Bess, Piglet and I recently formed a non-profit business, Ground Water International Solutions, to generate funds to purchase equipment, refurbish it and send it with the expertise to teach people in developing countries to drill water wells properly.

For many years, I traveled the world teaching water well drilling and now our son Chris (known as “Piglet”) continues in my footsteps.

OK, all y’all air drillers just thumb on over to Porky’s column or something.

You open your email (or snail mail) and there it is, a formal RFP (request for bid) replete with multiple attachments.

Two columns back, I wrote about driving over the top of a very thinly covered well pit and the rear wheels of my rig going through with the frame of the truck hitting the ground.

If I ask you about your “comfort zone,” what comes to mind?

After a five-year stint of coaching high school basketball, Randy Smith is returning to a field he’s very familiar with, oil and gas drilling.

More than 600 million people around the world lack improved drinking water sources, according to a June 2015 UNICEF and World Health Organization (WHO) report on sanitation and drinking water.

Sonic is something a lot of drillers talk about, particularly in environmental and geotechnical.

When it comes to any profession, success, efficiency and customer satisfaction are always the end goals.