The editor of The Driller, Mr. Jeremy Verdusco, gives us column writers wide latitude in choice of subjects. This article was going to be about the marriage of my granddaughter, Samantha, to a fellow named Trevor, a second lieutenant in the Army Reserve, the event to take place in four days.
A capable trainer makes the difference between a student retaining and applying what he learns, and wasting the money a company spends to send him for training in the first place. Goulds Water Technology, a Xylem brand, has offered training for years.
I have stated that drilling is 80 percent knowledge and 20 percent luck. Bad luck happens when a driller encounters a loss zone, thus preventing the driller from finishing the hole.
For much of the drilling industry, continuing education is nothing more than a requirement that is more dreaded than anticipated and more boring than fun.