Center for Midstream Management and Science Cardinal Compass
VISION
“Advance a smarter, safer, and more sustainable midstream value-chain by uniting academic rigor with industry know-how.”
MISSION
CMMS establishes and grows a cross-discipline industry/university collaboration that ties breakthroughs in upstream access to oil and gas to downstream advances in refining, while delivering data-driven solutions, workforce development, and broad knowledge transfer for the midstream sector.
PRIORITIES
Industry & Academic Partnerships
When industry know-how and academic rigor move in lockstep, the entire midstream sector advances. CMMS is building that alignment on three fronts, solution-oriented research, workforce development, and professional education.
Solution-Oriented Research
Our research focuses on issues that industry has identified as high impact. Commitment to experimentally verified, data-driven methods ensure research activities that meet academic rigor standards and delivers practical impacts.
Workforce Development
We are streamlining pathways that move students from classroom theory into live operating environments, giving them real time exposure to the challenges of pipeline integrity, gas measurement, and emissions monitoring.
Professional Education
CMMS hosts on-campus seminars and short course certificates in areas such as process safety and gas measurement. By inviting practitioners to train alongside students, we create a common technical language.
GOALS
- Leverage CMMS Resources + Secure External Funding for Research & Education
- Education: Establish Electives and a Minor for Midstream Science & Engineering
- Research: Meeting Ground between Industry & Academia
- Results: Training and Placing Students into Top Positions in the Midstream Sector
VALUES
- Collaborations & Partnerships.
- Innovative & Applications
- Practical Impacts on the Midstream Sector
- Safety & Integrity Strengthening Research
METRICS
- Support undergraduate and graduate research projects & internships
- Cover tuition and stipends for graduate students
- Provide state-of-the-art laboratory facilities
- Well-appointed electronics lab
- Powerful computational engines
- Grants, grants, grants
- Introduction to natural gas and LNG industries and transportation
- Fundamental theories, process designs, and system performances for industrial sectors of the natural gas supply chain
- Safety, hazards, and mitigation strategies in the natural gas value chain
- E3 (economic, emission, energy efficiency) analysis for natural gas and LNG industries
- Pipeline flow optimization.
- Methane leak detection through acoustical and optical signatures.
- Advanced mathematical analysis and algorithms Computational Physics.
- Decision-making tools to optimize dynamical fluid flow(e.g. methane).
- Cyber security in the midstream sector.
- Methane migration in various soils under differing moisture content.
- Internships at local industries
- Connections with local industries.
- Advice through the Advisory Board.
- Workforce development
- Dedicated electives in midstream science and engineering for job preparation.
- Relevant research topics for the midstream sector (ME & DE)