| Dr | Quoc Thang | Nguyen | Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and National Taiwan University | Taiwan | Research Excellence Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Mr | Markku | Kinnunen | Aalto University | Finland | Research Excellence Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Prof | Dieqing | Zhang | Shanghai Normal University | China | Research Excellence Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Peng | Du | Liaoning Academy of Materials | China | Research Excellence Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Mr | Oluwaseun | Duntoye | Seoul National University of Science and Technology | South Korea | Research Excellence Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Chunxu | Qin | Inner Mongolia University of Technology | China | Research Excellence Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Denis | Nsubuga | Makerere University | Uganda | Research Excellence Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Prof. Dr | Andrey | Filonov | Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms of Russian Academy of Sciences | Russia | Research Excellence Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Xiong | Ding | School of Geoscience and Technology, Southwest Petroleum University | China | Research Excellence Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Mingyong | Tang | Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden | China | Research Excellence Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | BILLEL | SALHI | Interdisciplinary research center for membranes and water security, KFUPM | Saudi Arabia | Research Excellence Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Mr | Vinay | Bansal | INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KHARAGPUR | India | Research Excellence Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Mr | Muhammed Sami | Us | Munzur University | Turkey | Research Excellence Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Mr | Rushdie | Rasheed | Brookes Bell | United Kingdom | Research Excellence Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Djaber | BOUHAFARA | National Higher School of Technology and Engineering (ENSTI-annaba), Laboratory of Energy Systems Technologies (LTSE), Annaba, Algeria | Algeria | Research Excellence Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Tendai | Makoni | University of the Free State | South Africa | Research Excellence Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Yuanyuan | Ma | Rice University | United States | Research Excellence Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Mr | Lasitha | Madhusanka | Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka | Sri Lanka | Research Excellence Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Shikhnazar | Ismailov | TUIT | Uzbekistan | Research Excellence Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Saurajyoti | Kar | Argonne National Laboratory | United States | Research Excellence Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |