Innovators took the Innovation Zone stage
Innovation Zone presented by ConocoPhillips gave startups and companies a platform to pitch their cutting-edge energy tools and technologies. The presentations were designed to combat the current challenges of the industry and bring awareness to progressive energy solutions available on the market today. After reviewing over 200 applications, 32 innovators were selected to present on stage at the 23rd World Petroleum Congress and compete for the Energy Innovator Award.
Finalists

AMERICAN ROBOTICS
The future of drones is here. Unlock actionable insights from the air with your own robotic workforce. Image and analyze more area and higher resolutions than ever before possible. Detect, track and predict everything that happens on your well pad, solar field, power plant, pipeline, farm, or other commercial asset. Everything is automated, from landing to charging to data processing. Once installed, Scout systems will run missions autonomously, collecting, processing, and analyzing data. Never touch a remote control again.
Visit our website: www.american-robotics.com.

ASETS-LUX
Choice around infrastructure and energy projects, we need to entirely reinvent the way we deliver our energy projects. “Design one and replicate many,” would facilitate us to reach this target. We envision our products help achieve and accelerate design cycle by offering integrated solutions with improved options and accuracy. Cutting edge IDS™ product that enhances focuses on achieving develop single source engineering solution that improves efficiency and minimize gap between design and order execution. We provide the plant owner a complete 3D visualization of their asset, at the same time our technology is in the cloud. This allows owners to have “Digital twin” created In reality models and use it with Reality, while keeping the engineering contractors happy by having smart parametric approach templates.
Visit our website at www.asetslux.com.

BIOPLAND ENERGY
We are a boutique consulting firm that aims to unlock the hidden value of our clients’ oil and gas properties, powered by our OILFREEWAVE® Nanotechnology. In current uncertain times, there is little room for mistakes. Therefore, the decision-making of E&P companies must integrate deep technical knowledge with business-conscious deeds. Therefore, our specialists are the right choice when thinking about improved well productivity, water control, chemical IOR / EOR, strategic field development, numerical reservoir simulation, and economic evaluations.
Visit our website at www.bonpland.energy.

BOSTON DYNAMICS
Boston Dynamics’ mission is to imagine and create exceptional robots that enrich people’s lives. Building machines that can approximate the mobility, dexterity and agility of people and animals is a grand challenge. Curiosity and respect for the natural world are at the heart of our work on robots. We see products derived from this work as the next step in the human history of building machines to reduce the danger, repetition and physically difficult aspects of work.
Visit our website at www.bostondynamics.com.

CERAPHI ENERGY
CeraPhi Energy is a technology developer enabling clean energy from proprietary innovative technology solutions using existing liabilities from oil and gas and the utility sector to undertake a sustainable long terms energy transition supporting asset owners meet their clean energy transition in the race to net zero and underpinning ESG mandates in sustainable manner to achieve long term objectives, cleaning up the planet one megawatt at a time using the heat beneath our feet.
Visit our website at www.ceraphi.com.

CHAINPARENCY
We are a blockchain technology company focused on the issues of trust and authenticity. Our GoTrace traceability system is highly scalable and enables all stakeholders in a supply chain to digitize records and to participate in global digital traceability. Hardware, software, and cloud agnostic, GoTrace is a “mobile-first” turnkey solution as well as modular, capable of being configured and integrated with legacy or third-party systems. Our solutions area ideal for ESG, operational, and compliance needs and for achieving transparent and responsible supply chains.
Visit our website at www.chainparency.com.

CRITERION ENERGY PARTNERS
Criterion Energy Partners is an exploration and production company developing distributed energy projects that are co-located with a commercial and industrial customer to provide combined heating and power which helps reduce emissions and improve operating efficiency using heat from the Earth. Our mission is to create a more sustainable world by making geothermal energy projects commercially viable everywhere.
Visit our website at www.criterionep.com.

CRUXOCM
Just as planes have autopilot to assist—but not replace—pilots, CruxOCM enables the autonomous control rooms of tomorrow, working alongside control room operators within the safety constraints of today. Our revolutionary technology leverages machine learning and advanced physics-based methodologies to uncover unforeseen efficiencies in heavy industrial control rooms such as energy, utilities, renewables and beyond to maximize ROI, without ever compromising safety.

DATAVEDIK
dataVediK is a Houston based AI/ML startup focused on sustainable living. dataVediK’s DataMoksha™ Technology Platform Empowers Energy Companies with Performance Optimization, Energy Transition and Carbon Footprint Reduction by optimizing the operations across their life cycle, using the power of AI and Machine Learning. It is built by a team of domain experts, data scientists and software Engineers using seamless integration of Physics with Machine Learning, cutting edge technologies and agile software practices resulting in a scalable, reproducible, repeatable and integrated end-user centric platform. It is a horizontally and vertically integrated platform with apps which seamlessly interact with each other.
Visit our website at www.datavedik.com.

