[1] The university was established under the Federal Government of Nigeria[2] initiative, to build a specialized university in the Niger Delta to produce middle and higher level manpower and expertise for the oil and gas sector.
[3][4] The National Universities Commission[5](NUC) approved sharing of facilities between the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI), Effurun and Federal University of Petroleum Resources Effurun until it moved to its permanent site on development of its main campus at Ugbomro, Uvwie Local Government Area[6] Delta State, in 2010.
Some of them include[citation needed] University Library began on September 6, 2010, with the assumption of duty by a Principal Librarian, Mr. Mathew I. Okoh.
At the time the library became open to users, it had the following titles in stock: books- 3000, journals- 85 and an offline database of over 2000 electronic journal articles in Oil and Gas, General sciences, Engineering, ICT and Earth Science.
Also, there is an e-library with functional Internet facilities that provides access to varieties of educational materials.