We left UND on Friday morning, and we
drove out to Tioga, North Dakota.
We visited Neset Consulting, and we went to
three different oil sites. We got to see
a cleanup site, and a production site, and
a completion site, where their fracking
into the oil. We also went to a
drilling rig, where they're actually like
boring a whole two miles into the earth
and two miles across. And then after that
in the evening, we got to hike
around and look at some really cool
fossils and in Theodore Roosevelt Park.
It's a chance for them to get out and
learn by seeing and touching, and not
just through a textbook. it was a lot
more hands-on than I expected. We
just went out and we looked. If
somebody had a question, she's like "Oh
yeah, this is exactly what that is."
We got to actually go out to the oil fields
and like look at the drilling rigs and
check out the actual graphs and
stuff the geologist are using.
It was more hands-on than I
was expecting.
Just by hiking and being out in nature, you're observing it all around.
You just want to kind of tell people,
like, you're actually watching geology
every single day when you're out there.
We actually got funding from the North
Dakota Industrial Commission to do
this trip. It was totally completely 100%
free for me. They provided the food. They
provided the transportation. Like I
didn't need to worry about anything besides
bringing myself and my
sleeping bag. The funding that we
received lasts for two years. So next year
we're doing a similar trip. It was
super nice to just be able to pack up my
stuff, throw it in the van, and just to go.
We could just
set up and have an adventure.
I had way too much fun.
