Petroleum Research is an academic journal cosponsored by the Chinese Petroleum Society and Petroleum Industry Press Co., LTD. This quarterly journal publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed scientific papers on basic and applied studies in petroleum science and technology.

The scope covers the fields of petroleum (especially unconventional oil and gas, including shale oil and gas, tight oil and gas, coal bed methane, natural gas hydrate) exploration, development, and engineering in the upstream petroleum industry, including petroleum geology, reservoir engineering, oil and gas production engineering, drilling engineering, oil and gas storage and transportation engineering, petroleum machinery, and resource evaluation and prediction, etc. In particular, Petroleum Research primarily focuses on enhanced oil recovery, application of artificial intelligence, material science, and big data application, etc. Petroleum Research also focuses on economical, safety and environmental protection issue related to the upstream petroleum industry, as well as carbon capture, utilization and sequestration, new energy science and engineering interdiscipline.