The Carbon Storage & Utilization Award recognizes outstanding innovations that advance CO₂ storage or utilization, including geological, biological, mineralization, or material-based pathways, as well as digital tools supporting storage assessment or screening. Eligible technologies must be at pilot, demonstration, or commercial stage and demonstrate contributions to scalability, safety, cost reduction, or new value creation through CO₂-based products or enhanced storage capacity. 

Winner: CMG

Honourable Mention: Wood Group

The CCUS Infrastructure Award recognizes innovative infrastructure or system-level solutions, such as CO₂ hubs, transport networks, compression systems, digital integration platforms, or low-carbon energy solutions, that enable CCUS at scale. Submissions should demonstrate improvements in reliability, scalability, efficiency, or cost that meaningfully strengthen deployment pathways across the CCUS ecosystem. 

Winner: Enhance Energy

The Digital Innovator Award recognizes groundbreaking digital technologies advancing carbon capture,utilization, and storage (CCUS). This category highlights AI-enabled tools, modelling platforms,real-time emissions monitoring, automation systems, and data-driven solutions that meaningfully improve CCUS efficiency, safety, economics, and long-term performance. Eligible technologies must be less than five years old and in early production, full production, or post-pilot commercial stages. 

Winner: Siemens Industry Software

The Innovation in CCUS Technology Award recognizes breakthrough solutions across equipment, processes, and digital technologies that significantly enhance performance in carbon capture, utilization, or storage. This category highlights innovations that improve efficiency, reduce emissions, lower costs, increase reliability, or streamline project delivery. Technologies must be at field demonstration, or commercial stage. 

Winner: Mantel

The CCUS Enabler Award recognizes organizations, institutions, and associations that provide essential support to advance CCUS through research, education, ecosystem development, collaboration, or policy leadership. Eligible organizations offer critical resources, infrastructure, or expertise that accelerate innovation, build capacity, and strengthen readiness across the CCUS value chain. 

Winner: Carbon Removal Canada

The Emerging CCUS Leader Award celebrates early-career professionals with five or fewer years in the CCUS sector who demonstrate strong leadership potential, innovative thinking, and meaningful early impact. Nominees show project-level or organizational influence, contributing fresh ideas, creativity, initiative, technical insight, or strategic contributions beyond expected responsibilities. This category highlights rising talent, gaining visibility in the broader CCUS community and showing clear promises for future industry leadership. 

Winner: Nicole Harbauer, Trade Commissioner, Regional Office of Alberta and Northwest Territories, Global Affairs Canada

The Project of the Year Award recognizes outstanding CCUS projects demonstrating meaningful progress, innovation, and real-world impact across capture, removal, or integrated CCUS systems. This category is technology-agnostic and open to projects of any scale that reached or achieved FID in 2025/2026. Projects should demonstrate technical advancement, community or industrial benefit, and a clear contribution to accelerating CCUS deployment in Canada or internationally. 

Winner: Entropy Inc.

The CCUS Leader of the Year Award recognizes an experienced professional with five or more years in the sector whose leadership, vision, and long-term contributions have significantly advanced the industry. Nominees demonstrate industry-wide influence through technology progress, commercial deployment, policy impact, major project leadership, collaboration, or community engagement. Recipients show a mature leadership profile, a proven record of guiding teams or strategies, and recognized impact across the CCUS ecosystem. 

Winner: Greg Maidment, Executive Director of Quarry Park Energy Solutions at SAIT