Na Wei is a Professor at the Southwest Petroleum University, Dean of the Research Institute of Marine Natural Gas Hydrate, a researcher in the State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation Engineering, and Executive Director of the Cooperative Innovation Center of Marine Natural Gas Hydrate Development. She is an expert in controlled-pressure drilling and gas-underbalanced drilling. She is the principal author of 9 books and author/coauthor of more than 60 research papers.