Library Facilities:

The Petroleum Engineering Department library is an integrated part of the main library of the College of Engineering and Petroleum. Petroleum books and related material occupy three shelves, and are arranged according to the Library of Congress classification. Our library contains petroleum engineering books, a variety of petroleum periodicals from the US, Canada, European and other countries, reports, video tape films for short courses and CD ROM for all SPE papers. The library is located within the premises of the College of Engineering and is open from 8 AM to 12 AM from Saturday to Wednesday and from 8 AM to 1 PM on Thursday. It provides petroleum engineering students and staff with inter-library loans, CD-ROM services, and conferences and meetings indexes. It also provides an on-line search services and access to databases such as LOCKHEAD (Dialog), whereby literature search of various bibliographic files are accessed upon request. Document delivery is provided from the database vendor when material is not available at Kuwait University.

The department is currently building a reading room that is located inside the department. This reading room makes a small collection of basic books, journals, reports, conference proceedings, theses, and specialized petroleum dissertations from various universities from around the world.

The department is also connected online to the SPE OIL library so that faculty members can have instantaneous literature search feedback.