46th Annual Conference

MAY 18 – 21, 2017 – Houston, Texas

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HOUSTON TOUR SITES

The Oil Industry
Texas Energy Museum, Beaumont
Spindletop Gladys City Boomtown, Beaumont
Lockwood International (valves and valve fittings used in oil field service)
Genesis Test Rig at the Schlumberger Sugar Land Technology Center

The Houston Ship Channel
Willow Street Pump Station, University of Houston
Narrated tour of the Houston Ship Channel aboard the M/V Sam Houston
Battleship Texas
Intermarine (logistics and ocean transport)

Work, Water, and Recreation
Lockwood International (valves and valve fittings used in oil field service)
Frost Town Site archeological excavation
Buffalo Bayou Cistern
The Astrodome
Yellow Rose Distilling

Texas Bridges and Concrete
Rainbow Bridge, Beaumont
Trinity River Bridge
An abandoned railroad bascule bridge
Main Street Bridge over Buffalo Bayou
Flexicore of Texas (precast and pre-stressed concrete products)

Additional Tour Sites
NASA Johnson Space Center
Port of Galveston
Tall Ship Elissa
Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig and Museum
Galveston Seawall
Allen’s Landing
The Binz historic neighborhood
Boat tour of Buffalo Bayou

Caption for photos: The forest of oil derricks depicted in both halves of a 1919 panoramic photograph (top and bottom) comprise Goose Creek Oil Field. Goose Creek (now Baytown) is a bayou east of Houston where oil was discovered in the late 1910s. Library of Congress.