In
my last column I talked briefly about fishing for food on the ice and that one
had better be careful how thick the ice was or they could be in a rough spot.
In part one of our two-part series on the legal implications of hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") for drillers, published in the January 2013 issue of The Driller, we provided an up-to-date nationwide review of fracking-related litigation in order to illustrate various third-party litigation risks undertaken by those engaged in the practice.
Ecologix Environmental Systems has introduced its Integrated Treatment System (ITS) platform, a water management system to clean and recycle water for fracking operations.
Italy's Trevi Group recently accomplished a new feat in slurry walls, hitting a depth of 820 feet (250 meters). The company says it gives designers of major building and infrastructure projects a new tool for their toolboxes.
Dear
readers, I’m writing this in very early January 2013 and although you will read
this a little later, I hope you had a prosperous and safe holiday.
Before
state well regulations and drilling licensing was required, our company would
occasionally drill a well inside a property where a basement was to be built.