In our February 2020 edition of The Driller, we talk sonic drilling with Huug Eijkelkamp and Troy Chipps of Royal Eijkelkamp, a drilling rig manufacturer working to grow in the North American market.
After all the years I have attended NGWA, I found myself in an uncharted drilling community of drillers from all around the world. I had to seek out the team that brought drillers together from multiple continents.
Rotary bits can handle soft to medium soil formations. But when you find yourself between a rock and a hard place, you need specialized equipment designed to power through rock formations.
More than 50 years passed before sonic drilling came back to one of its earliest uses as a pile driver. Today, the technology is far superior and set to revolutionize the piling industry with a just-patented method.
We tend to overlook half the population when recruiting for entry-level field-services roles, and that is something we can't afford to do when the labor market is this tight.
Back in early 2000, when I first started working with mixed-metal hydroxide, very few drillers had ever heard this type of fluid and even fewer had ever seen it used.