The Southern Technical University discussed ways of joint cooperation with the Iranian Petroleum Technological University, this came during the meeting of the President of the University, Prof. Adnan Abdullah Atiq, with Prof. Dr. Mohammad Chahardoli and his accompanying delegation. During the meeting, Atiq explained the university’s keenness to develop cultural and scientific relations between the two universities in order to serve common interests, pointing out that the specializations of the Petroleum University are equivalent to those of our university in addition to many research joints, and Mr. President stressed that the directives of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research urge to exchange knowledge cooperation with other universities as they are important in