DRILLDOCS COMPANY
By deploying a robust, easy-to-install and maintain, surface-based deep learning vision system focused at the rig’s shale shakers, DrillDocs generates unique measurements and data about the size, shape, and quantity of rocks returning to the surface. Through edge computing, the data to monitor, alert, and advise will be delivered to drilling team members via smart screen, EDR, or smartphone, giving them more context on what’s happening downhole to improve their decision making.
Visit our website at www.drilldocs.com.

DRISHYA AI LABS INC.
AI alone can help reduce ten to twenty percent of GHGs by monitoring, predicting and reducing emissions. 15% of energy sector’s total GHG emissions come from Oil & Gas operations and this is what Drishya targets. Drishya is a DeepTech company that uses AI to help Oil and Gas companies meet their ESG goals while making their operations energy efficient and cost effective. Our solutions encompass Engineering Digitalisation and AI/ML enablement.
As we make energy intelligent, we make it clean. For a gas processing plant, we can prevent tonnes of CO2 emissions by AI based stabilisation of controls which prevent flaring. Our AI solutions to help increase Energy efficiency and reduce toxic waste in Oil Sand operations by optimising evaporator operations. We have trained AI to see, read and understand drawings like piping & Instrument diagrams the way an engineer does. Our system reduces the time to do tasks like fugitive emissions studies from 50 to 60 hours to minutes, leading to 10% reduction in engineering costs or over 20 billion dollars of impact in Canada alone. Our SaaS based technology coupled with GTM partnerships with EPCs, Data automation companies and industry consortia is allowing us to gain faster traction. While our beachhead market is Canadian oil and gas industry, our AI solutions can be deployed in can be deployed in Pulp & Paper, Petrochemical, Pharmaceutical, Food Processing & Waste Water industries.
Think Intelligent Energy, Think Drishya, that’s our motto.
Visit our website at drishya.ai

ENGAGE
At ENGAGE our mission is to simplify the B2B transaction process by automating financial workflows. Simply digitizing paper processes has been commercialized by many solutions, however, ENGAGE is the first to use predictive scheduling and data validation to reduce touchpoints and eliminate redundant processes, thus changing the way transactions are scheduled, managed and approved. Additionally, layering on ENGAGE’s E-invoicing platform automates your workflows end-to-end, from scheduling services all the way through payment processing. One automated platform, order to payment.
Visit our website at engagemobilize.com.

EVERACTIVE
Everactive delivers the most scalable and cost-effective digital transformation solutions. The company’s proprietary low-power energy harvesting and wireless technology enables completely batteryless and always-on Internet of Things systems. Ruggedized for harsh industrial settings, Everactive Edge devices provide continuous insight into asset health across a range of equipment and throughout entire plants and facilities. The company has offices in Silicon Valley, Ann Arbor, and Charlottesville.
Visit our website at www.everactive.com.

FROM THE FUTURE
From the Future is a leader in developing highly engaging and interactive virtual reality software. We create custom, next generation VR applications with unlimited possibilities for sales, training, education, therapy, and more. FTF has been creating virtual environments for decades. The zenith of that experience is the DRIVE (Distributed Real-time Interactive Virtual Environment) platform and the Hololab Training system designed to deliver revolutionary efficiency and effectiveness in learning.
Visit our website at www.ftfvr.com.

HESS CORPORATION
Hess believes innovation is a key to becoming the best performing energy investment and most trusted energy partner. In 2019, our Observation Lateral project was executed to map drainage and fracture growth – the culmination of a decade of data gathering aimed at increasing well productivity and recovery. We’ve now applied these learnings to automation and real-time optimization of fracturing operations through a unique collaboration between Hess and Halliburton, combining Halliburton’s automation technology and Hess’ development expertise. Real-time measurements were combined with automation and machine learning to achieve the first-ever autonomous frac. These improvements add significant value while reducing environmental impact.
Visit our website at www.hess.com.

INFLOW CONTROL
InflowControl’s focus is to provide technology to oil and gas companies which supports them in ‘Making Better Wells’. AICV® technology enables oil companies to greatly lower production costs by reducing and/or stopping unwanted gas and water production yet increasing oil production and recovery.
Visit our website at inflowcontrol.no.

INGU
INGU is changing the economics of pipeline integrity programs by offering subscription-based solutions that put greater control in the hands of operators, while eliminating downtime and conventional engineering costs. INGU’s Pipers® solution gives greater visibility across the entire pipeline infrastructure, improving planning, decision-making, and operational control. The self-serve inline inspection model is an industry first, and is designed to work in operational lines, no matter the diameter, material or configuration. Pipers® Inline Inspection as a Service uses free-floating micro inline sensors and advanced data analytics to detect leaks, deposits, and changes in wall condition that threaten pipeline performance and safety.

