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Creating outstanding engineers in the sector of petroleum industry with high academic and professional qualifications to be capable of assuming the responsibility of exploring, drilling, and producing oil and gas within the country and other regions, and achieving national sovereignty over this very important economic resource. In addition, petroleum engineers are expected to be able to conduct research works and studies and transfer knowledge and technology for the purpose of serving and developing petroleum industry in specific and the whole community in general.
1. Providing students with the fundamentals of knowledge in the scientific and engineering areas.
2. Refining students’ professional skills and guiding them towards critical and creative thinking.
3. Exposing students to the basic knowledge of exploring, drilling, and producing oil and gas.
4. Enabling students of understanding the origin, composition, ways of exploring, and reserves estimation of oil.
5. Teaching students all the theoretical and practical frameworks that enable them of understanding oil and gas behavior inside the reservoir.
6. Teaching students oil and gas production procedures and their different phases.
To make the Petroleum Engineering Department one of the most distinguished departments in Libya and the Arab World and to make its alumni the highest qualified in the region.