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Texas Tech Builds Petroleum Research Facility

Published 11/21/2012

Texas Tech is building the $22.8 million Petroleum Engineering and Research Building in Lubbock. Designed by Kirksey Architecture, the 40,000-sf facility will provide research laboratories and classrooms for the Bob L. Herd Department of Petroleum Engineering, including the unconventional technology center; a fracturing techniques suite; a fluids lab; a reservoir simulation center and drilling lab; a rheology lab; and a pressure volume temperature lab. The building will also house the Apache Upstream Research Center. Ground was broken on the facility in October of 2012 with completion is expected in February of 2014. The general contractor for the project is Vaughn Construction.

Organization Project Role
Vaughn Construction
General Contractor