INTELLIVIEW TECHNOLOGIES INC.
An industry trusted innovator, IntelliView has developed the leak detection technology that increases your confidence in your monitoring capability. Our scalable, intelligent cameras watch sites 24/7 and automatically detect and report liquid/gas leaks as soon as they start. The edge-based system delivers high detection accuracy (even of small leaks and in any weather), customizability and reliability using advanced thermal imaging and patented/proprietary artificial intelligence implemented in real time. Proven in onshore and offshore applications, the solution enables remote visual verification of alarms – saving operators time and money while mitigating/averting HSE impacts.
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Visit our website at www.intelliviewtech.com.

IONADA CARBON SOLUTIONS LLC
Ionada is a provider of modular carbon capture systems that reduce carbon emissions from the hard to decarbonize industries such as energy and marine to reduce the impact of global warming. Ionada’s team includes international scientists, engineers and technicians that have developed breakthrough technologies to reduce carbon emissions. Ionada services the global market with operations in Europe, United Kingdom and the Americas.
Visit our website at ionada.com.

NESH
Nesh creates Subject Matter Avatars for your company so that you never lose any knowledge from your team. Nesh is like a combination of Google’s search, IBM Watson’s domain understanding, and Alexa’s conversations tailored for your industry, capable of understanding corporate terminology. Nesh can connect to publicly available or private data and allows users to have a natural conversation with it and lets them proceed with the confidence that they have the right information driving their strategy.
Visit our website at hellonesh.io.

OCOCHEM
OCOchem helps manufacturers, energy producers and utilities decarbonize and cost-reduce their operations and their products by deploying on-site modular electrolyzer equipment which electrochemically converts CO2 emissions into revenue-generating green carbon-neutral industrial gases, chemicals, and liquid hydrogen carriers including hydrogen, oxygen, carbon monoxide formic acid, and formate salts. OCOchem: Converting Carbon to Store Energy.
Visit our website at www.ocochem.com.

OILIFY
The WhaleShark gas and solids separator has set a new benchmark in downhole separation performance. Downhole separation of gas and solids for sucker rod pumping continues to be a significant challenge, particularly in horizontal wells. An advancement in downhole separation has been achieved by realizing there was an opportunity to intentionally take advantage of transient multiphase flow conditions where liquids and solids flow reversals exist. Multiple case studies in this presentation demonstrate that taking advantage of multiphase flow reversals can enhance downhole separation performance and capacity, while at the same time lower operational risk.
Visit our website at www.oilify.com.

PARASANTI
Parasanti is a veteran-led and founded technology company based out of Austin, Texas that provides integrated hardware and software solutions for the government, advanced energy, and space sectors. These solutions are hardware and software-driven and focused on bringing advanced analytics to the extreme edge through data orchestration software and edge computing hardware designed for sensor fusion and AI/ML enablement.
Visit our website at www.parasanti.com.

REDSHIFT ENERGY, INC

REDSHIFT ENERGY, INC.
RedShift Energy, Inc., is developing Hydrogen and Sulfur Recovery Technology (HSRT), an innovative plasma process that dissociates hydrogen sulfide (H2S) into hydrogen and sulfur, without carbon emissions. Conventional Claus-based Sulfur Recovery Systems miss the opportunity to recover hydrogen. Thermodynamically, H2S is the cheapest source of carbon-free hydrogen when paired with renewable electricity. HSRT employs patented modular and scalable systems that retain their economic advantage from upstream to downstream. Deploying this disruptive technology will effectively and economically process H2S, while reducing emissions of carbon dioxide from Steam Methane Reforming hydrogen production. HSRT will help companies meet environmental goals.
Visit our website at www.rsenrg.com.

SATELYTICS
Satelytics is a cloud-based geospatial analytics software suite. Multispectral and hyperspectral imagery is gathered from satellites, UAVs, planes, and fixed cameras, and processed to provide both alerts and qualitative results for our customers. Data can be gathered on up to a daily basis and results sent to customers within hours. This includes the specific problem, location, magnitude, and even qualitative information, which minimize cost, impact, and operational disruption for our clients.
Visit our website at www.satelytics.com.

SENSLYTICS CORPORATION
Senslytics is a hybrid AI software company that builds Forewarning applications using its proprietary Intuition Technology. Forewarning applications can provide deterministic inference of high-stake events on real-time basis saving millions of dollars by optimizing operations or mitigating risks. Intuition Technology is a causation-based ML providing deterministic inferences for complex state changes that require experts’ qualitative interpretation. Senslytics partnered with Shell through Shell GameChanger program and delivered the real-time Contamination Forewarning application which is now being jointly commercialized. Senslytics is in talks with other oil majors and service companies. The Total Available Market is estimated to be in Billions of dollars.
Visit our website at www.senslytics.com.

