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AWARDS

Leadership and innovation in the energy industry are recognized at the Energy Intelligence Forum with our annual awards. Join your peers as we celebrate outstanding executive leadership, those at the forefront of the energy transition and emerging new talent.

ENERGY EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR
ENERGY INNOVATION AWARD
ENERGY ECONOMIST AWARD
ENERGY LEADERS FOR TOMORROW

2025 ENERGY EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR 
AWARD WINNER

Energy Intelligence is pleased to announce that Ryan Lance, Chairman and CEO of ConocoPhillips, has been elected as Energy Executive of the Year for 2025.

The award recognizes Lance for transforming ConocoPhillips into a unique energy player — the “superindependent” — through a mix of organic growth and his dealmaking acumen.

The award will be presented to Ryan at the Energy Intelligence Forum which will be held in London, October 13-15, 2025.


LEARN MORE ABOUT THE WINNER >>>

ABOUT THE ENERGY EXECUTIVE
OF THE YEAR AWARD

The Energy Executive of the Year award is the international energy industry’s most prestigious award given in recognition of outstanding executive leadership in the energy sector.

Nominations for the award are solicited from over 100 of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, as they appear in Energy Intelligence’s annual TOP 100 Global NOC & IOC Rankings.

A confidential peer selection process involving current and former senior energy executives determines the final winner.

The award is presented by Energy Intelligence at the black-tie Energy Executive of the Year gala dinner, the marquee event of the Energy Intelligence Forum in London.

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PREVIOUS WINNERS

Ryan Lance
ConocoPhillips

2025

Darren Woods
Exxon Mobil

2024

Vicki Hollub
Occidental

2023

H.E. Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi
QatarEnergy

2022

H.E. Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber
ADNOC

2021

Amin Nasser
Saudi Aramco

2020

Ben van Beurden
Royal Dutch Shell

2019

Bob Dudley
BP

2018

Patrick Pouyanné
Total S.A.

2017

H.E. Khalid A. Al-Falih
Saudi Aramco

2016

Rex Tillerson
ExxonMobil

2015

Emilio Lozoya Austin
Pemex

2014

Peter R. Voser
Royal Dutch Shell plc

2013

Fu Chengyu
Sinopec Corp.

2012

José Sergio Gabrielli
Petrobras

2011

Andrew Gould
Schlumberger

2010

Christophe de Margerie
Total

2009

Paolo Scaroni
Eni

2008

H.E. Abdullah Al-Attiyah
State of Qatar

2007

Shokri Ghanem
Libya NOC

2006

Abdallah S. Jum'ah
Saudi Aramco

2005

David J. O'Reilly
Chevron

2004

Lee R. Raymond
ExxonMobil

2003

James J. Mulva
ConocoPhillips

2002

Sir Mark Moody-Stuart
Royal Dutch Shell

2001

Thierry Desmarest
Total

2000

Lucio A. Noto
Mobil

1999

Luis E. Giusti Lopez
PDVSA

1998

Lord John Browne
BP

1997

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