2016 Writing Intensive Camp

We completed our fourth successful winter intercession field camp in December. We welcomed back Dennis Moore (Baker Hughes), Randy Bissell (Heddington Oil), Lonnie Blake (Senior geologist with Everest Resources Company), Neal Kunkle (alumnus) (geologist with UEC), Bob Underdown (engineer with UEC), Mike Gisler (Gisler Brothers Logging), Vernon Kramer (Del Mar), Dan Jackson (TAMUK), Thomas McGehee (TAMUK), Monica Estrada (Teaching Assistant), Sarah Dillon (Teaching Assistant) and Sylvia Gatewood (Administrative Assistant) are the faculty and support team for this camp. Dennis Moore gave a brief short course on geophysical log interpretation with a required student exercise. Randy Bissell gave a brief overview of sequence stratigraphy and how the interpretation of seismic data yields petroleum discoveries. Randy demonstrated how this is done, then has the students work through an exercise. Vernon Kramer gave an overview of Uranium Company exploration for roll fronts and had the students complete an exercise to find a uranium roll front.

Bob Underdown and Neal Kunkle showed our majors a well field at the UEC Palangana Dome Project and discussed some of the problems with these discoveries. Mike Gisler gave an overview of the employee activities in the mud-logging business. We visited a site where they are fracking an unconventional well. We traveled out to an offshore drilling platform construction site. Lonnie Blake gave an introduction to geophysics and provided an overview of data-driven decision making in the life of a petroleum geologist. Vernon Kramer provided overviews of the fracking project and offshore drilling. Dan Jackson took our majors over to the Corpus Christi log library to learn how to gather data for prospects. After we received their first good draft our faculty and the TAMUK Writing Intensive Center recommended changes to complete the polished report.

2014 Writing Intensive Camp

We completed our third successful winter intercession field camp in December. This year we had a few new speakers and projects added to the activities that included Lonnie Blake, a senior geologist with Everest Resources Company, Neal Kunkle, (alumnus) a geologist with UEC, and Bob Underdown, an engineer with UEC. We welcomed back Dennis Moore (Baker Hughes), Randy Bissell (Heddington Oil), and Mike Gisler (Gisler Brothers Logging). Vernon Kramer (Del Mar), Dan Jackson (TAMUK), Thomas McGehee (TAMUK), Amber Conner and Sylvia Gatewood were the faculty and support team for this camp.

This field camp received great support from a large cross section of south Texas industry professionals. Dennis Moore gave a brief short course on geophysical log interpretation with a required student exercise. Randy Bissell gave a brief overview of sequence stratigraphy and how the interpretation of seismic data yields petroleum discoveries. Randy demonstrated how this is done then had the students work through an exercise. Vernon Kramer gave an overview of uranium company exploration for roll fronts and had the students complete an exercise to find a uranium roll front deposit. Bob Underdown and Neal Kunkle showed our majors a well field at the UEC Palangana Dome Project and discussed some of the problems with these discoveries. Mike Gisler gave an overview of the employee activities in the mudlogging business. We visited a site where they are fracking an unconventional well. We traveled out to an offshore drilling platform construction site. Lonnie Blake gave an introduction to geophysics and provided an overview of data-driven decision making in the life of a petroleum geologist. Vernon Kramer provided overviews of the fracking project and offshore drilling. Dan Jackson took our majors over to the Corpus Christi log library to learn how to gather data for prospects. Students submitted a complete first draft of a report to our editing staff (Amber Conner) who recommended changes to complete a polished report on activities from the week.