SIERRA-OLYMPIC TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Sierra-Olympic Technologies Inc. is a global supplier of advanced infrared cameras and components, with a specialty in developing fully-functioning, low SWaP systems for high-demand integration customers. Located in Hood River, Oregon, Sierra-Olympic has been an industry innovator in thermal imaging technology for more than 25 years. The company delivers sensors, optics, components, and complete custom solutions for commercial, military, government, academic and OEM customers around the world. Among Sierra-Olympic’s key innovations, the Ventus OGI is an industry-leading, 640 x 512 resolution cooled mid-wave optical gas imaging camera designed to detect and visualize hydrocarbon gasses.
Visit our website at www.sierraolympic.com.

SOURCENERGY
Sourcenergy, (www.sourcenergy.com) an MIT spinout based in Houston, Texas, is the technology leader in upstream energy and water intelligence. Sourcenergy applies artificial intelligence and machine learning to detect, analyze and visualize upstream energy and water activity earlier, more completely and more accurately than any other source, delivering actionable insights through a geospatial data-as-a-service platform. The company has been granted 14 U.S. patents for its innovative energy intelligence methods integrating satellite imagery, mobile GPS tracking, regulatory filings and other unconventional data sources. Services include FracScape real-time frac crew tracking, DirtWork Alert well pad detection to predict drilling before permits and Sourcewater Geo induced seismicity risk analytics.
Visit our website at www.sourcenergy.com.

TAUREX DRILL BITS
Taurex is the fasting growing PDC drill bit company delivering drilling and completion products to the oil and gas industry. Taurex is committed to the digital transformation of the industry, leading the way in PDC forensic analysis through its patent pending Automated Metrology Laboratory, producing fresh perspectives on bit design as well as cutter and material advancement. By collaborating with our customers and industry experts, Taurex is dedicated to building the bit company the industry deserves to get Operators to One Bit faster. Run with the Bull!
Visit our website at www.taurexbits.com.

TAUROB ROBOTIC INSPECTION
Taurob develops and offers fully autonomous ground robots for routine operations and inspection on industrial sites. Our robots can perform missions under harsh environmental conditions (e.g. rain, cold, explosive gas) and gather video, audio and sensor data. This data is transmitted in real time to the cloud where it is further analysed and processed (e.g. detection of gas leaks or corrosion degradation). Implementing Taurob Robotic Inspection into your industrial environment can help to take human personnel out of harm’s way, reduce emissions, improve plant up-time and provide a more continuous monitoring presence on site.
Visit our website at www.taurob.com.

TERRAPIN GEOTHERMICS
Terrapin Geothermics (Terrapin) is an end-to-end project development firm focused on generating emission-free, baseload energy from industrial waste heat sources and conventional geothermal resources. Terrapin is industry agnostic, but primarily operates in the oil and gas sector to support energy leaders’ decarbonization efforts. Terrapin’s turnkey energy solutions help the oil and gas industry deliver effective ESG and scope 2 emissions reductions projects that provide their shareholders with competitive returns and their consumers with reliable heat and power. Founded in 2016, Terrapin is privately owned and based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Visit our website at www.terrapingeo.com.

TOPL
Topl is an impact technology economy empowering businesses and corporations to unlock the value of their positive impact. Our secret sauce? The Topl Blockchain, the world’s first blockchain built for tracking, tokenizing, and monetizing positive impact.
Using the Topl Blockchain — which consumes 10 million times less energy than earlier blockchain yet has greater security — our partners are already changing the world. The Topl Blockchain tracks cacao from farm to chocolate bar, and diamonds from mine to marriage. It can ensure that COVID-19 tests remain cold and fully effective. The Topl Blockchain is revolutionizing supply chain, finance, sustainability, agriculture, and a growing number of other areas.
The Topl Blockchain can support projects across borders and industries; our blockchain users experience a digital and sustainable transformation. What does this bring?
New data capture. New storytelling. New smart assets and markets. Even whole new economies built on the Topl Blockchain.
Visit our website at www.topl.co.

WATER LENS, LLC
Water Lens has built a technologically differentiated platform revolutionizing water testing for any water-intensive industry. The Company’s mobile system provides lab-quality analyses of over 30 water quality parameters water on location with the lowest environmental impact relative to traditional testing methods. Water Lens’ system enables average field staff to test complex waters in as little as 10 minutes, supporting: real-time management of water-related issues; corrosion prevention and scale inhibition; reduction of environmental impact; and the optimization of carbon & water footprint. As a result, our customers can make real-time decisions to optimize operations and reduce reliance on fresh water.
Visit our website at www.waterlensusa.com.
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