Celebrating Engineering: Finalists of the 2025 ASME Hermann Rosen Award for Pipeline Innovation
The ROSEN Group, in collaboration with the ASME Foundation, is proud to announce the finalists of the 2025 ASME Hermann Rosen Award for Pipeline Innovation. This award honors emerging engineering talent whose ideas are shaping the future of energy infrastructure.
Endowed by ROSEN and organized by the ASME Foundation, the award recognizes emerging innovators who demonstrate creativity, technical excellence, and a commitment to advancing pipeline and transportation engineering. Named after ROSEN’s founder, the award reflects Hermann Rosen’s lifelong dedication to innovation and empowering change through technology. By directly endowing the prize, ROSEN is not only investing in the future of engineering but nurturing the next generation of scientific and technical leaders, who shape the future of the industry.
This year’s finalists were selected from a global pool of applicants for their outstanding contributions to pipeline engineering. Their work showcases bold thinking, practical solutions, and a clear vision for a more sustainable and efficient energy future.
Meet the Finalists
Ricardo Emanuel Vaz Vargas
Ricardo Emanuel Vaz Vargas is a Senior Professional at Petrobras, Brasil, where he focuses on data science-based solutions for detecting unwanted events in oil-producing wells. His nominated project, titled “3W Project”, originated from his PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2019, and was reintroduced as a Petrobras institutional project in 2022. The project rethinks the current paradigm of oil well monitoring by promoting the experimentation and development of machine learning-based approaches and algorithms for various problems related to the detection and classification of undesirable events that occur in offshore oil wells, including pipeline systems.
Nikolaos Makrakis
Nikolaos Makrakis is a PhD candidate at the Technical University of Crete, Greece, with a background in Earthquake Engineering and Geoinformatics Engineering. With his solution, titled “GeoHazard-Resilient Offshore Pipeline (GROP)”, Nikolaos designed a concept to enable the safe transfer of natural gas, hydrogen, and CO2 across previously inaccessible offshore corridors. His concept sketches a resilient, scalable, and cost-efficient alternative to traditional offshore pipelines for regions with complex geology and bathymetry, such as the Southeastern (SE) Mediterranean Sea.
Sudhir Kumar & Prasanna Kumar
Sudhir Kumar and Prasanna Kumar, both part of Petronet MHB Ltd in India, addressed the issues of remote operability and resilience with their solution “Unmanned SV Station Powered by Hybrid renewable architecture”. By designing, implementing, and operationalizing a fully unmanned sectionalized valve station with a self-sustained, intelligent power system, they eliminated the dependency on conventional electricity board or diesel generators. Their solutions aim is to reduce fire hazards, human error, and carbon footprint at the same time.
Join Us in Celebrating the Future of Pipeline Engineering
The winner of the 2025 ASME Hermann Rosen Award for Pipeline Innovation will be announced during the official award ceremony at the ROSEN booth #B18 at Rio Pipeline on September 10 at 5:15 PM in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We look forward to celebrating the achievements of these talented individuals and their contributions to the future of pipeline engineering.