This week, host Brock Yordy helps you head off sticky clay and shale issues. It’s Ask Brock 215.

Columnist goes to drought-parched Monterrey, Mexico, to train drillers in fluids, air drilling and foam drilling.

Host Brock Yordy goes back to fundamentals with tips for heading off plugged bits. It’s Ask Brock 211.

You bid and won that big project, but now need a drilling waste disposal plan. Start here. It’s Ask Brock 209.

In reactive soils, operators risk stuck tools or strings if they don’t take a tactical approach to their drilling fluids.

The secret ingredient to mixing up the best mud for your drilling job? Time. It’s Ask Brock 206.

Bidding big contracts? From PVC to screens, make sure you get not only the best price, but the best materials.

Often, the answer is “It depends.” Ask Brock lays out the factors for mud rotary drillers to consider.

Legal expert Jesse Richardson says new “waters of the U.S.” definition still raises plenty of questions.

From the right pH to precipitating out hardness, soda ash is hard to beat for pretreating make-up water.