Southwest Petroleum University was established in 1958 and is the second petroleum undergraduate institution established in New China. It is a teaching and research oriented university jointly built by the central and local governments, mainly managed by the Sichuan Provincial People's Government. Originally named Sichuan Petroleum Institute, it was renamed Southwest Petroleum Institute in 1970 and Southwest Petroleum University in 2005. After 50 years of construction and development, the school has become a multi-disciplinary university with the characteristics and advantages of petroleum and natural gas and its supporting disciplines. It has a wide range of social general majors, with engineering as the main focus and coordinated development of science, engineering, management, economics, literature, law, and education. The school has a complete range of disciplines, reasonable professional settings, and complete educational levels. It is one of the earliest universities in the country to have the right to confer doctoral, master's, and bachelor's degrees. Known as the Huangpu Military Academy among petroleum universities.

    Southwest Petroleum University and Hongze Dongjun Machinery Co., Ltd. jointly established a doctoral workstation, which mainly relies on the production and experimental equipment and market of Hongze Dongjun Machinery Co., Ltd. The expert team composed of doctoral students and master's supervisors from Southwest Petroleum University is the main technical force, integrating research and development, experimentation, production, and sales, forming a combination of production, learning, research, and application, promoting the transformation of technology into practical productivity.
In the near future, workstations will make efforts in the application of Christmas trees and wellhead equipment research, providing technical and intellectual support for enterprise products to be in a leading position in the industry.