中国石油大学（华东）图书馆始建于1953年，当时是北京石油学院图书馆，在清华大学石油工程系图书资料室的基础上建立。迁校山东后，先后于1980年、1997年两次在东营建馆，2004年在青岛建成本馆。截至2018年底，馆藏纸质图书307.4万册，数字图书738万种，其中电子书185万种，同比增长12.1%，学位论文828万种，同比增长44.5%，数字资源总量达75T。
本馆建有3个书库和5个阅览室，阅览区、研读区、休读区拥有座位资源3880余个，实行以读者为中心的藏、借、阅、咨询一体化的服务模式。本馆为读者提供书刊借阅、资源查询、科技项目查新、馆际互借与文献传递、用户培训、电子阅览等服务，是学校教学科研最重要的公共服务体系之一。
中国石油大学（华东）图书馆将进一步加强资源建设，强化优质服务，强化阅读环境、人文环境和学术环境建设，把图书馆建成“成长成才成功的摇篮，学生学者学术的家园”。
China University of Petroleum Library
China University of Petroleum Library was established in 1953. It was the library of Beijing Petroleum Institute at that time, which was founded on the basis of the reference room of the Petroleum Engineering Department of Tsinghua University. After the school's relocation to Shandong Province, the library was rebuilt twice in 1980 &1997 respectively in Dongying. The library on Qingdao Campus built in 2004. The library has a collection of 2.92 million volumes of printed books, over 1391 kinds of domestic & foreign printed periodicals,6.77 million types of E-books & 36thousand types of E-journals in the library. It also contains 119 databases, the E-resources has reached to 7TB up to 2016.
This Library contains 3 book stacks & 5 reading rooms. There are over 3,880 seats in the reading, studying & leisure- reading sections. Its service mode, combining collection, borrowing, reading, & consulting together, is centered on the readers.
As one of the most important teaching & research public service systems of the university, the library provides readers with various services of book borrowing, data inquiry, science & technology item inquiry, inter-lending, document delivery, user training, & electronic reading, etc.
China University of Petroleum Library will further strengthen the resources construction, improve services, & build excellent reading, humanistic & academic environment so as to become “a cradle of growth & success, & an academic resort for learners & scholars”.
