For more than 20 years, the international energy markets have faced significant challenges; but it is how we have handled these tribulations that sets us apart. Leaders rise to the challenge and find opportunity amidst the chaos. The Global Energy Awards is proud to recognize and celebrate our community's positive impact on the energy markets.
This Awards program offers categories for both business and individual achievement. Most companies self-nominate and multiple nominations are welcome.
The 2020 nominations will be open June 1 - September 10.
To nominate, review the list of categories. You will find a link to the nomination template, the judging criteria and the online nomination form on each category description.
Nomination Categories:
Award of Excellence – Upstream Transformation
This award is open to integrated energy companies, on and offshore drilling services, upstream oil and gas organizations and specialist exploration companies.
Over the past year, relatively low prices have forced a decrease in production. This backdrop affords an opportunity for savvy market participants who can ride the choppy waves to stronger market fundamentals.
Judges seek companies that are firmly weathering the downturn, for instance creating innovative financial solutions, establishing world-class standards in E&P, reaching new levels of technical excellence and bringing complex and/or difficult projects to completion.
In addition to optimized operational practices, the winner will have clearly demonstrated its commitment to emissions reductions, safer extraction techniques and investments in technology, while providing economic benefits to its communities.
Judges will focus on evidence of industry-wide impact since January 2019, in addition to considering the three-year track record of an entrant.
Download the nomination template
Ready to submit? Complete the online nomination form
- Challenges
- Financial Results
- Innovation
- Operational Excellence
- Strategic Vision
Ready to submit? Complete the online nomination form
Award of Excellence – Midstream
This award is open to all organizations that store, transport, or facilitate trade of energy; most notable are operators such as shipping, railways, tankers, ports, storage, trading organizations and oil, gas and NGL pipelines.
An ever-important midstream sector straddles a struggling value chain. Production cuts have strained incremental volumes and processing activity, while concerns over costs and depressed consumption reside further downstream.
The winner will best exhibit its adaptation to this unique landscape, fluctuating fundamentals and establishing its reliability amid uncertain consumer markets.
Entries should highlight how innovative their organization is, in terms of connecting markets providing the highest standard of customer service and safety.
Judges will focus on evidence of industry-wide impact since January 2019, in addition to considering the three-year track record of an entrant.
- Challenges
- Financial Results
- Innovation
- Operational Excellence
- Strategic Vision
Ready to submit? Complete the online nomination form
Award of Excellence – Downstream
This award is open to companies operating in the areas of petrochemicals, polymers, refining, LPG, marketing and retail services.
Recognizing exceptional operational and financial performance in a dynamic downstream sector, judges will look for a company that is challenging perceptions of what a downstream company does, adjusting to changing currents and new ways in which the world operates. Frontrunners consider what is best for consumers and society, while still expanding their business.
Navigating a new course that looks nothing like years past, leaders are modifying their operations rapidly and robustly to provide much needed essential supplies to markets old and new.
Entries should focus on innovative solutions, adaptation to social and environmental responsibility, and ultimately creating opportunities in uncharted and turbulent times.
Judges will focus on evidence of industry-wide impact since January 2019, in addition to considering the three-year track record of an entrant.
- Challenges
- Financial Results
- Innovation
- Operational Excellence
- Strategic Vision
Ready to submit? Complete the online nomination form
Award of Excellence – LNG
The award is open to all players in the LNG value chain, including producers, buyers, portfolio players, traders, financial companies, shippers, and technology innovators.
2020 has seen a sea of change in the LNG industry. Waves of sporadic demand have surged and crashed due to the recent pandemic as lockdowns roll around the world. Final Investment Decisions (FIDs) on new projects have ground to a halt, and price forecasts have been updated at an unseen regularity. In this climate, only the most considered, well-planned and adaptive companies can deliver industry-renowned excellence.
Entries should focus on high-performance in LNG areas including innovation, flexibility, efficiency and partnerships. Nominations might include organizations that have financed, or reached FID on projects that have successfully concluded LNG transactions, or more broadly demonstrated operational excellence within this commodity.
Judges will focus on evidence of industry-wide impact since January 2019, in addition to considering the three-year track record of an entrant.
Judging Criteria
Judging Criteria
- Challenges
- Financial Results
- Innovation
- Operational Excellence
- Strategic Vision
Ready to submit? Complete the online nomination form
Award of Excellence – Power
This award is open to power producers (coal, gas, nuclear, oil, hydroelectric, solar, wind, other renewable generating fuels and fully integrated power producers), utilities, system operators and regional market entities.
