"The most comprehensive center of knowledge in the petroleum industry."

The University of Oklahoma Sarkeys Energy Center includes six interdisciplinary institutes and a special institute which focuses on the Western Hemisphere. All the institutes involve faculty from the colleges of Atmospheric & Geographic Sciences, 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.

The mission of the University of Oklahoma Sarkeys Energy Center is to foster premier interdisciplinary energy research and education through various means of technology transfer, and to enhance regional economic growth and national energy and economic security.

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.