| Dr | Arash | Ebrahimi | Comenius University Bratislava | Slovakia | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Yang | Guo | Changzhou University | China | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Prof | Roberto | Parra-Saldivar | Cranfield University | United Kingdom | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Mr | Artem | Pripakhaylo | Semenov Research Center for Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences | Russia | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Prof. Dr | Mohamed | Khalifa | Libyan Academy for Postgraduate Studies, Tripoli "Janzour" - Libya | Libya | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Ramesh Chandra | Nayak | Synergy Institute of Technology | India | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Prof | Wangli | He | East China University of Science and Technology | China | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Ms | 纯娜 | 冯 | 云南北方光电仪器有限公司 | China | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Aya | Matloob | Egyptian Petroleum Research institute | Egypt | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Ms | Lin | Chen | State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |