The electronic scientific journal “Oil and Gas Business” is meant for the specialists of the petroleum and gas industries, and also for teachers, students, post-graduate students and scientific employees.

The founder of the journal: Ufa State Petroleum Technological University.

USPTU is one of the largest technological universities in Russia, one of the leading schools training scientific – pedagogical staff both for the profile schools of Russia and research institutes of the petroleum, gas and building industries.

About 13 thousand students from 49 subjects of the Russian Federation and foreign states (in 2001 – 169 foreign students from 24 countries,) study at the university. The training is conducted on 27 licensed specialities and directions on more than 15 specializations at 60 faculties. The staff training is provided by 836 teachers, including 26 full members and corresponding members of the public Academies of Sciences of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Bashkortostan, 117 Doctors of Sciences, Professors and 456 assistant professors, candidates of sciences.

Additionally, about 4 thousand engineers of Russian fuel-energy complex and petroleum enterprises of Kazakhstan annually take the courses of qualification improvement and professional retraining at the Qualification Improvement Institute of the University.

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