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Directional Drilling

Directional drilling, also known as 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.

Power Dynamics LLC Now Manufactures Maxi Size HDD Rigs
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September 19, 2014
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Contractor Spotlight: A-B Contracting
September 19, 2014
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Horizontal Environmental Wells – Look Before You Leap
September 19, 2014
Business/People
Vermeer Announces Family Succession Plans
August 26, 2014
Directional Drilling
Sharewell HDD LLC Continues to Serve the HDD Market
August 20, 2014
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Time and Cost-Savings Achieved While Drilling in Hard Rock

When Eastern Missouri Industries, a leading construction contractor and utility installation company, was tasked to inst...

August 20, 2014
Directional Drilling
Saddle up – for the HDD Rodeo Italian Style!

At unique HDD event, 56 teams of drillers show off their skills to more than 400 in attendance, in an exciting arena com...

August 20, 2014
Directional Drilling
Success in Scandinavia

Top performances can be achieved with trenchless installation methods, even in icy temperatures well below the freezing...

August 20, 2014
Directional Drilling
HOBAS Pipe Expands Field Service Support

HOBAS Pipe USA has expanded its field service group to include seven technicians located across the country....

July 16, 2014
Directional Drilling
New South Carolina Water Main Provides for Future Needs

Building now to plan for the needs of its population to 2030, York County, S.C., decided to install a new, large diamete...

July 14, 2014
Directional Drilling
Teaming Up in the Bakken

For 72 consecutive years, Gabe’s Construction Co. has maintained the focus embedded by founder Jacob Gabrielse on bein...

July 14, 2014
Directional Drilling
Digging Under the Desert

Desert Boring Excavation LLC arrives at a hot, sunbaked jobsite. The company has been called in for a utility expansion...

June 13, 2014
Canada
Powering Alberta

More than 166 windmills, 300 megawatts, 140,000 homes and just one drill; when the numbers are all added up, they total...

June 13, 2014
Archives
Enlarged and in Charge

In the early days, the bores were smaller and at shorter distances and were drilled using a reaming bit attached to a 3-...

May 14, 2014
Directional Drilling
Alternative Method

As MarkWest Energy Partners looked to complete its Majorsville to Hopedale pipeline, the company was looking at an uphil...

May 14, 2014
Directional Drilling
Pure Technologies Ltd. Awarded $2.6M in New Work in Australia

Pure Technologies Ltd. awarded $2.6 million in new work in Australia....

May 14, 2014
Directional Drilling
SEKISUI SPR Americas and SEKISUI NordiTube Merge Services

Spiral wound specialist SEKISUI SPR Americas and cured-in-place pipe (CIPP) expert SEKISUI NordiTube Inc. have merged, c...

April 9, 2014
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Drill Rod Check

Horizontal directional drills are rugged machines designed to handle challenging situations. They are engineered to func...

April 8, 2014
Directional Drilling
Getting Connected

From an engineering standpoint, it might not be the largest project KCI Technologies Inc. has ever tackled but in terms...

April 8, 2014
Directional Drilling
Contractor Profile: EBC Enterprises Riding the Energy Wave

In the event that you’ve been living under 25,000 psi rock formation, there’s an oil and gas boom taking place in sh...

March 19, 2014
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