The school was established on the basis of Tsinghua University Petroleum Department 1953, which brought together some teachers from Tianjin University and Peking University. 1960 was identified as a national key university; 1969 moved to Shandong and changed its name to East China Petroleum Institute; 1988 was renamed Petroleum University, which consists of Beijing and East China; In February 2000, the school was placed under the management of the Ministry of Education by China Petroleum and Natural Gas Group Corporation, and it was made clear that the University of Petroleum (Beijing) and the University of Petroleum (East China) were relatively independent; In June 2005, the school was renamed.

There are currently 0/759 faculty members in the school, including 296 professors and 440 associate professors. There are 3 academicians of China Academy of Sciences, 2 academicians of China Academy of Engineering, 5 double-hired academicians, 5 winners of the National Outstanding Youth Fund 12, 5 chief scientists of the National "973" Project, 4 members of the Academic Evaluation Group of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee, 4 national famous teachers 1 person, 4 national excellent teachers and 8 national candidates for the "New Century (Cross-century) Million Talents Project". There are 3 national teaching teams and 6 excellent teaching teams in Beijing.

Postgraduate re-examination content:

Professional knowledge, comprehensive quality and English for postgraduate entrance examination and retest. Postgraduate re-examination is usually divided into written examination and interview. The written test of specialized courses mainly focuses on the application of professional content, and generally there are two interview questions, one is professional content, and the other is professional field. The comprehensive quality is only interview, which mainly examines the ability of candidates to deal with professional problems; The written English test is the same as the traditional written English test, and the interview is an examination of the candidates' spoken English.