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Horizontal Directional Drilling

Horizontal directional drilling (HDD) is a minimally invasive trenchless method of installing underground utilities such as pipe, conduit or cables in a relatively shallow arc or radius along a prescribed underground path using a surface-launched drilling rig.

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Swivels are one of those pieces of HDD tooling that every HDD project — from small fiber installs to big inch oil proj...

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As many of you know, our industry is typically required to have a qualified drilling fluid engineer on site. Their prima...

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For trenchless contractors, it is not just the hardness, but rather the varying densities and unpredictable inconsistenc...

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Fusible PVC pipe was first introduced in 2003 and since then, there have been more than 12,000 projects involving Fusibl...

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By the time this project for The Villages retirement community is completed, K3 Directional Drilling will have bored und...

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The Slave Lake region is located within the Canadian boreal forest, approximately 250 km north of the City of Edmonton, ...

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Selecting the correct tooling for an HDD job can mean the difference between a productive and profitable job vs. a slow...

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