Articles Tagged with ''well drilling''

From tailing piles at remote mine sites to a contaminated site in a congested urban district, sonic drilling is becoming the method of choice for a variety of challenges.

A mobile generator is often the most important piece of equipment on a drilling site — after all, it’s what keeps the operation running.

Let’s talk for a minute about licensing. As the editor of a voice in the industry, it’s important for me to be informed about my readers’ experiences.

I don’t remember learning to drive.

Most drillers, large and small, drill irrigation wells, and like many other fields of drilling, the market can be cyclical.

In my last column, I took a short detour from the subject of pitless adapters and wrote about changing a pump the old fashioned way.

When Jennifer Bonner got her start in the water well drilling business, she wasn’t planning to make a career out of it.

What do you look for in a drill rig?

Travis Roberts, vice president of Millstadt, Ill.-based Roberts Environmental Drilling, followed his father into the drilling business after high school. Although his official experience with drilling amounts to 11 years, he’s been around it since childhood.

Over the past 17 years, Tim Mulville, president and CEO of Missouri City, Texas-based non-profit Wells of Hope, has helped bring potable water wells to communities across Mexico and Africa. While each mission was, of course, unique, Kendleton Farms — the site of his latest venture — is especially out of the ordinary, and not because it is just 30 minutes away.