Bill Murchison is president and CEO of Murchison Drilling Schools Inc., headquartered in Albuquerque, N.M., with an additional training center in Houston and a satellite branch in Ghana.

Jason Mueller is a drill operator at Geothermal Services Corp., located in West Harrison, Ind.

Roddy Qualls, owner of Roddy Qualls Environmental Drilling LLC in Fort Worth, Texas, has been directly involved with the drilling business since 1990.

Clay Myers is vice president of KM Drilling Inc., located in Camp Verde, Ariz.

Joe Large, water well and horizontal directional drilling (HDD) manager at Jet-Lube Inc., has been with the company just short of 20 years.

Andrews & Foster, based in Athens, Texas, is a 76-year-old family-owned company that specializes in water well drilling, cathodic protection drilling and groundwater exploration development.

The drilling industry is a “whole new world” today, compared to what it was around 60 years ago, according to David Haupt, MGWC.

When Jennifer Bonner got her start in the water well drilling business, she wasn’t planning to make a career out of it.

Travis Roberts, vice president of Millstadt, Ill.-based Roberts Environmental Drilling, followed his father into the drilling business after high school. Although his official experience with drilling amounts to 11 years, he’s been around it since childhood.

Bobby Farmer is a third-generation Texas foundation driller who’s been associated with the business for virtually his entire life.