I have a soft spot for human achievement. We engineer, drill and tunnel ourselves out of some of the hardest problems imaginable. This month, we write about a project that installed a pipeline for brine under the Mississippi River. Think about that: In Louisiana, the river averages about a mile across. Drillers did that—with horizontal directional rigs, to be specific.
I’ll discuss it more in a minute, but want to mention a couple of other interesting projects.