TAs part of the field trip, Thru Tubing Solutions, Cudd Pressure Control, and Well Control School will be showcasing equipment and providing lunch. The showcase will be a hands on and detailed demonstration of  equipment used in Salt Cavern Storage Operations. Equipment examples: Capillary Inflatable Packer, Mills, Flow Control Plug, Wellhead Freeze, Casing Cutter, Hot Tap, Gate Valve Drillout, Well Control Equipment, Well Control School, PRIME, and other services provided under the RPC, Inc. umbrella. Operators will have the opportunity to see equipment that they don't usually see in their daily operations. Each company will provide brochures, QR codes, and videos of the equipment on site.

The maximum capacity for this trip is 50. The $90.00 cost is all-inclusive of transportation to/from the hotel, the guided tour, breakfast and lunch. The field trip time is anticipated to be 7:30AM - 5:00PM.

The morning will start in Strataca with a guided tour through the Permian Room into the museum galleries including exhibits, movie costumes and props, and the original mining equipment used by the Carey Salt Company. The tour will also include a 30-minute dark ride explaining the challenges and unique solutions required to keep the mines safe and functional, and a 15-minute train ride reviewing the processes and tools used to clear out the 980 acres of excavated rock. After lunch in the museum, Hutchinson Salt Co. will provide a guided tour of the active section of the mine. The day will wrap up with a visit to the Underground Vaults & Storage section of the mine. UV&S leased the use of the mined-out areas for 100 years in 1959 and is most known for its storage of fine-grain negatives of Hollywood films. The company also stores government documents, museum artifacts, historical documents and much more.

The maximum capacity for this trip is 50. The $90.00 cost is all-inclusive of transportation to/from the hotel, the guided tour, breakfast, and lunch. The field trip time is anticipated to be 7:45AM - 5PM.

EWE GASSPEICHER GmbH is one of the largest storage operators in the Germany and Europe. A capacity of around 2 billion cubic meters of working gas is stored at four facilities in Huntorf, Nüttermoor, Jemgum and Rüdersdorf. Part of the the field trip will be a visit of the cavern storage facility at Huntorf where EWE is operating 7 gas storage caverns. EWE is planning to convert one cavern for hydrogen storage in the next years. The Huntorf power plant is a combined compressed air energy storage and gas turbine power plant operated by Uniper Kraftwerke. When it was commissioned in 1978, the power plant was the first commercially used compressed air energy storage in the world. The compressed air for operation of the power plant is stored in 2 nearby salt caverns.

The maximum capacity for this trip is 30, so register early. The $90.00 cost is all-inclusive of transportation to/from the hotel, the guided tours, and lunch. The field trip time is anticipated to be 8AM - 5PM.