One of the things we enjoy covering at The Driller is the ingenuity in the drilling industry. Passionate, trained engineers and homegrown tinkerers populate the industry, and help drive everything from high-tech innovations to the MacGyver fixes on site that push jobs to completion.
Scott Dalrymple falls into the former category. He’s the design engineer for MEDATech and product manager for their drilling division, Borterra, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. We brought Dalrymple on episode 25 of Drilling In-Site to talk about a prototype rig his company built for dam remediation work in Alabama, United States. The rig brings together down-the-hole water hammer and sonic technologies, a mashup that allows the driller to switch methods as required to keep holes on target.