News and Events

2025 SPE ATCE participants
2025 SPE ATCE Alumni Reception

What an unforgettable evening at The Rustic in Houston!

AADE Field Trip participants
AADE Field Trip

Thank you AADE Permian Basin for hosting our student field trip on Feb 2020

Exploration Day participants
Exploration Day Brings Future Petroleum Engineers to Campus!

The Petroleum Engineering Department welcomed prospective students and their families during NMT’s Exploration Day on October 25, 2025!

Well Control Course participants
Well Control Course

Our students have completed the Fundamentals of Well Control course provided by Wild WellControl.

MSEC 367 Classrom with students and professor
Thank you for your donation to MSEC 367

Because of your generosity, our petroleum engineering students at New Mexico Tech continue to benefit from abundant opportunities to learn, grow, and excel. We are sincerely grateful for your recent donation to have additional electronics installed in our MSEC 367 multi-purpose classroom.

UMat Visit participants
UMat Visit

Our department worked with the delegation from University of Mines and Technology (UMaT) - Ghana

SPE Paper Contestants
SPE Paper Contest

On Friday March 6, 2020 we held our in-house paper contest. We had 11 contestants, and we want to give a big round of applause to all who presented!

Edgard Parra
Petroleum Student Wins Research Award

Petroleum Student Wins Research Award!

Invitation to the Alumni Reception
2025 SPE ATCE Houston

Alumni Reception! Join Us at The Rustic in Houston!

SPE ATCE Houston Participants
2025 SPE ATCE Alumni Reception

Our SPE ATCE Alumni Reception was filled with laughter, memories, and great conversations as alumni, students, and faculty from the Petroleum Engineering Department at NMT gathered to reconnect and share stories.

faculty holding the big donation check
AADE Donation

The AADE Permian Basin Chapter has donated $50,444.79 to the NMT's Petroleum Department to fund the remodel of MSEC 367.

Geothermal
Interview with New Mexico Political Report on NMT’s New Geothermal Certificate!

April 8, 2025

The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology will launch a graduate certificate in geothermal energy this fall.

Wild Well Control Training 2020 Participants
WWC 2020 - Wild Well Control Training 2020

May 1, 2020

More than 20 petroleum students took the Wild Well Control training class this year March 7-8.

Field Trip - Midland TX - November 2018
Best Petroleum Engineering Degree Programs

November 20, 2018

Petroleum Engineering at NMT was ranked as the Best Petroleum Engineering Degree Programs among other Petroleum Engineering Schools in the U.S.

nmt logo
2018 Senior Design Presentations

November 19, 2018

Senior Design presentations to be held on Thursday, December 6th from 3 to 5:30 pm in MSEC 105.

AADE students
NMT's AADE Recent Field Trip to Midland, Texas

October 19, 2018

Our AADE student chapter has just completed a field trip in Midland, TX. The field trip was hosted by Chevron and 100% sponsored by the AADE Permian Basin Parent Chapter. Also Thanks to Fasken Oil and Ranch for hosting the drilling rig tour. 

SPE Student Chapter
NMT SPE Has Won Outstanding Student Chapter!

September 26, 2018

For the second year in a row, New Mexico Tech SPE Student chapter has won the SPE outstanding student chapter. 

Jennifer Julian
Two Techies Honored by the Society of Petroleum Engineering

September 24, 2018

Congratulations to Jennifer Julian and Dr. Stefan Miska who are receiving awards from SPE this year.