Awards of Excellence 2025 – Cast Your Vote
Welcome to the official Awards of Excellence Nomination Page – where the industry’s leading minds, trailblasing technologies, and transformational deals are celebrated and recognised by their peers.
The Awards honour the companies and individuals redefining the energy landscape within the last 12 months. From ground-breaking exploration to pioneering decarbonisation, this is your opportunity to recognise excellence, vote with impact, and help shine a spotlight on those driving meaningful change across the global energy sector.
What does it mean to win? Hear from our past winners
Nomination Timeline
Nomination Opens
1 September 2025
Nomination Closes
26 September 2025
Judges Lunch
10 October 2025
Shortlist Announced
20 October 2025
Winners Announced
3 December 2025
2025 Awards Judges
Hear from our winners
Large Cap of the Year
It's an honour to win this award on behalf of ExxonMobil and the great teams that work for us across the globe. So it's a tremendous honour and we appreciate the recognition for the company.
Deal of the Year
Very very proud. I have to say team effort without the Harvard team we weren't going to win this so very very proud very very pleased. Thank you very much.
Exploration of the Year
It's an amazing recognition of something that is really, really big for our company and to be recognized amongst the other majors that were competing for this prize with us and to bring a new geography, a new zip code to the industry on the oil and gas, it's amazing.
Award Categories
Global Energy Company of the Year
Rewards overall excellence, performance, and leadership for companies operating across geographies
Regional Energy Company of the Year – EMEA/APAC/ Americas
Recognises high performers in each region from NOCs, independents, or integrated players that dominate regionally but not globally
Upstream Deal of the Year
Spotlighting successful capital deployment and commercial strategy in a post-divestment landscape.
Emerging Markets Energy Company of the Year
Independent leaders operating in environments across Africa, Latin America, and Asia
Energy Transition Champion of the Year
Not just specific projects but also transformative strategy, M&A deals, or leadership in transition-linked capital raising
Equity Capital Provider of the Year
Recognising innovation and leadership across banking, PE and stock exchanges
Strategic Partnership of the Year
Reflects how strategic alliances (JVs, infrastructure co-developments, M&A partnerships) are becoming key to value creation
Technology & Innovation Leader of the Year
Companies delivering tangible innovation with measurable upstream or transitional impact
Executive of the Year
Executive who has demonstrated operational success, market reputation and improved company performance
Future Leader of the Year
Celebrating rising talent – under 45 – who will be a future leader
Awards Highlights
Executive of Year Award
I wasn't expecting this and I think it's fair to say that for a company that is still relatively new you could argue that we're we're probably a few years late and early in sort of in this award but I think it's probably goes to all the guys who supported us in getting to where we are, all the advisors or the banks and yeah just everyone that's been part of the story going forward. I think this is more for them than it is for me.
Ufoma Immanuel, CEO, Chappal Energies
Lifetime Achievement Award
It's a privilege and a pleasure. I say that so following the footsteps of some of the other winners over the years and look I think I look back on the last 20 -30 years it's been a fantastic industry to advise and be part of and look forward to being able to advise and support clients on what they want to do making deals happen in the years to come.
Julian Mylchreest, Executive Vice-Chairman, Bank of America
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