Dr. Chengzao Jia, Editor-in-Chief of Petroleum Research, receives prestigious AAPG Award

Published 23 May, 2019

Earlier this week at ACE2019 in San Antonio, TX, USA, the Annual Convention and Exhibition of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), Dr. Chengzao Jia, Editor-in-Chief of Petroleum Research, was awarded the prestigious Norman H. Foster Outstanding Explorer Award.

The Award is given in recognition of outstanding achievements in exploration of petroleum or mineral resources by members of AAPG who have shown a consistent pattern of exploratory success, with an emphasis on recent discovery.

Dr. Chengzao Jia received this award in recognition of his great contributions to significant petroleum discoveries, as a visionary leader embarking on lithostratigraphic reservoir exploration in China, and for his contributions to the discovery of the giant Kela-2 gas field in the foreland fold and thrust belts of the northern Tarim Basin. 

The publishing team of Petroleum Research and the team at KeAi would like to congratulate Dr. Chengzao Jia very much with this prestigious award!