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Thirty five petroleum engineering undergraduates went to camp in Duncan Oklahoma
earlier this month. This wasn't an ordinary camp, Camp Bevo II, held at the
Halliburton Training Center gave these students the opportunity to visit
wellsites, and observe how field operations work first hand. The result was a
group of students who seemed to agree that they had learned more about
petroleum engineering by being at Camp than during their first two years of
class work. Invitations to the camp are earned by students at
the top of their class; the first camp was held in August, 2005 and the next
camp is scheduled for August of this year.
The concept of Camp Bevo was proposed to Halliburton by the PGE department and UT alumnus,
Don Sparks. Duncan's Training Center Manager, J.J. Jennings, explained Halliburton's positive response to their proposal
with the remark that Camp Bevo is "a win-win situation for both the University of Texas and for Halliburton. The way we
see it, we are helping to train people who might be our customers in the future." Additional help was provided by Marathon
Oil which supplied the wellsites which students visited during the camp.
Jennings' advice to the departing students was as to the
point as the rest of the week, "Be more than a one-trick pony. The more you learn,
the more valuable you'll be as an employee. And stay curious."
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PGE students are introduced to frac
fluid testing in
Halliburton’s Technology Center.
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