National Driller recently wrote about about Max’s Enterprises, a Kansas company that offers auger cleaners for geotechnical and environmental drillers. Shortly after posting that, I got a call from David Hunziker, Max’s lead driller, who let me know about some of the company’s other custom tooling. He had a lot to say about the company’s “rigless” abandonment unit.
“As a drilling contractor myself, I saw a great future in monitor well abandonment because we were putting in wells and very few were coming out,” Hunziker said. “There was no easy way to remove them, and I knew how important it is to remove a conduit that would take the contamination straight to the water table.”