In late January, Tim Mulville, president and CEO of Missouri City, Texas-based non-profit Wells of Hope, contacted The Driller about the need of a nearby missionary organization he’s grown well acquainted with through the church he attends.

Nebraska irrigates the most acres in the country from water wells — 7,875,162 — according to a 2007 Census of Agriculture report.

Andrews & Foster, based in Athens, Texas, is a 76-year-old family-owned company that specializes in water well drilling, cathodic protection drilling and groundwater exploration development.

The drilling industry is a “whole new world” today, compared to what it was around 60 years ago, according to David Haupt, MGWC.

When Jennifer Bonner got her start in the water well drilling business, she wasn’t planning to make a career out of it.

Travis Roberts, vice president of Millstadt, Ill.-based Roberts Environmental Drilling, followed his father into the drilling business after high school. Although his official experience with drilling amounts to 11 years, he’s been around it since childhood.

Over the past 17 years, Tim Mulville, president and CEO of Missouri City, Texas-based non-profit Wells of Hope, has helped bring potable water wells to communities across Mexico and Africa. While each mission was, of course, unique, Kendleton Farms — the site of his latest venture — is especially out of the ordinary, and not because it is just 30 minutes away.

Bobby Farmer is a third-generation Texas foundation driller who’s been associated with the business for virtually his entire life.

Drilling large commercial and municipal wells in cramped quarters is not for everyone.

After graduating high school in the ’90s, Cory Baker started working with pipelines and eventually learned about directional drilling.