Wanner Engineering, based in Minneapolis, was awarded the 2010 Spotlight on New Technology Award at the Offshore Technology Conference for its Hydra-Cell T80 series of seal-less pumps. The Offshore Technology Conference, founded in 1969, is an annual conference held in Houston the first week of May to increase awareness of technologies for environmental protection and ocean extraction. In 2014, the conference reached its peak attendance of over 108,000 people from over 120 countries and featured over 2,500 exhibiting companies.