“He just had a mind that would never quit when it came to the design of drilling rigs,” says Mark Laibe, chairman of Laibe Corporation, remembering Carl Back, who passed away on June 9 at age 91.
Be it vertical rotary mud drilling, horizontal directional drilling or foundation drilling, one commonly overlooked factor in maintaining borehole stability is hydrostatic head pressure.
In late January, Tim Mulville, president and CEO of Missouri City, Texas-based non-profit Wells of Hope, contacted The Driller about the need of a nearby missionary organization he’s grown well acquainted with through the church he attends.
