Drillers @Work: Spring 2016
Drilling contractors find themselves in the field far more often than most. Rig-up, rig-down, there are always memorable views worth sharing. Our Drillers @Work gallery for Spring 2016 showcases photos submitted by readers from March – May, 2016.
Jacob Domer, a fourth generation well driller, air-develops 4-inch gravel-pack well he drilled on a ranch to supply water to cattle in Okeechobee, Fla.
Source: Domer's
Gauthier Well Drilling finishes up their latest job in South Mountain, Ontario.
Source: Gauthier Well Drilling
Quarry drilling at sunrise with an IR DM30 in Demorestville, Ontario.
Source: Andrew Hawks/Amos Excavation and Construction
A drilling rig at work in Colombia.
Source: Martelo Claudia/Giese Pozos
Drilling a well for a retirement apartment complex in Wasilla, Alaska.
Source: Kaleb Bean/E&D Water Wells
Drilling in the woods outside Wasilla, Alaska, for a residential well.
Source: Kaleb Bean/E&D Water Wells
Drilling a well for the city of Wasilla, Alaska.
Source: Kaleb Bean/E&D Water Wells
Drilling monitoring wells for investigation of a chlorinated solvent release in Richmond, Va. Driller and crew from Fishburne Drilling, Chesapeake, Va.
Source: Dennis Papa/dpSTUDIO environmental consulting & design
Drilling through a bridge deck for interior bents for bridge replacement in Stokes County, N.C.
Source: Jason Cain/HPC Land Services
Northwest Soil Stabilization (NW Soil) crew members use a TEI excavator mast and TE560 top hammer drifter to install the more than 250 soil nails for a shotcrete wall system in Duvall, Wash.
Source: Northwest Soil Stabilization Inc.
Hydro Construction workers prepare to lower a cleaned pump back into the borehole on a water well drilling job in Sendafa, Ethiopia.
Source: Water Missions International
Drillers from Rogers and Company help rehabilitate a 16-inch diameter municipal water well with a depth of about 650 feet for Las Cruces, N.M.
Source: John Shomaker and Associates
Hydro Resources collects four borehole logs that will help inform local decision makers about the feasibility of storing water in the Denver Basin aquifer system.
Source: Hydro Resources
Two drilling rigs owned by Johnson Drilling install geothermal boreholes at the Whisper Valley net zero energy project in Austin, Texas.
Source: Phil Schoen/Geo-Enterprises