Mike Truby
Mike is Chief Operations Officer at Edgewater Midstream and a seasoned midstream executive with over thirty years of experience. Prior to co-founding Edgewater, Mike worked at NuStar Energy, LP, where he managed more than 1,100 employees and 300 contractors in operations, engineering, and safety. Under his leadership, over 85% of Nustar’s pipeline and terminal work sites achieved OSHA VPP Star certifications, and NuStar earned ILTA’s safety excellence award ten times. In 2019, Mike’s final year at NuStar, the total recordable injury rate was 0.13, or 6.5x and 21.5x better than BLS averages for the pipeline transportation and bulk terminals industries, respectively.
Mike also led reliability and strategic capital growth programs consisting of over 300 projects with an annual capital budget of $600 million. He was directly responsible for operations of NuStar’s large-scale pipeline and multi-product, multimodal terminal facilities; over 9,900 miles of pipelines and 77 terminals with throughput of 1.75 Mbd and 73 Mbl of storage capacity.
Mike holds a BSME and a Masters of Engineering from Texas Tech University. He also served on the UTSA College of Engineering advisory board with where he promoted project management education.