OPES

OPES 2026 ENERGY AWARDS

Celebrating excellence and collaboration in shaping a sustainable energy future.

The OPES 2026 Energy Awards will honour the breakthroughs, achievements, and excellence demonstrated across the oil and gas industry. In keeping with the conference theme Winning Through Collaboration: Achieving Sustainable Energy Future, the anticipated strong participation will foster meaningful knowledge exchange—contributions as valuable as the high-quality technical papers and insights shared by our distinguished expert panels.

These prestigious Awards will provide a platform to showcase the industry’s progress, highlight levels of innovation, and illuminate the direction in which the oil and gas sector is advancing.

Submit by 14 March 2026

AWARD CATEGORIES

This year's Energy Awards features five main categories and 3 finalists will be shortlisted for each award category. The Winner will be announced at the Awards Ceremony.

Innovation and Technology Award

Innovations, R&D results, breakthrough technologies.

Transformation and Organisation Performance Award

Lean implementation, new ways of working, digitalisation, game changer, and industrial collaborations

In-Country Value and Human Capital Development Award

In-Country Value (ICV), local community development and social contributions, talent and professional development (SME Development), young professional development, building capabilities, support for new academic programs, and realising diversity and inclusiveness; Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

HSE and Sustainability Award

Outstanding health and safety performance, energy, sustainability, and governance

Low Carbon Energy Award

Renewable energy, decarbonisation, alternate fuels, hydrogen, CCUS, carbon trading, resilience and competitiveness, and clean energy initiatives

JUDGING CRITERIA

The OPES 2026 Energy Award Committee will review all submissions and assess them according to the following criteria and corresponding weightings.

Elements (20%): Contains one or more topics in the relevant category, level of complexity, and difficulty

Impact (30%): Proven solution with quantifiable impact, magnitude of the impact (i.e., profitability, efficiency, HSE, ICV, etc.), and sustainability of impact

Novelty (20%): Level of novelty, genuineness, and authenticity of the solution, methods, approach or project

Industrial Potential (30%): Applicability to the wider industry, scale-ability, and replicability.

All submissions must provide a completed consent form from their organisation. Click the button below to download the form.

Selected finalists will be notified by 16 April 2026.

Submission Acknowledgement Form

Sample Awards Submission