Petroleum Geology and Recovery Efficiency, approved by State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, supervised by China Petrochemical Corporation and sponsored by Shengli Oilfield Company of China Petrochemical Corporation, is an openly accessible national core petroleum engineering journal. The national unified continuous number is CN37-1359/TE, the international standard serial number is ISSN1009-9603 .

Petroleum Geology and Recovery Efficiency is devoted to discuss the advancement of innovative science and technology of hydrocarbon exploration and development and improve hydrocarbon recovery efficiency. The periodical covers the major fields of oil and gas exploration and development. There are columns such as "oil and gas geology", "oil and gas recovery", "expert forum" and so on.

The reputation and influence of Petroleum Geology and Recovery Efficiency is expanding within national oil and gas industry since it is launched. It is now the resource journal of the Chinese scientific Citation Database (CSCD), the statistical resource journal of the Comprehensive Evaluation Database of Chinese Academic Periodicals, and the indexed journal accepted by the Full Text Database of Chinese Periodicals, China Petroleum Digest, American Petroleum Digest PA, American Chemical Digest CE, American EBSCO Database, Chinese Academic Journal (CD), China Core Journal (selection) Database and China Academic Journal Comprehensive Evaluation Database. It was accepted as the national core periodical by the Chinese Core Periodicals View jointly organized by the library of Peking University and other university’ libraries in Beijing.

It is bimonthly, big 16 opens, 126 pages journal, published on singular month every year. The price of each book is 50 yuan, and the total price is 300 yuan for the whole year. The scope of issuance has been covered by various oil field management agencies, factories, mines, petroleum academies and research institutes.