Parting Shot 2020
Our Parting Shots feature in The Driller puts the spotlight on drilling contractors and the work they do in the field. Now, we've assembled those pictures into an entire online showcase for readers' enjoyment. Check here each month for the latest addition or click here to see previous years' galleries.
Parting Shot December 2020
A crew with New England Boring Contractors installs a monitoring well in Rangeley, Maine.
Parting Shot November 2020
Drillers conduct coring operations in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on behalf of the Energy Research and Development Administration in this 1977 photo.
Parting Shot October 2020
U.S. Army Sgt. Roy Hayes, left, and Spc. Andrew Collins drill a water well in Dikhil, Djibouti, in this 2009 photo. They were deployed with the 775th Well Drilling Detachment, 194th Engineer Battalion, a part of the Tennessee Army National Guard.
Parting Shot September 2020
A crew at Howard Hanson Dam outside Auburn, Washington, prepares to reinforce the site with grout to fortify the dam in this 2009 photo.
Parting Shot August 2020
The mud tank and shakers on a drilling jobsite in California. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) was drilling a groundwater observation well in California in this January 2020 photo.
Parting Shot July 2020
Pablo Naranjo, a project engineer with URS Corporation, holds an empty soil sample tube on a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project jobsite along the American River in Sacramento, California, in this 2011 photo. Engineers were assessing erosion and seepage risk.
Parting Shot June 2020
Crews fill a caisson with cement at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory in Butte County, Idaho, in this 1950 photo. In the background, drill rigs excavate more holes for caissons.
Parting Shot May 2020
Geologist Meghan Riehl inspects soil samples during groundwater investigations near Fort Jackson, South Carolina, in this 2016 photo. The Savannah District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was putting a sonic rig through the paces, testing it on subsurface and geotechnical investigation projects.
Parting Shot April 2020
Drillers with Gregory Drilling get treated to a double rainbow over their jobsite on a recent 20-inch well project for the Port of Moses Lake in eastern Washington.
Parting Shot March 2020
Drillers install the second of three geothermal systems for the Net-Zero Energy Residential Test Facility in this 2011 image.
Parting Shot February 2020
A piling rig works on the foundations for the 45 Parliament Street project in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in this 2013 photo.
Parting Shot January 2020
Crews with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District perform levee seepage cutoff wall work in this 2014 photo.