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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.

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November 14, 2014
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Drilling Fluids: It’s About the Chemistry
November 14, 2014
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Project of the Year – New Installation
October 18, 2014
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Contractor Profile: Sorensen Companies Inc.
October 18, 2014
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Reclaiming Progress
October 18, 2014
Business/People
Power Dynamics LLC Now Manufactures Maxi Size HDD Rigs

Power Dynamics LLC, based in Stennis Space Center, Miss., has joined the ranks of HDD rig manufactur...

September 19, 2014
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Contractor Spotlight: A-B Contracting

Thirty years ago, Bonnie Muegge formed A-B Contracting in Missouri to tackle underground service lin...

September 19, 2014
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Horizontal Environmental Wells – Look Before You Leap

Most HDD contractors are constantly looking to increase sales and profits. If profits can be increas...

September 19, 2014
Business/People
Vermeer Announces Family Succession Plans

Vermeer announces its plans for the company's future....

August 26, 2014
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Sharewell HDD LLC Continues to Serve the HDD Market

Sharewell HDD LLC is marking its 30th anniversary in 2014. A company born out of the Texas oilfields...

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...

August 20, 2014
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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 a...

August 20, 2014
Directional Drilling
Success in Scandinavia

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

August 20, 2014
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HOBAS Pipe Expands Field Service Support

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

July 16, 2014
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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...

July 14, 2014
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Teaming Up in the Bakken

For 72 consecutive years, Gabe’s Construction Co. has maintained the focus embedded by founder Jac...

July 14, 2014
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Digging Under the Desert

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

June 13, 2014
Canada
Powering Alberta

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

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...

May 14, 2014
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Alternative Method

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

May 14, 2014
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