Text: “The Gubkin University”.

Petroleum engineering is a wide sector of national economy and it requires highly qualified specialist. The petroleum industry is expounding, therefore, it needs employees with engineering productivity and manufacturing processes. All these create a lot of job opportunities for petroleum engineers.

Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas is Russia’s principle University of petroleum engineering and a major research centre offering training for specialists of oil and gas production. The University was founded in 1930 by academician I.M. Gubkin. He is known as the prominent scholar who established a new branch of geological science in Russia – petroleum geology. I.M. Gubkin put forward a new idea of training a petroleum engineer with a profound academic background. He stated that a petroleum engineer should be an expert in deep drilling, exploitation chemistry and technology of oil as well as economics. He was the first to introduce a special-purpose academic program designed to balance theory and practice, field and lab studies. The Gubkin University of today is known worldwide for the excellence of its teaching, research and the quality of its graduates. Lectures, seminars and practical classes are led by the people who are the world experts in their field. The University offers training at many of fields: bachelor, graduate engineer, master, candidate of science and doctor of science. It trains specialists on many specialties: petroleum geology; oil and gas field development; drilling; pipeline and storage design and construction; chemical engineering; environmental engineering; oil and gas field machinery; industrial automation; transportation and processing of hydrocarbons; design and operation of oil product equipment; economics, management, law and many other specialties.

The students of the University have excellent conditions for studies: a good library, laboratories, numerous classrooms, lecture-halls itc. Many of the students do research work and take part in scientific conferences.

The Gubkin University has strong links with many oil and gas producing and processing companies; research institutions, business and industry in Russia and abroad. Gubkin’s teaching is in the top rank nationally and internationally. The University has some branches in a few regions of Russia. The Orenburg branch of Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas was founded in 1984. It trains well-educated specialists for oil and gas industry. It’s graduates work at different subdivisions of the enterprise “Gasprom production Orenburg”. It should be noted that Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas and its branches is famous for its first class education. It’s graduates engineers are in great demand and they have excellent employment opportunities in different branches of oil and gas industry.

Words and word combinations:

petroleum engineering – нефтегазовое дело

to expand – расширяет(ся)

employee – служащий

engineering knowledge – технические знания

manufacturing processes – производственные процессы

research centre – научный центр

training – обучение

bachelor – бакалавр

master – магистр

graduate engineer – дипломированный специалист

scholar – ученый

background – подготовка, квалификация

put forward – выдвигать, предлагать

to be in great demand – пользоваться большим спросом

employment opportunities – возможности трудоустройства

branch – отрасль

science – наука

to take part – принимать участие

it should be noted – следует отметить.