In the June 2014 issue of The Driller discover how the water scarcity has created opportunities for drillers, understand the many issues facing water well drillers from a hydrogeologist's perspective, and tips to keep irrigation wells pumping.
Several years ago, Franklin Electric Co. became aware that thousands of children die every day in Africa from diseases caused by drinking dirty surface water.
Daniel Ortuño pulled a small piece of Texas history from a shelf in a building at the University of Texas at Austin. The yellowing piece of paper said that on Dec. 19, 1951, John L. Boyd began drilling a 1,350-foot-deep oil well through 17 layers of shale and limestone in Crockett County in southwest Texas.
Nearly 70 years after Ball State University installed its four coal-fired boilers, school employees have stopped shoveling, and the old system has gone cold as the university embraces renewable energy with the world’s largest district closed geothermal energy system.
One of Colorado’s largest geothermal projects recently drew to a close. Solaire Apartments in Brighton, Colo., is entirely heated and cooled by ground-source heat pumps.
I think a lot about training and thought about it again as I read freelancer Aaron Foley’s article this month (page 32) on a gas well simulator at the Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport, Pa.
Solinst Canada released a new version of the Model 122M Mini Interface Meter, a compact, portable instrument for accurately measuring floating or sinking hydrocarbon/product layers in water (LNAPL and DNAPL).
Flomatic Corporation introduced the Model 80DICL-VFD special patent-pending submersible pump check valve for use with variable-frequency drive (VFD) control submersible pumps.