New Offshore Energy Center Found Its Home.

The University of Houston will lead an offshore energy project created with funding from BP Deepwater Horizon settlement. The highlights:

• “U of H was selected to lead the Subsea Systems Institute, a group of local universities, colleges and NASA, in the effort.”
• U of H beat the University of Texas at Austin, Texas Tech University and Texas A&M-Kingsville in its bid to lead one of the research coalitions
  • U of H offers the only subsea engineering academic program in the nation.
• The Houston coalition includes: Rice University, Texas Southern University, Houston Community College, Lone Star College and the Johnson Space Center.
• Another research center will be anchored at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

The research teams will study:

• Preventing blowouts
• Gaining an improved understanding of how oil flows from the ocean’s floor, where pressure is much higher

Funding will be administered by TCEQ.  Houston Chronicle  Houston Business Journal