Industrialization has promoted the prosperity of global oil industry.However,soil pollution caused by oil production and utilization is becoming more and more serious.The green,economical,stable and efficient remedia-tion technology of petroleum polluted soil has been developed.Based on the present situation and the harm of petro-leum contaminated soil,we summarized the existing physical,chemical,biological,and combined remediation technologies and remediation mechanisms of petroleum contaminated soil.Meanwhile,we expounded the applicable conditions,advantages,and disadvantages of different restoration methods.Finally,we prospected the future deve-lopment direction and challenge of remediation technology of petroleum contaminated soil.This work provides a ref-erence for the research of remediation of petroleum contaminated soil and the selection of engineering application technology.