Rapid changes in technology, coupled with uncertain environmental, regulatory and severe economic conditions, present vast and complex requirements for the broad range of companies operating in the power space.
Winners will demonstrate successful strategic planning for top performance and growth, while embracing a radically new business and trading environment. Entries should convey reliable and robust system operations, early and consistent development of customer-centric technologies and protocols, creation and maintenance of diverse and comprehensive supply portfolios and evident foresight in preparing for grid modernization and cybersecurity.
Entries may include setting and achieving ambitious carbon targets, navigating financial and political complexities, and fortifying plans for continued threats of cyber and physical attacks on the power grid.
Judges will focus on evidence of industry-wide impact since January 2019, in addition to considering the three-year track record of an entrant.
- Challenges
- Financial Results
- Innovation
- Operational Excellence
- Strategic Vision
Ready to submit? Complete the online nomination form
Chief Executive of the Year
This award is open to business leaders that head up an entire corporation or organization; CEOs, Presidents, Directors General, Executive Administrators and Executive Managing Directors among others. Leaders of business units or functions should apply under Rising Star Individual.
For a firm’s top executive to win, he or she needs to have consistently demonstrated clarity of vision, judgment and motivational skills that transform and empower their organization. The winner will be a leader who is highly respected by both peers and competitors, admired and followed by employees, trusted by investors and welcomed by the community.
This award recognizes courage, perseverance, dedication, ethics and the ability to advance their company in the face of adversity, sustain their sector amid universal headwinds and undeniably support the employees who propel their organization into the future.
Entries should focus on a leader’s strategy and objectives, clear communication and implementation and ultimate outcome substantiated by demonstrable progress toward his/her vision.
Judges will consider a leader’s entire track record, with particular attention focused on that individual’s accomplishments since January 2019.
**What is the functional title of the nominated individual?
**Is this leader’s organization public or private?
**What is the asset value in USD of this leader’s organization?
- Achievements
- Decisiveness
- Innovation
- Integrity
- Leadership
- Strategic Vision
Ready to submit? Complete the online nomination form
Note: Due to the high number of distinguished nominees regularly received, Platts reserves the right to expand this award.
Lifetime Achievement Award
This award cuts across all classifications and criteria in an effort to recognize a legendary figure in the world of energy. The winner could be an outstanding business leader, politician, regulator, academic, community activist, economist, investor, engineer, trading or financial manager or technology specialist— anyone who has made an outstanding contribution to the development and future of the energy industry as a whole in the course of his or her career.
The winner’s achievements will reflect a long and varied career of service, creativity and insight. This individual will have won widespread recognition and respect on the global stage.
Download the nomination template
Ready to submit? Complete the online nomination form
- Achievements
- Innovation
- Integrity
- Leadership
- Peer Recognition
- Strategic Vision
Ready to submit? Complete the online nomination form
Note: The Judges reserve the right to name multiple winners of this award based on overall career achievements.
Rising Star – Individual Award
Open to non-CEO executives or business unit leaders who are driving excellence in energy, chemicals, energy investment, finance or policy.
A transformational company that shifts the industry’s focus must have a champion on the front line that can take a complex strategy and execute it with precision and deliver clear, impressive results. These trailblazers likely have their sights set on the top spot of an organization.
Judges will be looking for a leader who personifies innovation, creates opportunities and ultimately delivers results. While this individual may not be new to their industry, the Rising Star Individual will have made the most remarkable strides in their career, inevitably influencing their industry.
Covering performance from January 2017, judges will consider all non-CEO senior managers and executives.
**What is the functional title of the nominated individual?
- Achievements
- Innovation
- Integrity
- Leadership
- Peer Recognition
- Results
Ready to submit? Complete the online nomination form
Rising Star – Company Award
This award is open to all energy companies established after January 2012.
The Rising Star Company recognizes the achievements of either a genuine startup business or an existing business that has moved into a brand-new field.
Judges will look for businesses that are establishing themselves as a key player in any energy or chemical discipline including investments, finance and trade. Entrants may include companies with a regional focus that have successfully positioned themselves on the world stage, investing or trading startups that are gaining ground on established giants, or energy businesses that have shifted their entire focus into another section of the value chain.
In the interests of evaluating track records, judges will consider businesses created since January 2012.
