The university has over 1,700 staff members, including over 1,200 full-time teachers, and nearly 600 with senior professional title. There are over 40 professors of the second and third grades, over 460 doctoral supervisors and master supervisors, and over 560 teachers with PhD degree. The university also possesses nearly 40 talents, including state-level expert with outstanding contributions, expert entitled to the Special Government Allowances of the State Council, national model teacher, national excellent teacher, national “Thousand Talents Plan” talent, and “National Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talent Project” talent, etc. In the university, there are over 16,000 undergraduate students, over 1,900 full-time doctoral and postgraduate students, over 1,400 part-time postgraduate students, nearly 700 international students, and over 2,600 continuing education students. The university has accumulatively cultivated over 100,000 graduates since founding.

    The university has 24 national-level, and provincial- and ministerial-level key laboratories (engineering research centers), and 1 provincial-level key technology innovation team, and has formed 7 characteristic advantageous research fields including oil-gas exploration theoretical techniques and engineering application, etc. There have been over 360 new national-level, and provincial- and ministerial-level research projects supported by Natural Science Foundation of China and National Social Science Fund of China, etc. in recent 5 years, with the total research expenditures of CNY 779 million.

    The university actively conducts international exchange and cooperation, and has established an exchange and communication relationship with 59 overseas universities (institutions). It implements the “Sino-American 1+2+1 Dual-Degree Program” with 13 American universities, “2+2 Dual-Degree for Undergraduate Students Program” with universities of the U.S., Russia, and South Korea, etc., and “4+1” and “4+2” Postgraduate Program and Doctoral Student Scholarship Program with universities of the U.S., UK and Germany, etc., short-term ”Exchange Student Program” with universities of Russia and the U.S., etc., and also the short-term abroad program to the U.S., UK, Germany, and France, etc. in winter and summer. The university actively conducts international student education, and is approved by the Ministry of Education to construct the “Demonstration Base for International Students Education”, having trained over 5,000 international students from 62 countries.