During my travels as a territory sales manager for CETCO, I often hear comments about the price of bentonite. Many companies offer bentonite-based products and they have many different price points. For example, bentonite chips used to seal and decommission boreholes are offered by many companies with a wide range of prices. Not all chips are created equal! 

 During a free webinar the company will talk about special polymers that boost drilling muds. 

 APSCO Pumping Services announced the opening of an office in Aston, Pa., to serve East Coast customers. 

 The federal government is the 800-pound gorilla of land usage. With mineral rights of over 700 million acres, the United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is the largest landowner in the country, so when it speaks, anyone with a vested interest in land use is wise to listen carefully. 

 Hydraulic fracking has a bad reputation with some environmentalists, who think that the heavy water usage involved in fracking projects is too destructive to the environment. But one preventable environmental concern relates to excavating permanent water storage basins. Drillers can find ways to store the water they need without as much environmental disruption.