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The Center for Midstream Management and Science ("Midstream Center" or "Center") was established and funded by the Texas legislature in late 2019 to serve as a bridge between Â鶹AV and the midstream industry, which includes:

  • Oil, NGL, and natural gas transportation
  • Natural gas processing
  • NGL fractionation
  • LNG terminals
  • Terminal and storage services

Â鶹AV is located in Beaumont, Texas in the middle of one of the largest and most important transportation, storage, refining, and petrochemical complexes in the world and has been graduating as many as 300 engineers each year in service of this huge industry for generations.

The Midstream Center is the only academic organization focused solely on the midstream industry. Its general mission is to work in partnership with the midstream industry with the objective of identifying and solving industry operational problems and advancing technologies impacting the midstream sector.

Since our formation in September 2019, we have funded seed capital for internal midstream-centric applied research projects totaling $2.1 million.

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Our Mission

The mission of the Center for Midstream Management and Science is to establish and grow a cross-discipline industry/university collaboration that ties breakthroughs in upstream access to oil and gas to the downstream advances in refining that have improved capacity, environmental compliance, and safety.

  1. Through externally (particularly from corporate resources, federal agencies and foundations) supported research, develop advanced solutions for the midstream industry, such as technology gaps related to capacities, distribution, storage, optimization, reliability, inspection, data analytics and decision making, predictive maintenance, resilience, cyber physical security, IIoT, safety, environmental compliance, economics, new and emerging markets, and future business opportunities.
  2. Provide advanced value-added education and workforce development (training, workshops, and certifications) to midstream stakeholders based on joint research initiatives.
  3. Distribute these solutions and knowledge broadly to the industry, workforce, policymakers, students and scholars.