With the accelerated development of high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) reservoirs, the oil and gas industry faces new material challenges and questions regarding reservoir characteristics leading to increased use of costly and more exotic materials. Nanostructured and advanced materials offer solutions and new possibilities in drilling, exploration, and production. To support and enable us to harness such reservoirs with highly hostile environments, strategies such as “The Materials Genome Initiative (MGI)” has advanced new paradigms for materials discovery and design. This initiative is opening original frontiers leading to accelerated new material innovations through complementary efforts in theory, computations, and experimentations. On a related note, decades of experience drawn from the oil and gas industry and strategic partnerships amongst the advanced materials will play a pivotal role in maturing disruptive technologies and solving challenges associated with sustainability and ESG. These years of experience and intelligent engineering will enable energy transition, harnessing and building greener domains, a reality. Our symposium encompasses papers that discuss and review topics related to advancements in materials for energy while focusing on innovations needed to support and sustain a much-needed energy transition for a better and greener world.