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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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Andrew Farr
March 23, 2011
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Directional Drilling
HDD Key to Construction of Wisconsin Wind Farm
February 10, 2011
Canada
DRILLMASTER – Maintaining Emissions Compliant Engines — Part 2
February 10, 2011
Directional Drilling
Benjamin Media & Westrade Group Named to Sell Exhibit Space at 2012 Brazilian No-Dig
February 10, 2011
Directional Drilling
No River Too Wide, No Mountain Too High, No Rock Too Tough
January 1, 2011
Directional Drilling
Be Patient: Fiber-to-the-Home Market Shows Promise

We’ve all seen illustrations showing a conventional telecommunications cable — thick as a man’s forearm and contai...

January 1, 2011
Directional Drilling
UIM Conference Gathers in Cleveland

Despite a healthy dose of winter weather, the annual UIM Conference — themed “A Holistic Approach to Water Managemen...

January 1, 2011
Directional Drilling
Are You Properly Insured?

Construction insurance pricing continues to be soft in the current market with rates, after falling precipitously in the...

December 1, 2010
Directional Drilling
Gas Transmission Line Installed in India Using HDD

When a project is selected as the “Job of the Year,” you know it was a unique situation that required some serious i...

December 1, 2010
Directional Drilling
The Importance of Bore Planning

Although many HDD jobs don’t require extensive bore planning, there is a great deal of value in taking some basic step...

December 1, 2010
Directional Drilling
Tips for Operating & Maintaining Your Nozzles

David Bradford has been with Shamrock Pipe Tools Inc. for more than 16 years and has seen it all during that time when c...

December 1, 2010
Directional Drilling
What to Think About When Drilling in Rock

Completing bores in rock can be one of the most satisfying accomplishments of a horizontal directional drilling contract...

November 1, 2010
Canada
Why Is Drilling Fluid Non-Newtonian?

Drilling fluid manuals generally differentiate between Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids. This is an important distinct...

November 1, 2010
Directional Drilling
Directional Drilling Used to Install Michigan Force Main

Both Hampton Township and the City of Essexville in Bay County Mich., were in need of a way to transport wastewater from...

November 1, 2010
Directional Drilling
WEFTEC 2010 Sets New Exhibition Record in New Orleans

A total of 17,515 water professionals and 984 exhibiting companies occupying a record-breaking 295,295 net sq ft of exhi...

November 1, 2010
Directional Drilling
HDD Crossing in Florida Completed Using Design-Build

Mears Group Inc. completed in April a 7,400-ft horizontal directionally drilled (HDD) bore in Jacksonville, Fla., a desi...

October 1, 2010
Directional Drilling
Case Study: Escambia Superfund Site in Pensacola, Fla.

In the summer 2009, Directed Technologies Drilling Inc. (DTD) installed one of its longest horizontal remediation wells...

October 1, 2010
Directional Drilling
DrillMaster: New Methods for Gravity Sewers

If we in the infrastructure business — whether municipality, contractor, consultant or equipment supplier — are to l...

October 1, 2010
Directional Drilling
Vacuum Truck Maintenance

When it comes to using a vacuum truck, you not only want full productivity and optimum performance, you also want to ext...

October 1, 2010
Horizontal Directional Drilling
HDD, Restrained Joint PVC Pipe

When the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) signed off on plans to repave a portion of Ohio Route 531 in Ashtabula...

September 10, 2010
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