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.

As a skilled trade that takes pride in our chosen vocation, it is vastly important that we ensure the welfare and industry professional standards that we take pride in.

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.

Is the Drilling Industry Attracting Young Talent? If you had to start over, would you start over in this industry?

In October, I and my sons Randy and Piglet attended the Virginia Water Well Association’s 2016 Outdoor Days in Christiansburg, Va.