Bachelor in English
Petroleum Processing and Petrochemistry
Just few words about us
Our faculty trains specialists who are part of the international elite of the industry. Around 7000 engineers, researchers, teachers and others from Romania and also from 68 countries have graduated this faculty. We are proud to say that in any industrial location from Europe, Asia, Africa or the U.S. there are specialists prepared in our laboratories. The graduates of this faculty can handle jobs as engineers in oil processing refinery, also in research institutes and design installations of chemical and petrochemical industries or as specialists in test laboratories of various oil companies and assessment of air quality, water or soil.
PETROLEUM-GAS UNIVERSITY OF PLOIESTI • Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti was founded in Bucharest, in 1948, under the name of Petroleum-Gas Institute. The Institute had, as a main aim, to train the engineers required by the petroleum and gas industry in Romania. In 1975 was finished the transfer of Petroleum-Gas Institute of Ploiesti. In 1992, the Petroleum-Gas Institute of Ploiesti became University of Ploiesti, as new faculties and sections in the fields of economic studies and humanities were set up. For a better definition of tradition and structure, in 1993 the University of Ploiesti changed its name into ‘’Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiești”.
• The present academic structure of the Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti includes five faculties: the Faculty of Petroleum-Gas Engineering, the Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, the Faculty of Refining and Petrochemistry, the Faculty of Economic Sciences and the Faculty of Letters and Sciences.
• Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti is among the most active academic backgrounds which sustain the collaboration, the exchange of experience with prestigious higher education from all over the world, both students and teachers being involved in bilateral programs. Through these programs, you will have the chance to meet students from universities of Germany, France, Belgium, England, United States of America, Russia, Ukraine, Japan, New Mexico, France, Poland, Slovakia, Greece or Taiwan. The Erasmus Bilateral Agreements offer multiple choices of optimal solutions in order to develop specific skills for your specializations.
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