Abstract: Under the background of new engineering, this paper analyzed that the combination of petroleum engineering majors with information technology and artificial intelligence technology under the internationalization and intelligent development trend of petroleum industry, is not only the need to meet the job requirements of the oil industry under the new situation, but also the key to the reform of the new engineering of petroleum engineering majors. Then, by adjusting the training programs, optimizing the curriculum system, and constructing the practical teaching platform, the methods for reforming and upgrading of petroleum engineering majors were studied, in order to cultivate high-level professionals in petroleum engineering with an international vision, multidisciplinary knowledge background and especially for intelligent oilfield. The results can be used as reference for the reforming and upgrading of petroleum engineering majors in other universities.

Key words: Petroleum engineering, Intelligent oilfield, New engineering, Reforming and upgrading