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Horizontal directional drilling, like any type of drilling, has inherent safety risks that must be mitigated.

Drillers have a special talent for grabbing what’s on hand and innovating to get the job done. Such is the case with Hefty Drilling in Anchorage, Alaska.

Just after the National Ground Water Association’s Groundwater Week 2019 event in Las Vegas, Astec Industries Inc. announced plans to sell Enid, Oklahoma-based Gefco Inc.

In Vancouver, British Columbia, rated the third best city in the world for quality of living in 2019 by Mercer Consulting, one thing is very clear: Geothermal has a lot of fans.

Urban Foundation/Engineering was using two state-of-the-art Bauer BG drilling rigs from Equipment Corporation of America (ECA) to literally conquer an underground boulder field in preparation for a 25-story residential building known as 18 Sixth Avenue.

Polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) bits have been around for years. Now, they are just getting popular in the water well industry.

I’m going to write about a really, really old drill rig — the first one I had any experience with. But first, I want to give readers a bit of family history about how my father and then I got involved in the well drilling and pump industry.

I saw a new drill pipe advertised designed to enable operators to reduce drilling time and be more fuel efficient.

Several months ago, one of my readers sent me an email asking about the details of a pipe-pulling device I used to replace a pump in December 2015.

Reading the signs that the bit sends you becomes crucial to telling what you are drilling in, and how to treat the bit.