CSMC at the EPRI and NOV Quantum Sensor Workshop
May 19th, 2026
Canada's Quantum Frontier Comes to Houston: How CSMC's presence at the EPRI–NOV Quantum Sensor Workshop signals the company's growing influence at the intersection of quantum sensing and global energy.
This month, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and NOV convened their Quantum Sensor Workshop in Houston, bringing together operators, researchers, and technology developers around one question: where can quantum sensing deliver operational value today? CSMC's COO Adam Gryfe was among the delegates; A reflection of the company's established position at the frontier of applied quantum sensing and its deepening relevance to the global energy sector.
EPRI has been expanding its quantum portfolio steadily, and the workshop extended that work into the physical sensing domain, where quantum gravimeters, magnetometers, and inertial sensors stand to transform everything from pipeline monitoring to subsurface resource mapping. For CSMC, whose QASM platform is already under contract with the Luxembourg Space Agency and directly addresses subsurface sensing challenges, the conversation in Houston is one the company is uniquely equipped to lead.
CSMC operates through two subsidiaries: CSMC Nuclear, developing the LEUNR portable micro-nuclear reactor for Canadian defence, remote communities, and the lunar surface; and CSMC Labs, its R&D division advancing quantum sensors, robotics, and space systems — and the home of the QASM program.
QASM: The Program That Won Over Europe
QASM, the Quantum Anomaly Subsurface Mapper, is CSMC's flagship quantum sensing program and the technology that connects the company most directly to the energy sector's pressing subsurface intelligence needs. At its core, QASM is a space-based quantum gravimetry platform that uses cold-atom interferometry to achieve ultra-sensitive measurements of gravitational fields. Clouds of atoms are cooled to near absolute zero and subjected to laser pulses that place them into quantum superposition, allowing the device to detect gravitational variations with sensitivity far beyond any conventional instrument. The result is a sensor capable of producing rich, three-dimensional tomographic maps of what lies beneath the surface: critical minerals, water reservoirs, hydrocarbon formations, and geological structures.
QASM's development spans several years. In 2023, CSMC received funding from the Ontario Water Consortium to refine QASM models for groundwater detection, targeting a satellite launch by 2028. The platform has since grown substantially more ambitious. In November 2025, the Luxembourg Space Agency, in partnership with the European Space Agency, awarded CSMC a formal contract to develop and demonstrate QASM as a full dual-use sensing platform. The same cold-atom interferometry that maps water ice on the lunar surface can, with equal precision, characterize oil and gas reservoirs, monitor carbon storage integrity, or guides critical mineral extraction programs on Earth. Early laboratory demonstrations are scheduled for 2026, followed by field testing and an orbital demonstration mission.
As CSMC CEO Daniel Sax has put it: "Quantum sensors like QASM will redefine how we can more intelligently meet society's resource needs." In Houston, that redefinition moved one step closer to the field.