Energy

In everything we do, we bring the energy.

Sarah Okpe

When BENTELER Steel/Tube Manufacturing Corporation technicians begin work in the international company’s new $21 million threading facility at the Port of Caddo-Bossier later this year, they’ll be using an interface designed by an LSU Shreveport graduate student.

Process technology students at River Parishes Community College

LSU’s energy team, called FUEL, works to help double the state’s current energy workforce, including by enabling Louisiana’s community and technical colleges to invest in people and programs that are closely aligned with industry needs.

Engineers at Baker Hughes

Learn why industry leaders Shell, ExxonMobil, and Baker Hughes joined LSU’s winning team to help secure $160M in federal funding for energy economic development in Louisiana.

LSU PERTT Lab

A statewide effort led by LSU with more than 50 partners has won the largest and most competitive grant ever awarded by the U.S. National Science Foundation—up to $160 million over the next 10 years.

Lee Stockwell

LSU petroleum engineering alumnus Lee Stockwell leads carbon capture and storage at Shell, shaping the nationwide development of one of the premier technologies for the ongoing transition toward energy sustainability for the world.

LSU energy transition campus footprint

LSU momentum in energy R&D sparks a bold approach to advance talent and technology.

Home in Houma, but at what price?

LSU AgCenter’s LaHouse partners with builders and policymakers to protect residents and lower insurance costs.

AI-generated art of data streams in water

The LSU tool to predict storm surge and flooding during severe weather events—the CERA website—serves thousands of emergency managers and first responders to help protect people and infrastructure. Now, the tool will become even smarter and faster, thanks to artificial intelligence, or AI.

AI-generated art of data in chemical manufacturing

BASF, the largest chemical producer in the world, is collaborating with LSU chemical engineers to better understand and predict its own production ebbs and flows using artificial intelligence, or AI.

Jyotsna Sharma

Merging multiple new technologies, LSU petroleum engineer and professor Jyotsna Sharma is collaborating with industry to make Louisiana’s oil and gas production safer and more sustainable.

John “Cal” Hendershot

LSU chemical engineering student John “Cal” Hendershot develops solutions for Louisiana’s chemical companies, which are closely tied to oil and gas, to allow them to stay true to 2050 carbon neutrality commitments but remain operational and profitable along the way.

Artificial photosynthesis

LSU researchers are exploring new ways to use the oldest energy source on our planet—sunlight—to create truly green energy on demand.

Ships at Port Fourchon

Port Fourchon in Lafourche Parish serves 90% of the Gulf of Mexico’s deepwater oil and gas activities, housing at least 250 companies.

Christine Wiley

Since 2019, LSU professors have collaborated with Entergy on shaping the university curriculum, including hands-on labs, to make sure electrical engineering graduates are competitive in the increasingly complex power engineering field.

Average rent increases, parish by parish

LSU develops energy-efficient construction solutions to help lower housing costs.