Enbridge Gas Distribution recently announced the donation of $450,000 in equipment to central Ontario’s Fleming College. The equipment, including a directional drill system, goes to the college’s Resources Drilling and Blasting program.
Canadian firm North American Energy Partners Inc. (NAEP) recently announced the sale of the company's piling division to Keller, the U.K.-based ground engineering specialist.
The National Drilling Association expects more than 100 drillers, drilling managers, company owners and manufacturers at the 2012 NDA Convention this fall.
In the days following a bombing in Boston and severe weather across the country, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers held a ceremony to unveil the completion of one of their largest endeavors.
Considered a mentor by those who worked with him, Tom Oothoudt is fondly remembered as a visionary in the sonic drilling industry. The former head of North Star Drilling passed away last November, but his legacy will live on for years to come.
Whenever I read an issue of The Driller magazine and see an article about limited-access drilling, I get a little excited. But then I usually feel a bit disappointed when I realize that it’s about limited access for foundation drilling. While it certainly is important to have buildings with a properly designed and built foundation, that’s not the only type of limited access drilling. In my case, the discipline is geotechnical and environmental drilling.
Repairing Wolf Creek Dam, which was build in the 1940s, would have been a big job under any circumstances. But new technology and help from Treviicos-Soletanche helped the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers complete the work with confidence.
Seaside Heights, N.J. was already famous for its boardwalk even before the show “Jersey Shore” made it infamous. According to Mayor Bill Akers, as many as 40,000 people come out to visit the tourist attraction on holiday weekends during the warmer months.
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