Petroleum Research is an academic journal cosponsored by Chinese Petroleum Society and Petroleum Industry Press Co., LTD, and publishes quarterly high quality, peer-reviewed scientific papers of the basic and applied researches in petroleum science and technology. The scope cover the upstream of petroleum industry, including oil and gas geological exploration, field development and production, reservoir engineering, drilling and production engineering, petrochemicals, oil & gas storage and transportation, petroleum machinery. In order to highlight the characteristics of the journal, Petroleum Research will mainly focus on the unconventional and deepwater oil and gas.