No matter the industry, no two career paths are carved out the same, and for Jim LaPorte, president of Mudslayer Manufacturing, his journey toward a career in drilling began with a unique instance of family misfortune.
When the NASA Space Shuttle Program ended in 2011, Hashem and several thousand others in the Houston area were out of jobs and looking for work. Hashem picked up soil sampling as a way to earn money while looking for a permanent career.
In Ask Brock episode 18, expert trainer and The Driller contributor Brock Yordy discusses the importance of good controls, particularly when it comes to training up-and-coming drillers.
In episode 17 of our Ask Brock video series, expert trainer and The Driller contributor Brock Yordy offers insights on cutting risks associated with rod handling.
The manufacturers in the water conditioning industry had long realized that a successful filter had to get the iron from solution, or invisible, to suspension, or visible, iron. How to do this seemed to baffle everyone for a long time.
After years sharpening his drilling skills elsewhere, Ken Phillips came back home to Gregory Drilling, where he oversees crews working a TerraSonic 150CC crawler.