"In the 1960s, my dad and I were drilling oil wells in southeastern Kansas. Drilling was much simpler then – one rig, a water truck and maybe a pickup. Many times when we were drilling a long distance from our base of Chanute, Kan., we would take our motorhome that Bess and I built from a Metro Milk truck."
"The amazing shale plays in the United States, and increasingly, the rest of the world are not new. As drillers, we have known about the Marcellus, the Braken and the Barnett Shales, as well as others, for many years."
"In most jobs, the professional actually sees what he’s working on. The carpenter sees the nail he’s hitting, the truck driver sees the road ahead, and the doctor sees the spleen he’s venting, but as drillers, we have it a little harder."
Sizing a residential water system involves several considerations. Once you know the needed information, you can determine which type of pump best serves your application. Then, once you have determined which type of pump to use, you need to size the pump.
When it comes to drilling fluids for horizontal directional drilling and vertical drilling, such as geothermal loop installation or water well drilling, there are a lot of similarities. Yet, despite the similarities, there are some important differences between the two that drilling contractors must understand in order to maximize their success rate.
"From the smallest house well jobs, to the most technically challenging deep water oil wells, attention to detail has made the difference between success and failure."
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