Drillers @Work 2021
Drilling contractors find themselves in the field far more often than most. Rig-up, rig-down, there are always memorable views worth sharing. Our Drillers @Work gallery for 2021 showcases photos submitted by readers throughout the year.
A crew with Caster Drilling Enterprises works to deepen a 6-inch residential well in Bemus Point, N.Y.
Source: Trent Caster / Caster Drilling Enterprises
While “things went horribly wrong,” Rex Penry, owner of CP Drilling in Leedey, Oklahoma, walked away from this accident. His family thanks everyone for reaching out.
Source: Robyn Penry / CP Drilling
A crew with Madrid CPWG drills to 200 feet from a jack-up barge in Florida’s Tampa Bay. They conducted exploration work using the CME-75 in advance of a planned expansion of Howard Franklin Bridge.
Source: Brett Arenas / Madrid CPWG
A crew with PT Supra Internasional Indonesia installs a 6-inch, 100-meter monitoring well with an Atlas Copco rig in East Java, Indonesia.
Source: Anugrah Pangestu / PT Supra Internasional Indonesia
Patrick Harris of Harris Exploration Drilling gets his Schramm 685 ready to run a 12-inch EDM hammer with a 19-inch bit through a basalt lava pit in southern California.
Source: Patrick Harris / Harris Exploration Drilling
A crew with Utraco Pte Ltd. in Singapore installs micropiles for a new Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station.
Source: Bingquan Tan / Utraco Pte Ltd.
A crew with SME is set up to drill the bed of Wixom Lake near Beaverton, Michigan. Drillers were doing advance work for a new bridge.
Source: Jared Belian / SME
Dewey Wright Well & Pump Co. works through sundown on a project in Deep Gap, North Carolina.
Source: Jonathan Miller / Dewey Wright Well & Pump Co.
A Keystone 50 cable-tool drill on tracks from the fleet of Caster Drilling Enterprises. The company uses them for off-road sites like hunting camps common to wester New York and Pennsylvania.
Source: Trent Caster / Caster Drilling Enterprises
A crew with Wheaton Water Wells enjoys the view while setting up for a new well in Whittier, Alaska.
Source: Brian Wille / Wheaton Water Wells
A crew with Talon/LPE works a Geoprobe 7822DT on an air rotary job in Carrizo Springs, Texas.
Source: Marcus Doyle / Talon/LPE
A water well exploration project is wrapped up in East Java, Indonesia.
Source: PT. Supra International Indonesia