'Every Driller has a Story': Jeff Garby of Alucast Inc.
Jeff Garby has worked closely with drilling companies around the globe. He’s now president of Alucast Inc. in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a custom manhole and well cover manufacturer, but he’s served the drilling and environmental industries for years. Episode 9 of Drilling In-Site gets into Garby’s perspective on well protection, social media and the future of drilling.
“Well protection will mitigate consequence,” Garby says. “So what it means is, you are working extremely hard making a great well — a water well, a monitoring well, a gas well, it doesn't matter. … If you have a crappy manhole cover, surface contamination will roll in, come inside and contaminate your well, change the water levels, change the groundwater data that you're receiving. It’s a huge problem. You have got to have great well protection today and, not only that, you got to install it correctly.”