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Drillers have a special talent for grabbing what’s on hand and innovating to get the job done. Such is the case with Hefty Drilling in Anchorage, Alaska.

We spend a lot of time in this space doling out advice on how contractors can do their jobs better. Now I want to flip the script and hear from readers: What advice do you have for us?

Just after the National Ground Water Association’s Groundwater Week 2019 event in Las Vegas, Astec Industries Inc. announced plans to sell Enid, Oklahoma-based Gefco Inc.

It’s a new year and a new decade, so let’s welcome 2020 with resolutions to become 21st century drillers and drilling companies.

Any operations start-up has a degree of risk associated with the first time it is done at the rig site.

In Vancouver, British Columbia, rated the third best city in the world for quality of living in 2019 by Mercer Consulting, one thing is very clear: Geothermal has a lot of fans.

Host Brock Yordy throws it in reverse for the latest Ask Brock, episode 38.

Urban Foundation/Engineering was using two state-of-the-art Bauer BG drilling rigs from Equipment Corporation of America (ECA) to literally conquer an underground boulder field in preparation for a 25-story residential building known as 18 Sixth Avenue.

Polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) bits have been around for years. Now, they are just getting popular in the water well industry.

As drilling professionals, we should encourage consistently safe behaviors from all drill crew members, tool pushers, foremen and even the company owner. One of the most effective ways to do this is to lead by example.