The establishment of oil & gas storage and transportation specialty in China—sixty-year backtracking

The oil & gas storage and transportation major in colleges and universities in China was established in 1952. For the past 60 years, the higher education of the oil & gas storage and transportation major has gone through many ups and downs. It gradually grew up through research, and expanded rapidly with the reform and opening-up and the great development of the petroleum industry. This paper reviews the establishment and development process in different phases of the oil & gas storage major, and proposes the hope of development in the future. Talent training and the close integration between scientific research and production practice are the fine traditions of setting up the oil & gas storage and transportation major, and it should be carried forward further. With a view to the future development of the energy industry, strengthening the basic research of major issues of oil & gas storage and transportation major, and improving the practical and creative abilities of students in different levels are the only way of further expanding the oil & gas storage and transportation major.