Investors & Entrepreneurs
INDUSTRIAL AFFILIATES PROGRAMS
Industrial Affiliates Programs provide a unique opportunity for the private sector to partner with UT researchers to explore research topics of mutual interest. Companies who join these programs gain access to state-of-the-art research facilities, world-class university talent, and any data and publications shared among members in exchange for an annual membership fee. Because Industrial Affiliates Programs are dedicated to fundamental, early-stage research, members can engage with the university’s research programs, students, and faculty without paying institutional indirect costs or overhead.
For more information on joining or establishing an Industrial Affiliates Program, contact our Licensing and Collaborative Research team.
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Applied Geodynamics Laboratory
Energy – Reservoir Siesmology
Applied Geodynamics Laboratory (AGL) is an industry-funded consortium dedicated to producing innovative concepts in salt tectonics and mobile-shale tectonics. Research comprises a mix of physical and mathematical modeling; seismic- and field-based mapping; and structural-stratigraphic analysis of some of the world’s most spectacular basins involving mobile substrates— including those of the Gulf of Mexico, West Africa, Brazil, the Mediterranean, and the Canadian High Arctic.
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Science & Technology Affiliates for Research
Computing & Automation
The Science & Technology Affiliates for Research (STAR) program offers opportunities for companies to leverage Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) capabilities and resources to gain a competitive advantage in the 21st century economy. The STAR program promotes mutually beneficial exchange between industry and academia in advanced computing technologies, while fostering innovation and supporting economic development in the state of Texas and across the nation. To achieve these goals, the STAR program supports high-risk/high-gain research, helping companies of all sizes to develop new approaches to solving problems. Affiliates have access to the latest technologies and best-practices in high-end computing, visualization, data analysis, machine learning and artificial intelligence, storage, networking, and applications. They receive expert support and training in using these technologies; and are offered opportunities for joint academic/industrial research.
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Gas Enhanced Oil Recovery
Energy – Enhanced Oil Recovery
Gas Enhanced Oil Recovery (GEOR) conducts mechanistic research to improve oil recovery in conventional and unconventional reservoirs by gas injection.
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Gulf of Mexico Basin Depositional Synthesis Project
Energy – Reservoir Geophysics
The Gulf of Mexico Basin Depositional Synthesis Project (GBDS) is a continuing industry-supported project that studies the Cenozoic and Mesozoic fill in the Gulf of Mexico. The goal of GBDS is to construct and maintain a detailed, comprehensive and integrated synthesis of the depositional history of the Gulf basin. GBDS has defined and mapped a gulf-wide Mesozoic and Cenozoic stratigraphic framework that provides its members context for regional play definition, deep slope and basin reservoir prediction, lease evaluation, and shelf carbon storage site evaluation. Well and seismic reflection correlations between continental margin and deep basin stratigraphies which allows for the investigation of paleogeography, source to sink sediment routing, and the spatial/temporal distribution of highest quality reservoir, source and seal rock. The project makes effective use of well logs, 2D and 3D seismic data, detrital zircon geothermochronology, subsurface pressure data, detailed sedimentological descriptions, and source rock analyses.
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