the Year
1) AlMansoori Specialized Engineering
2) Nexans
3) Schneider Electric

Operational Excellence Strategy of the Year
1) Multi-Million Dollar Cost Savings in Management of Sulphur Deposition in Sour Reservoir E&P – Saudi Aramco
2) On-the-Job Training Strategy – Sadara Chemical Company
3) Zero Ethane Flaring Project – Yanbu NGL Fractionation Department, Saudi Aramco

Technical Innovation of the Year
1) Container Quick Flow – Schmidt ME Logistics
2) Cyber Security Center of Excellence – Honeywell
3) Downhole Corrosion and Scale Monitoring Tool – Saudi Aramco
4) Proscient – Industry’s First Software Platform for Operational Excellence – Petrotechnics
5) TransCoil Rigless Deployed Electric Submersible Pump System – Saudi Aramco/BHGE Joint Endeavour
6) Waterflood Monitoring with Surface-to-borehole Electromagnetics – Saudi Aramco/Schlumberger Joint Endeavour

Training Initiative/Programme of the Year
1) Geoscience Train Programme – Saudi Aramco
2) GTSC Professional Fireman Training Initiative – AlMansoori Specialized Engineering
3) Trainee Development Framework – Orpic

Young Oil & Gas Professional of the Year
1) Abrar Alabbad, geologist, Saudi Aramco
2) Fajer Ahmad, petroleum engineer, Kuwait Oil Company
3) Mohammed Al-Ghazal, operations supervisor, Saudi Aramco
4) Nasser Al Riyami, process production chemists, Petroleum Development Oman
5) Osamma Abid, strategic finance supervisor, McDermott
6) Shamael Al-Shuhail, technology solutions architect, Saudi Aramco
7) Tariq Almubarak, instructor – formation damage and stimulation, Upstream Professional Development Center, Saudi Aramco