When the NASA Space Shuttle Program ended in 2011, Hashem and several thousand others in the Houston area were out of jobs and looking for work. Hashem picked up soil sampling as a way to earn money while looking for a permanent career.
A Klemm KR 807-7G drilling rig worked discretely in the shadows of a shoring wall on a busy jobsite traversed by heavy equipment in the budding metropolis of Tysons Corner, Virginia.
No matter the industry, no two career paths are carved out the same, and for Jim LaPorte, president of Mudslayer Manufacturing, his journey toward a career in drilling began with a unique instance of family misfortune.
Before ground breaks on any new construction project, the site in question must be investigated to determine whether the soil has the bearing capacity to support the proposed building.
Having the proper training and understanding of drilling fluids to know if a drilling fluid is capable of performing the task at hand can save contractors a lot of grief and money.
The manufacturers in the water conditioning industry had long realized that a successful filter had to get the iron from solution, or invisible, to suspension, or visible, iron. How to do this seemed to baffle everyone for a long time.
If you have drilled for any length of time, sooner or later you are going to stick your drill pipe. Recognizing the different ways drill pipe can get stuck is the first step in prevention — and recovery.
