With
the 2012 National Ground Water Association (NGWA) Groundwater Expo set for Dec.
4-7 in Las Vegas, I have decided to write a few thoughts about previous NGWA
conventions that I have attended.
Walt Gomolka, of Sano Drilling in Pennsylvania, conducts coring for coal exploration to depths of 1,500 feet, using NQ wireline with a Mobile Drill B37.
Las Vegas - The 64th National Ground Water Association (NGWA) Expo and Annual Meeting, the industry’s largest gathering of groundwater professionals, kicked off today in the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Members
of GeoShack North America attended
MC-Xperience San Antonio where Topcon Positioning Systems presented the Annual
Dealer Awards highlighting their most successful dealers.
Drilling water wells at Camp Lemonnier, a United
States Naval Expeditionary Base, situated at Djibouti International Airport in
northeast Africa, and home to the Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa of
the U.S. Africa Command.
The first bite of a $106 million drilling
project to stabilize the earthen portion of the Center Hill Dam with a barrier
wall recently was taken by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District
and its contractor, Bauer Foundation Corp., as the auger of a giant drill rig
turned up the first dirt to the cheers of spectators.
Santa Fe Petroleum Inc. reported this week good progress on its fracking/completion test well in central Texas. Chairman Tom Griffin said "our test well project is progressing as expected. We
The Deadline is 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, for the Federal Highway Administration’s subsurface investigation qualification course. The course, taught by National Highway Institute-approved instructors, is intended for drillers, drilling
TEI Rock Drills hosted its 2012 Open House in Montrose, Colo., from Oct. 9-11 with about 45 attendees from Australia, South Korea, the Cayman Islands, Mexico, Canada and the United
TEI Rock Drills, of Montrose, Colo., recently received a patent from the South African government for the internal dampening system in its hydraulic drifters. The patent was awarded to Bill
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