| 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 |
| Dr | Ashutosh | Sharma | University of OKlahoma | United States | 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 |
| 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 | Sourav | Poddar | Haldia Institute of Technology | India | Best Academic Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Satyen Kumar | Das | Indian Oil Corporation Limited, R&D Centre | India | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | jingfeng | Dong | Northeast Forestry University | China | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Bashirul | Haq | King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals | Saudi Arabia | Sustainable Energy Practices in Petroleum Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Jianming | Zhang | Ocean University of China | China | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | J.Arunprasad | | Mechanical, Industrial and Aeronautical Engineering/University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. | South Africa | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Wei | Wang | Nanyang Normal University | China | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Valentina | Grebenshchikova | Institute of Geochemistry, SB RAS | Russia | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Silvia | Gramolelli | Åbo Akademi | Finland | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Zhitao | Hao | Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology | China | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Cristiano | Fick | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Tingting | Ke | Shaanxi Institute of Geological Survey | China | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |
| Dr | Said | Gaci | Sonatrach-DC R&D | Algeria | Best Researcher Award | Awardee | petroleumengineering.org |