Petroleum Exploration and Development is a bimonthly journal sponsored by the PetroChina Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development (RIPED). In 2008, Elsevier started publishing the Journal on ScienceDirect, the online full text and bibliographic information resource. The purposes of Petroleum Exploration and Development are to advance the theory and technology of the exploration and production of petroleum resources as well as of petroleum engineering; to disseminate and communicate the up-to-date science and technology of petroleum; and to cover the latest theoretical and technological developments and research results in China and the world relating to petroleum geology, oil and gas field development, petroleum engineering , new energy, CCUS, etc. The columns in the journal include: Petroleum Exploration, Oil and Gas Field Development, Petroleum Engineering, Comprehensive Research, etc.

Petroleum Exploration and Development is covered by both SCI and EI and published worldwide in both Chinese and English. In the 2023 Journal Citation Reports (JCR), the Impact Factor of Petroleum Exploration and Development is 7.0, which is ranked first among all the SCI journals in the category of Petroleum Engineering.

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