Enteq Upstream, which offers systems for measurement while drilling (MWD) and directional drilling, has merged its Extended Exploration Technology (XXT) and KM Services (KMS) units into a new Enteq Drilling division.
Vermeer unveiled its D220x300 Navigator horizontal directional drill at the recent 2013 International Construction & Utility Equipment Exposition in Kentucky.
In the 1950s, I was involved in oil drilling gas in southeastern Kansas. Much of the free-flowing, 28 gravity (thick) oil had diminished to one to three barrels per day. Hence came secondary recovery!
Rich Maxwell warns that if you think "enlarging the hole" is all that back reaming is about, you are missing several important functions of back reaming.