PrePad Wins 2025 Meritorious Award for Engineering Innovation in Digital Oilfield Category from Hart Energy

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PrePad Wins 2025 Meritorious Award for Engineering Innovation in Digital Oilfield Category from Hart Energy

CALGARY, AB & HOUSTON, TX (October 1, 2025) — PrePad (“PrePad” or the “Company”), a leading provider of cloud-based software and creator of the industry’s only completions process simulator, has been awarded the 2025 Meritorious Award for Engineering Innovation in the Digital Oilfield category by Hart Energy, the leading U.S. energy industry information provider.

The award recognizes PrePad’s transformative Completions Module, which enables high performing teams to simulate and compare any well decision in seconds – redefining how energy companies plan and execute unconventional well projects.

Hart Energy’s Meritorious Awards for Engineering Innovation honour new products and technologies that demonstrate excellence in concept, design, and application. PrePad’s Completions Module was chosen for its innovative approach to optimizing the economics of well manufacturing, earning recognition for its ability to integrate cost, time, and production interdependencies into a single, efficient product.

“We’re honoured to receive this year’s Meritorious Award for Engineering Innovation in the Digital Oilfield category,” said Sean Hervo, Co-Founder and CEO of PrePad. “The award reinforces the innovation and hard work that our team has invested into creating the industry’s first completions process simulator. It’s a powerful recognition of the value PrePad brings to the energy sector by optimizing well design, cost management, and operational efficiency in ways that were previously impossible.”

PrePad’s Completions Module is a cloud-based software that allows operators to simulate cost and time implications at every decision point and discover the optimal trade-off among production, cost, cycle time, emissions, and risk. By moving away from traditional spread sheets and offering a universal completions simulation model, PrePad provides a more accurate, real-time analysis of key variables, making it a game-changer for unconventional well operators.

“It’s great to see PrePad’s innovative product receiving this recognition,” said Brandon Eidson, Co-Founder, President, and Chief Product Officer at PrePad. “Our software empowers energy companies, before they’ve spent any money, to model real-world trade-offs under complex,constrained scenarios, estimating the impact of anything they dream up and ultimately maximizing profitability. The award highlights the significant impact our technology is having in optimizing those completions workflows.”

The judging panel for Hart Energy’s awards included engineers and scientists from operating and consulting companies. Darren Barbee, who oversees Hart Energy’s editorial content, saidPrePad's Completions Module impressed the judges with its engineering innovation in the digital oilfield.

“Congratulations to PrePad. The ability to integrate cost, time, and production interdependencies in a single, user-friendly product was recognized by judges as significant for the industry. PrePad joins prestigious company with this contribution to improving the efficiency and profitability of unconventional well operations,” said Barbee.

PrePad continues to grow its influence in the energy sector, with an expanding client base that includes companies such as Chevron, Devon Energy, Coterra Energy, Shell Canada, Whitecap Resources, Birchcliff Energy, Teine Energy, and Cygnet Energy. With a continued focus on innovation and product refinement, PrePad aims to further establish itself as the industry standard for drilling and completions software.

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About PrePad

PrePad is a cloud-based software platform and the industry’s first completions process simulator— built to transform how energy companies plan, simulate, and optimize well delivery. By replacing spreadsheets with rapid, transparent simulations, PrePad enables operators to test any decision in seconds — quantifying cost, time, and design trade-offs with precision. The result is faster, more consistent decision-making that reduces waste, accelerates timelines, and maximizes capital efficiency across oil, gas, geothermal, and beyond.

Founded in 2021 by former Shell employees Sean Hervo and Brandon Eidson, PrePad has quickly established itself as a leader in energy tech innovation. The Company was named a Top Oil & Gas Innovator in Completions in 2023 by Darcy Partners, a provider of technology-focused market intelligence to the energy sector; recognized as the Disruptive Digital Innovator at the 2024 Global Energy Show Canada; and awarded a 2025 Meritorious Engineering Award for Innovation in the Digital Oilfield category from Hart Energy, the leading U.S. energy industry information provider.For more information, visit www.prepad.io.

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Contact

‍Sean Hervo

CEO, PrePad

info@prepad.io