Founded in 1954, School of Geosciences has a long history with its first name of Department of Petroleum Geology, as a part of Beijing Petroleum Institute. In the history, it had changed the name several times, Department of Petroleum Exploration in 1961, Department of Petroleum Resources Science in 1996, School of Earth Resources and Information in 2000, and School of Earth Science and Technology in 2011. During its 70 years of development, Teachers and students from School of Geoscience have worked hard and dedicated themselves to talent cultivation and scientific research in the field of oil and gas exploration and developm
ent. With the target of to meet the national oil and gas demand and energy strategic security, tachers and students participated in the exploration and discovery of almost all large oil and gas fields in China, supported the development of the petroleum geology disciplines in other petroleum universities, and made great contributions to the development of China's petroleum industry and higher education on petroleum exploration.
1. Department and Administrative
School of Geosciences consists of four departments, covering Geology, Petroleum Geology, Geophysics, and Well Logging and the administrative office, include public affairs office and student affair office.
2. Faculty and students
School of Geosciences has 189 faculty members, including 66 professors and 66 associated professors. Among them, there is one full-time academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 3 Special Talents, 1 National Outstanding Teacher, 3 NSF for Distinguished Young Scholars, 2 scholars of “Millions of Talents Project”, 1 entrant of “New Century Talents Project”, 3 entrants of “New Century Talents Supporting Project”, 1 Changjiang Scholar and 2 Youth Changjiang Scholar, and 16 Young Taishan Scholar.
There are 2404 students in School of Geosciences, including 1212 undergraduates, 1124 graduates (including 410 PhD students and 710 master students) and 68 oversea students. As a “cradle” of educating talents for petroleum industry, our school has educated more than 18,000 undergraduates and4,700 postgraduates.
3. Disciplines and Majors
National Double First Discipline: Geological Resources and Geological Engineering (Ranking A+ in the national disciplines assessment)
National Key Discipline: Mineral resource prospecting and exploration
National Key Discipline (Cultivating): Geophysical Prospecting and Information Technology
High level Discipline in Shandong Province: Geology, Geophysics
Postdoctoral Discipline: Geological Resources and Geological Engineering, Geology
Doctor degree awarded Discipline: Geological Resources and Geological Engineering, Geology, Geophysics, Resources and environments (Geological engineering)
Master degree awarded Discipline: Geological Resources and Geological Engineering, Geology, Geophysics, Marine Science, Resources and environments (Geological engineering)
Bachelor degree awarded Major: Petroleum Geology, Geophysical Exploration, Geology, Geophysics
The Discipline of geoscience ranked in ESI top 1% in July of 2015 and ranked in ESI top 1‰ in November, 2022. The Engineering Discipline ranked in ESI top 1‰ in march, 2019.
4. Scientific Research
Scientific direction:
Geological Resources and Geological Engineering: Mechanism and Enrichment of Oil and Gas Accumulation, oil & gas reservoirs characterization and residue oil distribution, seismic image and reservoir geophysics, Petrophysics and complicated reservoir well logging
Geology:sequence stratigraphy and sedimentology, reservoir geology, structural geology, geochemistry, paleontology and stratigraphy
Geophysics: Theory and Methods of Reservoir Geophysics, Theory and Imaging of Seismic Wave Propagation, Seismology and Deep Geophysics, Integrated Geophysics
Innovation Research Group of NSFC：Mechanism of Petroleum Accumulation
Innovation Research Group of Shandong Province: oil & gas geology and exploration
National and provincial scientific researching platform: 24, including the state Key laboratory of deep Oil and gas.
Since 2016, School of Geosciences has undertaken 5 major projects, 20 important or key projects supported by NSFC and more than 300 other national projects. Focusing on the academic frontier and state energy development strategy, targeting on oil and gas exploration in deep strata, deep-water, and unconventional reservoir, as well as the production enhancement of old oil fields, 4 State Science and Technology Awards were awarded. Published papers indexed by SCI, EI and ISTP were more than 3000pcs (more than 1500pcs by SCI).
5. International Exchange and Cooperation
School of Geosciences places a high premium on international exchange and cooperation with overseas well-known university and institutes, having more than 50 MOU or cooperation agreement. At present, there are 5 national international projects to send students study abroad or invite foreign scientists to give lectures in UPC. Every year, there are more than 30 foreign professors to give lectures in School of Geosciences and more than 20 students to studying abroad. In order to promote the international experience of teachers and students, there are more than 150 visits to international conference. School of Geosciences hold the UPC International Symposium on New Well Logging Techniques continuously in 14 years. There are more than 30 English taught courses and more than 60 foreign students studying in School of geosciences.
