1953

Establishment of the Department of Petroleum Drilling and Production

Establishment of undergraduate programs of Drilling Engineering and Production Engineering

1961

Department of Petroleum Development

1986

Establishment of Doctoral Programs of Oil & Gas Well Engineering and Oil & Gas Development Engineering.

1987

Establishment of undergraduate program of Reservoir Engineering

1994

Establishment of undergraduate program of Petroleum Engineering

1995

Department of Petroleum Engineering

1998

Oil & Gas Engineering approved as the First-class Discipline

1999

Establishment of Postdoctoral Station for Oil & Gas Engineering

2001

Establishment of the School of Petroleum Engineering

Establishment of undergraduate program of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering

2002

Oil & Gas Well Engineering and Oil & Gas Development Engineering approved as the National Key Discipline

2007

Oil and Gas Engineering approved as the National First-class Key Discipline

2009

Experimental Teaching Center approved as National Demonstration

2012

Establishment of undergraduate program of Offshore Oil & Gas Engineering

2013

Establishment of Doctoral Programs of Offshore Oil & Gas Engineering.

2015

Establishment of Shandong Key Laboratory of Oilfield Chemistry

2017

Oil and Gas Engineering approved for the National Construction of “World First-class Discipline”

2018

Establishment of Key Laboratory of Unconventional Oil & Gas Development, Ministry of Education