With a wave of infrastructure funds coming, suppliers and buyers can ultimately help one another succeed.

Checklists, signs, leadership and training all feed into safety culture, buy-in from drill crews up to owners.

Many manufacturers and suppliers offer drilling fluids training that can have a direct effect on success rates.

Operators can calculate a rough time per rod once they know per-foot volume for the bore and pump speed.

Early polymer slurries struggled when drilling unconsolidated soils. Fluid-loss additives changed the game.

Don’t expect these common tools for testing fluids to have same results for high-solids, gelling mixes.

It helps if the whole company, from drillers to owners, knows the value of a good fluid for tricky, sticky geologies.

Changes to usability, suspension, dosage often driven by requests from HDD, other contractors in the field.

Yes, MMO behaves differently, but it can prove effective in unconsolidated formations.