One of the commonly heard terms these days is “big data.” A definition found in a recent Forbes.com article stated that big data is “a collection of data from traditional and digital sources inside and outside your company that represents a source for ongoing discovery and analysis.”
Crossing underneath the Mississippi River using horizontal directional drilling sounds like it could be something out of a driller’s fairy tale. Pipeline owner, Boardwalk Louisiana Midstream, made that fairy tale a reality.
I have a soft spot for human achievement. We engineer, drill and tunnel ourselves out of some of the hardest problems imaginable. This month, we write about a project that installed a pipeline for brine under the Mississippi River.
The Ditch Witch organization showcased some of its latest horizontal directional drill (HDD) tooling at the Underground Construction Technology (UCT) International Conference and Exhibition, held Jan. 28-30 in Houston.