In the past, compressed air and various drilling fluids have been used as circulating media while drilling through earth embankments and their foundations. Although these methods have been used successfully, there have been many incidents of damage to embankments and foundations …
The Antarctic Geological Drilling Program recently drilled to a new record depth of 3,300 feet below the seafloor from the site on the Ross Ice Shelf near Scott Base in Antarctica. The recovered core provides geological data from the present day to about 10 million years ago.
Sorry I missed my deadline last month, folks; I had more on my plate than I could say grace over! I started the month with what I had planned to be a short road trip ...
A Master Ground Water Contractor (MGWC), known today as a “Green Jacket,” is a person who has met certain requirements and passed all of the National Ground Water Association certification examinations on drilling and pumps, as well as the Master certification examination ...
There are three factors that go into determining the pressure required from a pump in a residential water system – lift pressure, household pressure and friction loss.
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a comprehensive new study of the potential for geothermal energy within the United States has found that mining the huge amounts of heat that reside as stored thermal energy in the Earth’s hard rock crust could supply a substantial portion of the country’s future electricity needs.
A specially designed hybrid microhole coiled tubing rig recently concluded the drilling of 25 test wells to penetrate a particularly intractable natural gas formation called the Niobrara in western Kansas and eastern Colorado. The effort delivered cost savings of 25 percent to 35 percent per well drilled.
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