| Dr | Satyen Kumar | Das | Indian Oil Corporation Limited, R&D Centre | India | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Jinyou | DAI | China University of Petroleum, Beijing | China | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Ms | Kátia Sofia | D. S. Gomes | RWTH Aachen Univeristy | Germany | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Prof | Xiao-Ping | Chen | University of Washington | United States | Best Academic 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 |
| Dr | Jean-Yves Desire | Chatellier | Tecto Sedi Integrated inc. | Canada | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Prof. Dr | Rosanna | Capparelli | Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II | Italy | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Mehmet | CAKIR | Yildiz Technical University | Turkey | Best Research in Petroleum Engineering Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Jun | Cai | Yangtze University | China | Excellence in Research | 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 |