Articles Tagged with ''well drilling''

I have stated that drilling is 80 percent knowledge and 20 percent luck. Bad luck happens when a driller encounters a loss zone, thus preventing the driller from finishing the hole.

Lots of companies talk about safety. But, when companies are ready to listen, they can go to an event like the National Drilling Association’s recent convention outside Baltimore, and hear from an expert like Chuck Valenta of Terracon.

If you’ve ever done anything stupid — I mean really stupid — raise your hand.

In my travels I find that many businesses today are owned by a person or persons that know nothing about the business they own. Some own several businesses and in many cases these people attempt to micromanage a business that they know nothing about.

Got a call from a driller I had met on Facebook, and we had discussed jobs for quite a while. He said he had an irrigation well that was pumping sand, and had been doing it for a while.

In a past column, we provided a general overview of horizontal wells and their uses for environmental remediation applications. Now it’s time to get a little more detailed.

As I wrote in my last column, the pitless adapter is a rather simple but important device used to complete a modern well. All of these have a way of keeping pumped water below the freezing point or frost line.

If anyone gets around, it’s Gary Sprowls, MGWC, a drilling supervisor at Jackson Geothermal, based in Mansfield, Ohio. Sprowls oversees commercial geothermal closed loop jobs in states including, but not limited to Ohio, Missouri, Alabama, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York and Kentucky.

George Bailey, vice president of Industrial Test Systems Inc., is very familiar with water quality testing and the significance it holds. Just because private water sources aren’t regulated the way public sources are doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be tested regularly and proficiently.