Petroleum & Natural Gas

The birthplace of the modern petroleum and natural industry began near Titusville, Pennsylvania on August 27,1859 upon Edwin L. Drake’s completion of a 70 foot deep oil well which quickly stimulated a boom for the industry. Today, society utilizes petroleum and natural gas to produce a myriad of products ranging from transportation fuels and petrochemicals, heating homes and businesses, and generate electricity.

The Energy Institute brings together diverse expertise in the areas of domestic petroleum and natural gas extraction, processing, and utilization. A newly established state-of-the-art OMNI-X industrial-based x-ray scanner facility and a rapidly growing industry-driven consortium focused on the development of technologies to improve the production performance of domestic stripper wells provide unique partnership opportunities.