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