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Located in Ploiesti, the economic, cultural and social center of Prahova county, the Petroleum-Gas University has become the intellectual core of the city. Its evolution has pursued the scientific, economic and social changes, trying continually to offer its students the best opportunities to learn and grow to meet the demands of their future.

Knowing our history, you will come to know and understand better our mission and place in the large field of the academic life.

1948


Foundation in Bucharest under the name of the Petroleum and Gas Institute (PGI) with two faculties: the Drilling-Production Faculty (later on named the Faculty of Reservoir Engineering and at present the Faculty of Petroleum Engineering) and the Faculty of Petroleum Refining (later on named the Faculty of Petroleum and Gas Processing and Chemistry and at present the Faculty of Petroleum Refining and Petrochemistry).

1950


New faculties added: the Faculty of Oil Machines and Equipment (later on named the Faculty of Technological Equipment, and at present, to better express the field of activity and its specialties, the Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering), the Faculty of Economics and Organization of Petroleum Industry (it functioned until 1968) and the Faculty of Petroleum and Gas Deposits Geology (later on named the Faculty of Geology due to extending the field of activity after the transfer, in 1957, of the Faculty of Geology from the Geology and Mining Institute of Bucharest).

1957


Changing of name into the Petroleum, Gas and Geology Institute (PGGI) of Bucharest.

1966-1967


Post-graduate UNESCO courses were organized in French in the specialty of Petroleum Geology

1967-1974


The PGGI of Bucharest was transferred to Ploieşti under the name of the Petroleum and Gas Institute (PGI) except for the Faculty of Geology, which became part of the University of Bucharest in 1974.

1968

Setting up of the short-term (3 years) university training programs

1968-1992


Post-graduate UNESCO courses were organized in English in Petrochemistry

1972


The evening university education programs started.

1992


The PGI changed its name into the University of Ploieşti and included a new faculty, the Faculty of Letters and Sciences. In 1993, along with three short-term specialties in the technical field there appeared Secretarial Science and Administration Technical University College. For a better definition of tradition and structure, in 1993 the University of Ploieşti changed its name into “Petroleum -Gas” University (PGU) of Ploieşti.

1994


Master's degree for Mechanical, Petroleum and Chemical Engineering, Post-Graduate Academic Studies School in Petroleum.

1995


Post-graduate MBA courses

1998


The Teachers' Training Department within the PGU started delivering courses for teachers' basic and continuous education.

1999


Câmpina College and Ploieşti Teachers College founded within PGU.

2000


Post-graduate College of Economic Arbitration Management

2001


PGU included in its academic programs the Open and Distance Learning courses in the specializations of the University faculties.

2002


PGU included among its faculties the Faculty of Economic Sciences, formed by separation from the original Faculty of Letters and Sciences. Ever since 1951, the PGU has organized Doctor's Degree training and it has obtained the right to grant scientific titles of Doctor of Science (PhD) and the title of Doctor Honoris Causa. At present, the doctor's degrees are organized in the field of Engineering Sciences. The degrees granted by technical faculties have been accepted all over the world. Since 1997, the technical faculties have been included in the FEANI index. The graduate can be registered in the FEANI register getting the title of European Master of Science EURING, according to the conditions imposed by FEANI.