The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) annually awards an award to student sections that have demonstrated the most outstanding results of their work among sections around the world.

The evaluation takes into account: the number and scale of the events carried out by the section, cooperation with the faculty of the university supervising the SPE professional section and industry companies, as well as the number of section’s members and their activity in events conducted under the auspices of the society.

The 2018 Outstanding Student Chapter Award is the seventh: before that, Gubkin SPE Student Chapter received such awards as «Outstanding chapter» (2012, 2014, 2017) and «Gold Standard» (2012, 2013, 2015).