Midstream Winners Honored at 2025 Gulf Energy Information Excellence Awards in Houston
The 2025 Gulf Energy Information Excellence Awards in Houston honored this year’s top midstream innovators, including Williams Companies, Saudi Aramco, Hifi, Cenit Transporte, and Pipeline Ultraisolation Group. Winners were recognized for advancements in digital transformation, pipeline integrity, automation, and safety across the global midstream sector.
HOUSTON, TX — The 2025 Gulf Energy Information Excellence Awards® was held on Oct. 16 at the Post Oak Hotel in Houston, Texas (U.S.). The black-tie gala recognized the energy industry’s leading innovations and thought leaders.
“The Gulf Awards continues to grow each year. We received more than 500 nominations this year, with nearly 200 finalists. This is a record year for nominations, and a testament to the evolution in the technologies shaping the global oil and gas industry,” said John Royall, Chief Executive Officer, Gulf Energy Information.
Honorees received awards in 29 categories, encompassing the full breadth of the oil, gas and energy industries. Today’s innovations are enabling operators to find, produce, transport and process hydrocarbons more safely, economically, efficiently and sustainably.
A complete list of the midstream winners is as follows:
- Best Advancement in Maintenance Technology: Inlet Integrity Program – Nalco Water, an Ecolab Company
- 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 – Midstream: Full Autonomous Operation of Crude Oil Plant – Saudi Aramco
- Best Digital Transformation – Midstream: PipeTest HydroView - PipeSense, LLC
- Energy Legal Services Provider of the Year: White & Case
- Best Health, Safety or Environmental Contribution – Midstream: Mitigating Gas Flaring at Oil Producing Facilities – Saudi Aramco
- Innovation in Pipeline Engineering – Midstream: Remote Operated Inline Isolation Tool – Pipeline Ultraisolation Group (PLUG)
- Best Pipeline Integrity Technology: High-fidelity Distributed Sensing (HDS™) for pipeline monitoring – Hifi
- Energy Project of the Year – Midstream: SPM (Single Point Mooring) Valeria – Cenit Transporte y Logística de Hidrocarburos
- Most Promising Engineer – Midstream: Ramprasad Kamisetty – Flowchem LLC
- Lifetime Achievement – Midstream: Keith Leewis PhD – Leewis and Associates
- Operator of the Year: Williams Companies – Operator of the Year Midstream
The 2025 Gulf Energy Information Excellence Awards were generously sponsored by Aramco, Kuwait Oil Company, Expro, Lummus Technology, CNPC, Halliburton, Baker Hughes, QuantumPro, Inc., Superior Energy Services, T.D. Williamson and McCormick & Schmick’s.
Gulf Energy Information (Gulf) delivers premium technical and business content, as well as market intelligence solutions, to the global energy and infrastructure industries through trusted engagement. For more than 100 years, Gulf's quality content and commitment to audience needs have led our company to become the most trusted resource in B2B media for the industries we serve. Our market-leading brands—Petroleum Economist, World Oil, Pipeline & Gas Journal, Hydrocarbon Processing, Gas Processing & LNG, H2Tech, Hydrogen Economist, Carbon Economist and Underground Infrastructure—serve their markets with real-time content through digital media and in-person/virtual events. Gulf also provides market intelligence solutions to the global energy industry through Global Energy Infrastructure.
Additional information on the Gulf Energy Information Excellence Awards program can be found at www.e2awards.com.