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.
Gauthier Well Drilling finishes up their latest job in South Mountain, Ontario.
Quarry drilling at sunrise with an IR DM30 IN Demorestville, Ontario.
A drilling rig at work in Colombia.
Drilling a well for a retirement apartment complex in Wasilla, Alaska.
Drilling in the woods outside Wasilla, Alaska, for a residential well.
Drilling monitoring wells for investigation of a chlorinated solvent release in Richmond, Va. Driller and crew from Fishburne Drilling, Chesapeake, Va.
Drilling through a bridge deck for interior bents for bridge replacement in Stokes County, N.C.
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.
Hydro Construction workers prepare to lower a cleaned pump back into the borehole on a water well drilling job in Sendafa, Ethiopia.
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.
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.
Two drilling rigs owned by Johnson Drilling install geothermal boreholes at the Whisper Valley net zero energy project in Austin, Texas.