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This month's column on recent industry happenings from The Driller's editor.

With a large number of busy, thirsty troops in Iraq, it is not surprising that there is a great demand for vast amounts of fresh bottled drinking water to be shipped to bases across the face of the country.

The bucket rig is a form of the rotary drill rig. It uses mechanical or hydraulic drive to rotate a kelly, which is attached to the bucket.

Sixty years ago this coming year marks the first blast on what, some day, will be one of the world’s largest sculptures, measuring 641 feet long and 563 feet high. Every day, the mountain crew drills, blasts and clears away rock to expose the next layer in South Dakota’s Black Hills.

The proposed Pathfinder project is an approximately 673-mile, 36-inch and 42-inch diameter interstate pipeline that would transport natural gas northeast from Meeker, Colo., through Montana to the Northern Border pipeline system in North Dakota.

Today the production company that started out with a handful of gas leases has become a gem in western Pennsylvania’s gas industry. 

Keeping profits up when the economy is down.

For those who attended the 21st annual International Ground Source Heat Pump Association conference in Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 1-2, news accounts of the energy credits tied to the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 were the best news for the industry in years. 

The Iceland Deep Drilling Project is a consortium formed to investigate the economic feasibility of producing energy and useful substances by drilling down deeper into geothermal systems – down to what are known as “supercritical conditions.”

With winter headed our way, a lot of us are starting to think about maintenance and upgrades during our slow season.