The Federal University of Petroleum Resources Effurun (FUPRE) in Delta State, Nigeria was established and approved during the Federal Executive Council meeting of 14 March 2007 and admitted its first set of undergraduates in 2008.
The university was established under the Federal Government of Nigeria initiative, to build a specialized university in the Niger Delta to produce middle and higher level manpower and expertise for the oil and gas sector.
The National Universities Commission (NUC) approved sharing of facilities between the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI), Effurun and Federal University of Petroleum Resources Effurun until it moved to its permanent site on development of its main campus at Ugbomro, Uvwie Local Government Area Delta State, in 2010.
FUPRE is the first petroleum university in Africa and sixth in the world.
The administrative structure of the university consists of:
The centres and administrative departments of the university consist of:
The institution presently have two colleges with eighteen departments. The colleges are:
The College of Science and College of Technology has started running its courses for its academic session.
The Federal University Of Petroleum Resources, consists of two colleges which are College of Science and College of Technology. These Colleges are sub divided into 18 departments.
Below are a list of departments in FUPRE
College Of Science
College Of Technology
The institution presently has three educational programmes:
The university has received many recognitions. Some of them include:
University Library began on September 6, 2010, with the assumption of duty by a Principal Librarian, Mr. Mathew I. Okoh. The library became operational in October 2011 after the recruitment of staff. At the time the library became open to users, it had the following titles in stock: books- 3000, journals- 85 and an offline database of over 2000 electronic journal articles in Oil and Gas, General sciences, Engineering, ICT and Earth Science. The library serves its constituents Colleges of Science and College of Technology. Also, there is an e-library with functional Internet facilities that provides access to varieties of educational materials. The first University Librarian, Prof. Esharenana E. Adomi, assumed office in May 2015.
College Libraries
Library Services