Aqueous drilling through clay has always been a potentially difficult situation and, over the years, sundry solutions have been presented to combat this sticky enemy.

Mr. Cutter Spent Years Writing for The Driller.

Readers of The Driller will instantly recognize the name Bob Oliver.

This January will mark 40 years of experience of working with drilling fluids and drilling fluids recycling equipment for this author, and yours truly could write a book on drilling fluids mixing errors made by both vertical and horizontal directional drilling contractors.

At the heart of every well operation is a pump drive system that you may know very little about. But you should.

I spent the first six weeks of my time at Andrews & Foster observing. I observed office workflow, the field operations, and the communication methods between the office and the field.

In my travels around the world, I find that many farmers are also the local well digger (that is, the person who digs wells by hand).

As a young vertical driller, I believed that vertical drilling and horizontal drilling were radically different.