In
mid-July, President Bush lifted the Executive Withdrawal on oil and gas leasing
operations on the Outer Continental Shelf, calling on Congress to lift its ban
that has been in place since 1982
Holocene Drilling Inc., Tacoma, Wash., recently completed a boring project for Tacoma Rail’s Mountain Division at a crossing on the Nisqually River near Mt. Rainier National Park.
Project West Wind is a wind farm development just off Oteranga Bay in New Zealand. For this project, Griffiths Drilling Ltd. had difficult terrain to contend with, as well as very fractured rock, due to the close proximity to major fault lines. Compounding this were the very high winds and extreme weather conditions in which the crews were operating.