The Driller Magazine

Will Keyes of Griffin Dewatering offers ideas for mentoring, jobsite leadership and punching out at 5 p.m.

Articulated masts add flexibility required for micropiles, tiebacks, but come with specific risks to mitigate.

Transferrable skills make them an asset to environmental, other drilling companies, but where to find them?

Changes to usability, suspension, dosage often driven by requests from HDD, other contractors in the field.

What is a leader to do with unclear project goals or tasks crews feel overqualified for?

Columnist David King recounts 6,000-plus mile trip to oilfields of Xinjiang Province.

Columnist John Schmitt rounds out his discussion of specialized cable-tool bits for particular drilling challenges.