**When was the nominated company officially founded?
- Financial Results - growth in particular
- Innovation
- Net Job Growth
- Operational Excellence
- Scope
- Strategic Vision
Ready to submit? Complete the online nomination form
Deal of the Year
Eligible entities include private equity, venture capital funds, hedge funds, investment banks, as well as, core companies of the energy and chemical complex; including, oil and gas, power producers, utilities, system operators, midstream and retail markets.
Delays in deal making is expected to continue in 2020 as many seek opportunities amid turbulent market conditions. Deal of the Year will bring recognition to a closed deal or new energy project’s overall impact, influence on market participants and nuances that made the deal uniquely successful.
Winning entries might focus on overcoming challenges to complete the deal, innovative financial engineering, and motivating agreement across multiple stakeholders.
Note: Energy investment portfolio businesses should not submit their whole portfolio for consideration. More than one nomination can be submitted for Deal of the Year as long as they are completely separate deals.
In the interests of judging the success of an investment, judges will consider any investment made since January 2019 through the close of nominations in September 2020.
**When did the transaction close?
**Who was the target?
**Who was the buyer?
**What was the disclosed value?
- Challenges
- Financial Results
- Innovation
- Leadership
- Scope
- Strategic Vision
Ready to submit? Complete the online nomination form
Corporate Social Responsibility Award
This award is open to all companies in the energy space, including producers, traders, retailers and exchanges.
In these historic and universally-challenging times, the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Award illuminates the ever-important convergence of profitability and company values. Rather than an obligation, CSR is a voluntary commitment, which greatly motivates employee morale; is of fundamental interest to customers, investors and other key stakeholders; and is a key element of a company’s character.
The judges will seek a high-performing organization that has evidenced its positive influence on surrounding communities, promotes teamwork toward sustainable, long-term impacts, and encourages active employee participation beyond financial contributions. Not only will this organization have established a commitment to society and its well-being, but will also have a compelling communications program that effectively conveys that commitment.
There will be two awards given in this category. Targeted CSR Award will highlight a CSR initiative that concentrates on a singular space, even if it has vast impact; while Diversified CSR Award welcomes programs that simultaneously concentrate on multiple areas; e.g. education, healthcare and economic prosperity.
Judges will consider all sustained programs, possibly part of a rich portfolio, that are currently in operation and scheduled to continue through 2020.
**What percentage of revenue, does the company invest into this program annually?
- Benefits to Community
- Challenges
- Communications Program
- Employee Participation
- Scope
Ready to submit? Complete the online nomination form
Sustained Excellence – Green Initiatives (Sponsored by Staples)
This category welcomes heavy energy consumers, including retail, food & beverage, information, social media, sports and entertainment, data and technology, automotive, manufacturing, airlines, OEM and banks among other industries. Energy Suppliers are ineligible.
Energy consumers, both large and small, are increasingly embracing efficiency and renewable energy as means to protect a threatened environment while also serving their energy needs. Making the most of existing power production through co-generation and its offspring; streamlining processes, procedures and technology to maximize efficiency; and tapping into renewable energy sources can serve the interests of both business and the environment. This award recognizes savvy, sustained and robust commitments to energy efficiency and minimizing environmental footprints.
Judges will consider energy conservation initiatives run within large and small corporations seeking to optimize energy use, improving efficiency and reducing environmental impact. In addition to reduction per unit or other key metrics, the judges also want to see comprehensive improvements and percentages of overall results.
Judges will focus exclusively on performance and achievements since January 2019.
**What is the reduction per unit or key metric?
**What is the comprehensive improvement, and percentage of overall results?
- Communications Program
- Operational Excellence
- Financial Results
- Results (non-financial)
- Innovation
- Strategic Vision
Ready to submit? Complete the online nomination form
Grid Edge Award
This award is open to startups, technology applications (e.g. blockchain, applied AI, machine learning), utilities, energy service providers, system operators, renewable energy generators and distributors, battery applications and energy storage, electric vehicles and other automotive integrations.
This category aims to recognize innovators throughout the entire energy system who are advancing the electric grid to most effectively link utilities to customers. Converting grid disruptors to grid enablers requires revolution in myriad forms, from power producers to novel regulatory structures and policy framework, all the way to the ultimate consumer interface.
Entries should show quantified results that convey how the innovation is progressing toward an improved future energy system. The nomination should articulate how its distinct application solves for specific inefficiencies or complications across the energy system and electric grid.
Judges want to see cutting-edge, commercial implementations that truly advance the concept into new territory. Their focus will be exclusively on achievements since January 2019.
