| Mrs | Vanessa | Torres Ramos | Ecopetrol | Colombia | Excellence in Research Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Prof. Dr | Tingshan | Zhang | SW Petroleum Univ. | China | Best Academic Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Mr | Christopher | Mkono | China university of Geosciences (Wuhan) | China | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Prof. Dr | Yuxin | Zhao | CNPC Tubular Goods Research Institute (TGRI) | China | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Mr | Fei | Huo | southwest petroleum university | China | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Jingye | Liu | School of Management, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing) | China | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Huan | Miao | China university of petroleum (Beijing) | China | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Mrs | Bei | Gao | Schlumberger | China | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Massine | Bouchakour | Southwest Petroleum University | China | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Huayu | Long | university of Tianjin | China | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Ms | Wu | Zhineng | Hebei University of Technology | China | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Fei | Tang | China University of Mining & Technology, Beijing | China | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Dahai | Wang | Sinopec Petroleum Exploration and Production Research Institute | China | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | jingfeng | Dong | Northeast Forestry University | China | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Prof | Xiaojun | Tang | Xi’an Jiaotong University | China | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Jinyou | DAI | China University of Petroleum, Beijing | China | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Mr | Chen | Hao | Chengdu Center, China Geological Survey (Geoscience Innovation Center of Southwest China), Chengdu, China | China | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Jianming | Zhang | Ocean University of China | China | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Wei | Wang | Nanyang Normal University | China | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Mr | Bolin | Ji | Donghua University | China | Best Academic Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |