Parting Shot 2015
Our Parting Shots feature in The Driller puts the spotlight on drilling contractors and the work they do in the field. Our 2015 gallery showcases a collection of photos from the year. To see more Parting Shot photos, click here.
Parting Shot December 2015
TEI Rock Drills demos the HEM360 excavator with a TE360 drifter installing 38-millimeter hollow bars at the company’s recent open house at their facility in Montrose, Colo.
Parting Shot November 2015
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contractors prepare for jet grouting to expand a seepage cutoff wall in the levee running near the Watt Avenue Bridge in Sacramento, Calif., in this July 2013 project.
Parting Shot October 2015
A drilling crew uses a diamond rig to perform exploration work on a uranium claim in the western United States in this 1955 photo.
Parting Shot September 2015
A rig works a shale well in the Marcellus fields near Roulette, Pa., just south of the border with New York.
Parting Shot August 2015
The U.S. Army 257th Engineer Team conducts a well drilling operation at Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti in this March 2012 photo.
Parting Shot July 2015
On a recent job GeoTek Hawaii, under URS/AECOM oversight, completes one of several geotechnical borings to 100 feet by setting hollow stem augers and wireline coring through mixed coralline formations.
Parting Shot June 2015
A jet grouting rig finishes up levee work underneath Howe Avenue Bridge along the American River in Sacramento, Calif., last November.
Parting Shot May 2015
A Coral Construction Company crew puts a Watson 2100TM drill rig to work on a highway project outside of Denver.
Parting Shot April 2015
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District crews drill 70-feet-deep monitoring wells in preparation for levee work along the American River near the Howe Avenue bridge in Sacramento, Calif.
Parting Shot March 2015
Drillers with Hub Foundation Company of Harvard, Mass., dump cuttings from the calyx basket of an Atlas Copco cluster drill during a bridge foundation job in Rhode Island.
Parting Shot February 2015
Seabees with the Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 11 conduct water well drilling exercises at Camp Shelby, Miss., in this 2013 photo. The battalion’s home port is Gulfport, Miss.
Parting Shot January 2015
Drillers do a breakout on a deep geothermal well under the Jemez Plateau in New Mexico. During tests of a pair of 8,500-foot-deep wells, researchers were able to extract heat of 17 million BTUs per hour.