- Financial Results
- Innovation
- Operational Excellence
- Results (non-financial)
- Strategic Vision
Ready to submit? Complete the online nomination form
Construction Project of the Year
Open to industrials, construction companies, energy organizations and all other project owners that have completed an energy-focused project since January 2019.
This category is about excellence in project execution and management. Eligible companies will demonstrate their capacity to deliver a construction or infrastructure project in any part of the energy arena, including electricity generation, power transmission lines and distribution facilities, pipelines, storage facilities, refining, biofuels, offshore oil, or renewable energy.
Entries should illustrate the project’s unique innovation in its approach and all-around excellence in implementation. Judges will look for a project owner that identified a critical need or opportunity, quickly moved to propose and finance new facilities, dealt with special or daunting political, regulatory, technological and/or landowner issues before and during construction, and brought the project online with fiscal responsibility.
Judges will consider projects completed between January 2019 and September 2020.
** When was the project declared complete?
**If only a phase is now complete, which phase? (Ex. Phase 3 of 5)
**What is the name of this Construction Project?
Samples of photos, videos or other imagery are encouraged but not required
- Challenges - siting and financing, in particular
- Financial Results
- Innovation
- Operational Excellence
- Scope
Ready to submit? Complete the online nomination form
Engineering Project of the Year
Open to energy organizations, engineering firms and other entities that have successfully implemented a singular engineering solution since January 2019.
Designed specifically to reward engineering excellence, this award is distinct from the Construction Project award; and traditionally, not given to a construction project as a whole.
The aim of this category is to highlight achievements in surmounting a specific engineering challenge, whether in complex and difficult environments, in executing a precision task, or in solving a specific engineering obstacle in new ways. In choosing a winner, Judges will consider environmental factors as well as the technical breadth of project activity.
Nominations should highlight an engineering solution as part of a completed project and demonstrate its impact and effectiveness, the innovative aspects of the engineering involved, and the difficulties overcome in implementation.
Judges will consider projects completed between January 2019 and September 2020.
**When was the project completed?
**Has this engineering solution been applied previously, if so when?
**What is the name of this engineering project/solution?
Samples of photos, videos or other imagery are encouraged but not required.
- Challenges
- Financial Results
- Innovation
- Operational Excellence
- Scope
Ready to submit? Complete the online nomination form
Emerging Technology of the Year
This award is open to organizations who are developing a specific technology or solution that is not yet commercially available.
**Solutions that are generating revenue or commercially available should apply under Commercial Technology.
As the world struggles to adapt to these ever-changing times and quickly readjust traditional methods of operation, the race to bring new and innovative technologies to maturity and mass-market penetration is fierce. First movers deserve proper recognition.
This award will focus on the research and development, ingenuity and commercialization potential of new technologies, before their state of deployment. Examples might include technologies focused on renewable energy, energy storage, blockchain application, transforming waste into revenue streams, advanced propulsion systems or electric/hybrid transport.
Judges will consider any technology launched or patented since January 2019; and not yet in full-scale, commercial operation. Technologies operating in test facilities or initial phases will be considered, provided they have been technologically proven.
**Is this technology generating revenue?
**When will this technology be commercially available?
**What is the name of the technology/solution?
Samples of photos, videos or other imagery are encouraged but not required
- Commercial Viability
- Innovation
- Net Job Growth (projected)
- Results (non-financial)
- Technologically proven
- Scope
Ready to submit? Complete the online nomination form
Commercial Technology of the Year
**Specific for technologies that are commercially available and generating revenue. Solutions that are in pilot phase or not yet generating revenue should apply under Emerging Technology.
To qualify for this award, companies must practically apply new technology in the pursuit of efficiency, business advantage, reduced impact and profit. The Judges will look for commercially applied innovation. Entrants should demonstrate the significance of their technology in relation to emissions reduction, practicality, reliability and overall commercial success.
Note: This award is for the application of "hard" technology. The judges cannot judge the relative merits of standalone, trading, or financial software applications.
Judges will consider any revenue-generating technology implemented on a commercial basis since January 2019.
**When did this technology begin generating revenue?
**What is the name of the technology?
Samples of photos, videos or other imagery are encouraged but not required.
- Commercial Availability
- Innovation
- Financial Results
- Technologically Proven
- Net Job Growth
Ready to submit? Complete the online nomination form
Key Dates:
Nominations Open: 6/1/2020
Nominations Close: 9/10/2020
Finalists Announced: 9/22/2020
Winners Announced: 12/10/2020
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