Saudi Aramco wins several awards at ADIPEC 2018

Saudi Aramco received a number of accolades and recognitions at the 2018 Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference (ADIPEC) Awards, the firm said on its website.

EXPEC ARC, Aramco’s geophysics technology team, won the Outstanding Project of The Year for Driving Performance and Efficiency Award. They won the award for their Seismic acquisition technology dispersed source array (3D-DSA) project.

Aramco’s Research and Development Center won the Breakthrough Research of The Year for their Project: the detection of corrosion under insulation (DCUI).

Also, Shamael Al-Shuhail, a technology solutions architect at Saudi Aramco, was recognized as Young ADIPEC Engineer of The Year.

ADIPEC offered a global platform for showcasing Saudi Aramco’s role as the world’s leading integrated energy and chemicals producer.

In-line with the conference theme of “Digitalization in Energy,” the company highlighted its use of technology and innovation to maximize assets and improve operational efficiency, reliability and productivity.

In the “Growth, Vertical Integration and Expansion” panel on Nov. 13, Abdulaziz Al-Judaimi, Senior Vice President of Downstream, spoke about Aramco’s strategy of expanding and integrating downstream operations across the value chain from oil supply and marketing to refining, petrochemicals and lubricants. This will help Aramco attract new revenue streams and broaden economic opportunities, including crude oil to chemicals conversion technologies.

Aramco’s profiled technologies included SWIM-R, a shallow-water inspection and repair robot capable of examining underwater assets, enhancing safety and cost efficiency; and SAIR, a modular inspection robotic technology for asset integrity monitoring.

The company’s exhibit, which ran from Nov. 12-15, also offered an immersive virtual reality display allowing visitors to experience frac-site, drilling and offshore rig simulations and fire safety visualizations on 3D screens.