Saudi Aramco & Halliburton wins at Asian Oil & Gas Awards 2025

Spoolable Reservoir Instrumentation Technology delivers permanent, real-time monitoring for advanced well management.

Saudi Aramco & Halliburton have jointly won the New Product of the Year - Saudi Arabia at the Asian Oil & Gas Awards 2025 for their pioneering Spoolable Reservoir Instrumentation Technology—a first-of-its-kind system that enables permanent, real-time downhole monitoring without interrupting production.

The technology was co-developed by Aramco’s Exploration and Petroleum Engineering Advanced Research Center (EXPEC ARC) and Halliburton, marking a significant milestone in collaborative innovation for reservoir surveillance and well optimisation.

As inflow control devices (ICDs) gain traction across the oil and gas sector for their ability to maximise hydrocarbon recovery and minimise water and gas production, operators face limitations with conventional tools. Existing methods, such as production logging tools and formation scanning imagers, are costly, require well shutdowns during intervention, and only provide intermittent data.

The award-winning Spoolable Reservoir Instrumentation Technology addresses these limitations by integrating quartz and fibre optic pressure and temperature sensors into a spoolable design that enables continuous monitoring of tubing and annulus pressures. It supports distributed, single-zone, or multi-zone applications, offering operators access to continuous multi-point temperature and pressure information across the reservoir. This capability significantly improves operational efficiency and enhances understanding of reservoir behaviour.

Developed through a collaboration between Saudi Aramco & Halliburton, the spoolable fibre optic gauge system is designed for zone performance identification, leak detection, and production optimisation in ICD completions. It provides cost-effective access to annulus and tubing pressures and integrates seamlessly with distributed acoustic sensing, distributed temperature sensing, and vertical seismic profiling systems. The first global pilot installation is scheduled in 2025.

The system significantly reduces installation time, saving up to eight hours per gauge, and eliminates the need for cable terminations and gauge mandrels. This simplifies deployment and reduces leak points by limiting connections. The technology also offers advanced diagnostic capabilities that can validate or challenge reservoir models, supporting more accurate reservoir management.

In addition, the electric spoolable multi-point reservoir monitoring system incorporates resonating quartz crystal sensors, offering high precision and low drift for inflow and outflow analysis. These sensors will be trialled in Saudi Aramco operations in parallel with the fibre optic system, marking the first deployment of spoolable quartz sensors in the Middle East.

The Asian Oil and Gas Awards recognises the most outstanding players in Asia's oil and gas sector. The awards programme is for companies that have risen above various challenges and remained steadfast despite a very challenging environment.

The Asian Oil & Gas Awards is presented by Asian Power Magazine. To view the full list of winners, click here. If you want to join the 2026 awards programme and be acclaimed for your company's outstanding contributions and initiatives in the oil and gas sector in Asia, please contact Danica Avila at [email protected].