Reducing our national dependence on imported energy is a critical first step in achieving a secure energy future.  Domestically, major oil and gas companies are transforming themselves into broad sector energy companies by developing complementary capacities to deliver energy in all key sectors.  Texas A&M University will play a key role in this expanding energy domain, particularly as home to one of the largest and most highly-ranked petroleum engineering  departments in the nation with a global reputation for solving significant research and technology development problems of critical interest to industry and government.  The capacity of the Energy Institute to link key oil and gas engineering departments, chemical engineering programs, and petroleum research centers across the A&M System together with industry and other partners will play a central role in exploiting this enormous expertise and focusing it on our key national energy challenges, from developing new technologies for petroleum exploration and production to the development of technologies for C02 capture, injection, and sequestration.

The Texas A&M Energy Institute and the Texas Center for Applied Technology have created an Industry Research Partnership to address oil and gas environmental issues in an accurate way.