As another drilling season comes to an end and we travel to the Groundwater Week event Dec. 3-5 in Las Vegas, take time to consider how you want to improve in 2020.
I like to reflect on the projects that my team executed superbly and plan to reproduce that success the following year. I also find time to deconstruct the projects that kicked my butt and research solutions to prevent failure in the future. I start my research with the industry standard book “Groundwater & Wells” and move on to the “Hydrogeology Field Manual.” I follow these with the “Australian Drilling Manual,” then the “Drilling Fluids Processing Handbook” and Halliburton’s Red Book. If I can’t find what I require in book form, I dive deep into industry articles and columns searching for new concepts and sound advice. This year I added “The Art of Water Wells” by Marvin Glotfelty, RG, as a go-to resource.