| Dr | Said | Gaci | Business/Company | Sonatrach-DC R&D | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Tingting | Ke | Academician/Research Scholar | Shaanxi Institute of Geological Survey | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Cristiano | Fick | Academician/Research Scholar | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Shuangmei | Zou | Academician/Research Scholar | China University of Geosciences | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Prof. Dr | Hu | Jia | Academician/Research Scholar | Southwest Petroleum University | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Zhitao | Hao | Academician/Research Scholar | Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Prof. Dr | Peter | Rose | Academician/Research Scholar | Energy & Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Mr | Tomasz | Zieliński | Academician/Research Scholar | Orlen S.A. | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Silvia | Gramolelli | Academician/Research Scholar | Åbo Akademi | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Prof | Younes | Hamed | Academician/Research Scholar | University of Gafsa | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Mr | Bolin | Ji | Academician/Research Scholar | Donghua University | Best Academic Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Valentina | Grebenshchikova | Academician/Research Scholar | Institute of Geochemistry, SB RAS | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Wei | Wang | Academician/Research Scholar | Nanyang Normal University | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Prof. Dr | Shinji | Egashira | Academician/Research Scholar | International Centre for Flood Hazards and Risk Management, PWRI, Japan (Retired in March 2025) | Best Academic Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Prof | Hadi | Belhaj | Academician/Research Scholar | Khalifa University | Excellence in Reservoir Engineering Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | J.Arunprasad | | Academician/Research Scholar | Mechanical, Industrial and Aeronautical Engineering/University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Mr | Ahmed | El-midany | Student/Member | SLB | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Jianming | Zhang | Academician/Research Scholar | Ocean University of China | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Prof | Juan | Soto | Academician/Research Scholar | University of Granada | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Prof. Dr | Ida Lykke | Fabricius | Academician/Research Scholar | Techni | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |