Art Becker, CPG, MGWC, graduated from Rutgers University in 1972 with a degree in geology. His first job was with a family-owned drilling business in New Jersey. They needed someone to explain municipal and industrial well project plans to planning boards. He went on to start his own environmental drilling business in New Jersey in 1985, Environmental Drilling Inc. (EDI). He sold it to SGS North America Inc. in 1991 and continued operating the environmental drilling division of the company until 2014.
Becker considers himself semi-retired now, but says he has no plans to officially leave the industry any time soon. To stay active, he founded Drilling and Safety Consultants LLC, a one-person company that holds an exclusive consulting agreement with the environmental drilling division of SGS. He offers administrative, operational and business services, bidding on large drilling projects in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.