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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.

Application of Trenchless in Multilaterally Funded Urban Infrastructure Projects in India
Andrew Farr
June 29, 2011
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Directional Drilling
SAERTEX multiCom GmbH Expands Production Capacities
June 8, 2011
Directional Drilling
Utility Locating with Ground Penetrating Radar:
June 2, 2011
Directional Drilling
Tough Rock Not a Problem
June 2, 2011
Directional Drilling
Product Profile: Clear-Bore
April 26, 2011
Directional Drilling
Drilling with the Environment

When Bortech Co. Inc’s HDD crew began working on a project for National Grid in Malden, Mass., it...

April 26, 2011
Directional Drilling
Compact Directional Drilling:

As part of its system maintenance program in Colorado, Xcel Energy is in the process of replacing a...

April 26, 2011
Directional Drilling
Pipe Inspections Target Sewer Cross Bores in Minnesota

In February 2010, a St. Paul, Minn.-home exploded as a plumber was snaking out a clogged sewer later...

April 26, 2011
Directional Drilling
Contractor Profile

Having weathered at least two major downturns in business — including the fiber bust of the early...

March 23, 2011
Directional Drilling
Challenging HDD Project in Trinidad Completed

Not all horizontal directional drilling (HDD) contractors are created equally. That much was clear l...

March 23, 2011
Directional Drilling
Northwest Boring Receives Microtunneling Award

Northwest Boring Co. Inc. (NWB) of Woodinville, Wash., was awarded the prestigious 2011 Microtunnel...

March 23, 2011
Directional Drilling
Mud System Buying: Do Your Homework

When the economy took a nosedive in 2008, contractors pulled back on their spending on equipment, de...

March 23, 2011
Directional Drilling
HDD Key to Construction of Wisconsin Wind Farm

Project owner We Energies received the Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity authorizing c...

February 10, 2011
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DRILLMASTER – Maintaining Emissions Compliant Engines — Part 2

The October 2008 issue of Trenchless Technology included an article discussing the role fluids play...

February 10, 2011
Directional Drilling
Benjamin Media & Westrade Group Named to Sell Exhibit Space...

The International Society’s 29th annual Conference and Exhibition, hosted by the Brazil Society fo...

February 10, 2011
Directional Drilling
No River Too Wide, No Mountain Too High, No Rock...

When Wayne Holden left the rugged, rocky terrain of central Arkansas in 1975 on an adventure that to...

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’...

January 1, 2011
Directional Drilling
UIM Conference Gathers in Cleveland

Despite a healthy dose of winter weather, the annual UIM Conference — themed “A Holistic Approac...

January 1, 2011
Directional Drilling
Are You Properly Insured?

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

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 req...

December 1, 2010
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