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We hear a lot of drilling companies are busy. Don’t overlook downtime for you and your crews.

Human cost of an unsafe trench outweighs the expense of proper safety measures.

Whether your team drills holes or supports those who do, the formation phase sets the purpose and direction.

Recruiting anyone for drilling work has challenges. The right approach can attract a wider range of good candidates.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently announced that 22 workers died in trench-related deaths in the first six months of 2022, easily topping 15 for all of 2021.

Columnist John Schmitt builds on his cable-tool string discussion. This month, he talks about methods to pull casing.

Running heavy equipment like drill rigs, or managing those who do, requires composure under pressure. 

Operators can calculate a rough time per rod once they know per-foot volume for the bore and pump speed.

Whether you’re driving or drilling, Cooper’s code tells us multitasking makes us less safe.

Drilling, construction employers facing a skilled-labor shortage have many ways to network with candidates.