ADNOC has secured 14 awards at the Oil & Gas Middle East Awards 2026, highlighting its operational excellence, resilience, and strong global leadership while reflecting its rapid growth and transformation.
The awards honored ADNOC Group employees and projects for outstanding performance across the energy value chain, including operational excellence, the deployment of advanced technologies and artificial intelligence, and responsible energy production.
They also recognized strong leadership, workforce empowerment, and continued progress in safety, decarbonization, and large-scale project execution, reflecting the breadth of capabilities across ADNOC’s integrated upstream, downstream, technical, digital, and support functions.
ADNOC’s Oil & Gas Middle East Awards 2026 winners
Operational Excellence Leader of the Year – Dr. Ahmed Mohamed Alebri, CEO, ADNOC Onshore
Industry Voice Award – ADNOC Offshore
Unsung Hero Award – Alyaziya Alkaabi, Piping Engineer, ADNOC Sour Gas
Sustainability Advocate of the Year – Samar Al-Hameedi, Vice President, Climate Change, ADNOC Group
Rising Energy Star Award – Basma Al Bishr, Head of Planning and Performance, ADNOC Offshore
Energy Woman of the Year – Shamma Al Shehhi, Manager, Wells & Petroleum Engineering, ADNOC
Workforce Empowerment Award – ITQAN, ADNOC Offshore Future Ready National Talent Accelerator
Energy Transition Project of the Year – ADNOC Gas (CO2 Recovery & Injection project)
Energy Innovator of the Year – ADNOC Sour Gas (SRU Energy Optimization)
Decarbonization Strategy Award – ADNOC Group (Carbon Management Framework)
Shutdown & Turnaround Excellence of the Year – Borouge
Exploration Project of the Year – ADNOC Onshore (UAE Unconventional Exploration Fast-Track Program)
Innovation in Action Award – ADNOC (World-first hybrid EOR technology deployment)
HSE Champion of the Year – ADNOC Offshore (Imtithal HSE Assurance Programme)
Musabbeh Al Kaabi CEO – ADNOC Upstream
“The Oil & Gas Middle East awards reflect the extraordinary people, projects and operations that underpin ADNOC’s reliability, resilience and focus on long-term value creation. We dedicate the awards to our frontline employees and to the frontline workers in the UAE who safeguard our nation and ensure the continuity of ADNOC’s operations.”
Recognition from Oil & Gas Middle East highlights ADNOC’s builds on decades of disciplined investment, long-term planning, project execution and value creation, as well as the implementation of advanced technology, AI and robotics to drive the next phase of growth and expansion.
