CMMS 2023 Student Essay Contest
CMMS launched its inaugural, annual midstream essay contest open to people who are currently students at a 4-year, public university in Texas. The deadline for submissions is July 31, 2023 and awards will be made on or about September 29, 2023. The invitation was sent to 134 deans, generally engineering, arts and sciences, and business schools but some others too, at all 35 qualifying Texas universities.
The top three winners of the 2023 CMMS Midstream Essay Contest will receive:
1st Place receives a cash prize of $3,000
2nd Place receives a cash prize of $2,000
3rd Place receives a cash prize of $1,000
The essay assignment is to present a view on Energy Transition in the Midstream Industry. The essay may address any aspect of energy transition and its impact or relevance to the midstream industry, including, but not limited to the following topics:
- corporate structure
- corporate finance
- corporate behavior
- financial
- capital markets
- assets
- acquisition and divestment
- operations
- maintenance
- data acquisition and/or management
- engineering
- political dynamics
- government policy
- government regulation
- societal desires and/or needs
- history
- ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance)
- human capital
- supply chain
- permitting
- intrastate issues
- interstate issues
- domestic or international issues
These topics are quite broad and the hope is to not only expose students of many degree programs to the midstream industry, but to also find and highlight some really interesting perspectives from tomorrow's leaders.