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Petroleum Field Camp
Three Semester Credits
July 11 - 27, 2027
Rapid City, SD
July 12, 2027 8:00AM
Meet in Nucor Mineral Industries Building, SDSM&T
July 27, 2027
$3,995.00
$4,395.00
$300 is due at registration
December 31, 2026
Limited to 20 students
Three or four nights of camping
$3995.00 undergraduate and $4,395.00 graduate. Cost includes tuition, fees, food, lodging and daily transportation to the sites. Three or four nights of camping. Bring tent and sleeping arrangement. Cost does not include airfare to Rapid City. Each session limited to 20 students. $300 required upon registration.
July 11, 2026 – Check into SDSM&T Dormitory. July 12, 8:00 AM – Meet in Nucor Mineral Industries Building, SDSM&T.
July 27 -students leave. There will be service to the airport in the morning.
Petroleum Field camp is a three credit field course that provides students with an intense oilfield applications experience. The course is designed to enhance education and training for science and engineering students with career interests in oil and gas industry. It is an introductory level field course designed for all science and engineering majors.
This course will cover geologic and geophysical description of basins, geologic maps, isopach maps, geologic cross sections, and geophysical parameters of oil basins including well logs and modeling software such as Petrel. We will also cover reservoir types / descriptions, fracking techniques and fracture types, fractured reservoirs and porosity and permeability.
Students will visit drill sites in Williston and /or Denver Basins to observe site preparation, drilling, fracking and well competion. They will also experience production practices which include types of hydrocarbons; pumping, transporting and storing oil and gas; water and produced water use, treatment and disposal; separating oil and water; environmental problems associated with drilling; and oil and gas economics.
Lodging will be SDSM&T dormitory while in Rapid City area. Bring camping gear (tent, sleeping bag, pillow etc.), bedding sheets for single bed, pillowcase, towels, blanket etc. Four to five nights of camping in Colorado, Wyoming or North Dakota).
Dr. Nuri Uzunlar, Director, Black Hills Natural Sciences Field Station
Professor, Geology and Geological Engineering Department
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Office Phone: (605) 394 – 2494 ; Cell: (605) 431-1275
