On the evening of October 21, local time in Houston, USA, the International Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). The 2025 Annual Conference and SPE Annual Awards Dinner was held. Professor Dai Caili was awarded the SPE Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty in 2025. In recognition of his outstanding contributions to teaching, scientific research and talent training in the field of petroleum engineering, he became the first Chinese teacher and scholar to receive this honor since the award was established in 1981.

This award is not only an affirmation of myself, but also an affirmation of our country's petroleum engineering education community. It is hoped that more experts, especially young people, will go to the international stage to broaden their horizons and contribute to the cultivation of world oil talents and technological progress. Dai Caili said.

The SPE judges mentioned in their award speech to Dai Caili: Dai Caili has more than 30 years of teaching and scientific research experience in oilfield chemistry and oil recovery improvement, and is the first Chinese scholar to receive this honor. ”

 Prof. Dai Caili won the SPE Petroleum Engineering Outstanding Teacher Achievement Award 

Professor Dai Caili is a well-known expert in the field of oilfield chemistry and oil recovery improvement in our country. For more than 30 years, it has been committed to the research and development of materials in the fields of water control and oil enhancement in old oilfields with high water content, unconventional oil and gas fracturing and production, CCUS and other fields. Technical research and engineering practice, presided over 13 national scientific and technological research projects such as national key research and development, major scientific and technological projects, and national fund key projects, innovated and broke through a series of problems in high-quality chemical working fluids and equipment processes, and developed channels for different displacement media, water control and oil increase and fracturing system of temperature and salt resistance and anti-salt gel dispersion systemKey technologies such as energy enhancement, discharge and drive integration and efficiency, core patented technology licenses 31 oilfield service companies, and research results in 29 domestic oilfields and overseas6 oilfields have been applied on a large scale, helping our country continue to be in a leading position in the world in this field. The first completer won 1 second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, 10 first prizes of the Ministry of Education, Shandong Province and other provincial and ministerial awards, and won the National Innovation Competition Award, Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Youth Award, China Youth Science and Technology Award, Sun Yueqi Energy Award, etc., and was selected Elsevier is a highly cited scholar, a global lifelong influence scientist and a fellow of the China Petroleum Society. Led the approved Huang Danian-style teacher team in national universities, cultivated an internationally influential oilfield chemistry and oil recovery improvement research and innovation team, and has trained a total of 7 national talents and 146 postdoctoral and doctoral students, including 146 postdoctoral and master's students20 people won the National Postgraduate Scholarship, and 37 people won the Challenge Cup national competition and other national science and technology competition awards.  

SPE is the world's largest academic organization serving managers, engineers, scientists, and other

 professionals in the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry, with more than 164,000 members in 154 countries. The International Society of Petroleum Engineers is committed to promoting the collection, dissemination and exchange of technical knowledge on the exploration, development and production of oil and gas resources, providing a platform for professionals to enhance their technical and professional capabilities.