UNIVERSITATEA PETROL-GAZE DIN PLOIESTI

The University of Petroleum and Gas (UPG) of Ploieşti is a public higher education institution with a 75-year tradition and remarkable results in Romanian higher education.

The University of Petroleum and Gas of Ploieşti was initially established as the Institute of Petroleum and Gas (I.P.G.) Bucharest. The Institute of Petroleum and Gas, a technical higher education institution with a unique profile in Romania, was established in Bucharest in 1948 and had two faculties in its structure - the Faculty of Drilling and Production, currently the Faculty of Petroleum and Gas Engineering, and the Faculty of Crude Oil Processing, currently the Faculty of Petroleum Technology and Petrochemistry. Between 1950 and 1957, the two faculties were joined by the Faculty of Petroleum Machinery and Equipment, currently the Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, the Faculty of Economics and Organization of the Petroleum Industry, established in 1950 and which functioned until 1958, and the Faculty of Technical Geology, established in 1950 under the name of the Faculty of Geology of Oil and Gas Deposits and expanded as a profile after the transfer in 1957 of the Faculty of Geology from the Institute of Geology and Mining Technology in Bucharest. As a result of these structural changes, in 1957 I.P.G. changes its name to the Institute of Petroleum, Gas and Geology (I.P.G.G.). The changes in political, economic and social life that occurred in Romania after December 1989 allowed the Institute of Petroleum and Gas from Ploieşti to rethink its status and to consider that the 45 years of experience and performance in the field of higher education, the material base created during this time and, especially, the human potential at its disposal allow it, while maintaining and continuing to develop the didactic and scientific traditions of the higher oil school, to broaden its profile and become a University, a unique center of state higher education in Prahova, capable of meeting the training needs in several fields of young people from this area of ​​the country, strongly developed economically. As a result, in 1992 the Faculty of Letters and Sciences was established, with four training profiles: economics, philology, mathematics-computer science and chemistry-physics. Due to the large number of students, in 2002 the Faculty of Letters and Sciences was reorganized into the Faculty of Economic Sciences and the Faculty of Letters and Sciences.

In addition to student training, the Petrol-Gaze ​​University of Ploieşti had special concerns and results in the field of postgraduate training activities, organizing postgraduate courses, specializations and doctorates. From the academic year 1993 - 1994, the School of Postgraduate Studies was established within the University of Ploieşti, with the specialization "Water Injection", full-time courses lasting 2 years, where teaching was carried out in English by teachers from the University and from abroad. Also, starting with the academic year 1994 - 1995, in-depth study programs were organized, full-time courses lasting one year, in the Chemistry profile, the specializations Modern Technologies in Oil Processing and Petrochemistry and Catalysis and Catalysts in Oil Processing and Environmental Protection, in the Mechanical profile, the specializations Petroleum Equipment for Marine Exploitations, Reliability of Petroleum and Petrochemical Equipment and Petrochemical and Refinery Equipment, in the Petroleum profile, the specializations Directed Well Drilling, Reservoir Engineering, Oil and Gas Extraction and Hydrocarbon Transport and Distribution Systems, respectively, in the Management field, Management of Economic, Tourist and Administrative Systems, which functioned until 2010, Public Sector Management, Management of Microeconomic Systems, in the Business Administration field, Administration and Financing of Development Projects, Strategies in International Affairs, in the Accounting field, Accounting, Auditing and Accounting Expertise, Business Database Systems.