Sarkeys Energy Center Information

The University of Oklahoma Sarkeys Energy Center

The most comprehensive center of knowledge in the petroleum industry.

The University of Oklahoma Sarkeys Energy

Sarkeys Energy Center photo Center includes six interdisciplinary institutes and a special institute which focuses on the Western Hemisphere. All the institutes involve faculty from the colleges of Geosciences, Arts and

Sciences, Law, Business and Engineering. Focusing on the energy-related strengths of the university, the institutes develop technology and programs that advance the energy industry in the state and throughout the world and provide significant, "real world" research and education opportunities for students.

Research Facilities

The center is a four-square-block, seven-acre, 340,000 square-foot teaching and energy research complex located on the northeast corner of the Norman campus of the University of Oklahoma. There are more than 200 teaching and research laboratories, over 30 classrooms, and faculty and administrative offices. The center is also home to the Lawrence S. Youngblood Energy Library, which houses the combined geology and geophysics collections of the Oklahoma Geological Survey and the University of Oklahoma that began in the late 1890s, and today contains more than 90,000 catalogued volumes and more than 200,000 map sheets.

Completed in 1991, the Sarkeys Energy Center provides a state-of-the-art setting in which OU's faculty and students and the energy industry can explore interdisciplinary energy issues and train future generations of researchers and industry leaders.

The center makes possible an interdisciplinary approach to research as well as critical interaction and collaboration with industry and governmental agencies. The facility provides researchers with highly sophisticated equipment in state-of-the-art laboratories, enabling them to effectively seek solutions not only to today's problems, but to identify and begin addressing the problems of tomorrow as well.

Education

Providing the best possible education for the hundreds of students currently enrolled in energy-related disciplines at the University of Oklahoma is a primary goal of the center. The center exposes students to cutting edge technology in courses and research, and assists students in building relationships with industry through sponsored research. The institutes and program units of the center also organize graduate research seminars and directly participate on thesis committees.

The center also provides training to the petroleum industry through short courses on the OU campus and on-site training around the world.


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