National Driller articles from April 2002

National Driller archives from April 2002

Touring the geotechnical landscape. (For Openers).
April 1, 2002... The diversity of the drilling industry was on full display during a recent telephone tour of the geotechnical side of the industry. Everybody's putting holes in the ground, but where they're doing it, how they're doing it and just what the heck...

Profit is an attitude.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Some drilling contractors have discovered that developing a profit attitude among employees can significantly improve an organization's profitability. But attitudes are funny things. They are suggested by the way people walk, the way they smile...

Licensing in N.M. (New Scope).
April 1, 2002... The New Mexico Ground Water Association (NMGWA) is holding its quarterly meeting April 27-28, in Albuquerque. National Ground Water Association (NGWA) certification exams will be administered. New Mexico currently has no licensing testing...

Protecting our water from terrorism.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Large water utilities have been tutored on how to assess and address possible terrorist threats to the nation's drinking water supply systems through methodology recently released by the Awwa Research Foundation. Awwa Research Foundation,...

Water matters in the Midwest.(National Ground Water Association's Midwest Focus Ground Water Conference)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The results of population shifts in: the Midwest from rural to urban and the accompanying changes in landscape and water needs will be examined during the National Ground Water Association's Midwest Focus Ground Water Conference. The event...

'Buried dams' help clean recycled water.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Promising research findings into natural ways to cleanse polluted water have brought Australian scientists a step closer to a revolution in water reclamation -- the 'underground dam." Disease-causing microbes can effectively be eliminated from...

Trade Name Listings. (A-Z).
April 1, 2002... A 10T-Smeal Mfg. Company 12T-Smeal Mfg. Company 21[R]-Jet-Lube Inc. 255 PTC-Simco Drilling Equipment, Inc. 3-in-1 Utility Packer[TM]-Flatwater Fleet Inc. 3T-Smeal Mfg. Company 4T-Smeal Mfg. Company 50T-Smeal...

Manufacturer/Suppliers Alphabetical Listings. (A-Z).(Directory)
April 1, 2002... A & R Drilling 2475 Cerritos Ave. Long Beach, CA 90806 (562) 424-9992 Fax: (562) 424-5767 ardrilling@aol.com www.ardrilling.com Dominique Khalife Geotechnical and environmental drilling, soil sampling and...

Spike's supplies Clearwater with 10R Bucyrus Erie. (Trading Post).(Spike's Rig Sales)(Clearwater Drilling)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Mark Prince of Clearwater Drilling, Barrie, Ontario, recently took delivery of a 10R Bucyrus Erie from Spike McMichael of Spike's Rig Sales, which has offices in Oil City Pa., and Marco Island, Fla. The rig will be used in the water well...

Milan delivers to City of Lansing. (Trading Post).(Milan Supply Go.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Milan Supply Go., Mt. Pleasant, Mich., has sold a 10T Smeal pump hoist to the City of Lansing Board of Water and Light (BWL). Pictured (from left) are Mickey Matero, Jerry Vanlancker, Scott Hamelink and Tim Hundt, Lansing BWL employees.

Higgins does business with Trillas. (Trading Post).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Higgins Rig Co. of Hodgenville, Ky., sold this Speedstar 55 to Trillas Sta. Elena of Mexico. This drill has a 290 Cummins diesel deck engine, 7- by 10-inch Gardner Denver mud pump and a 50-foot derrick. The company will be using this unit to...

Product Listings. (A-W).
April 1, 2002... ATV American Drilling Supply, Inc. * CME/Central Mine Equipment Company Diedrich Drilling Equipment Harriss Drilling Services, Inc. Inland Tracked Equipment A. F. Kyle Drilling Equipment Malone Equipment Inc. ...

Catalog manager. (Product Info).(Coe-Truman Technologies)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Coe-Truman Technologies produces an Internet catalog engine and content manager that allows companies to quickly and efficiently update both their Web and print catalog data with a few clicks of the mouse. In addition to customizing and...

Check valve enhanced. (Product Info).(from Val-Matic Corp.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Swing-Flex, the check valve Val-Matic Corp. has designed to be maintenance free, is now supplied standard with an NSF-approved fusion bonded epoxy coating on both the interior and exterior valve. The coating helps provide maximum corrosion...

Electric submersible models. (Product Info).(advertisement)
April 1, 2002... Godwin Pumps recently unveiled its new Sub-Prime electric submersible pump GSP models, which feature a top discharge, flow rates to 5,000 gpm and discharge heads to 375 feet. The new Sub-Prime units, with a slim-line design helpful for fitting...

Pressure relief valves. (Product Info).(advertisement)
April 1, 2002... Merrill's new fully adjustable pressure relief valves are available in 3/4-, 1-, 1 1/4-, 1 1/2- and 2-inch iron pipe sizes. Pressure range for adjustment is 10 psi to 200 psi. These relief valves are factory preset at 75 psi, [+ or -] 5...

Seismographs. (Product Info).(from Thomas Instruments Inc. )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... VMS2000 Series blast monitoring seismographs from Thomas Instruments Inc. are completely field programmable and have a four line by 20 character LCD. Other features include peak particle velocity, PVS and frequency; a blasting log for event...

Acoustic well probes. (Product Info).(from SA Electronics Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... SA Electronics Inc. helps make water level measurement a more efficient process with its acoustic probes, the models 10A and 30A. These microprocessor-based instruments are designed to be easy to use -- the operator simply enters well casing...

Wellhead security -- Don't worry about Al Qaeda, worry about little Jimmy.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Since at least the mid 1990s, we have consistently recommended that our clients install passive security even on smaller wells in rural locations -- locking caps or shields, for instance. So far, we haven't been very persuasive. The pitless...

Early morning sounds.(Grand Ridge water system)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... As the sun peers over the rows of Planted pines, another day begins in northwest Florida. But this is not just any other day for the town of Grand Ridge, for the grinding sound of a drill rig has just broken the silence of the early morning....

Dear Wayne.
April 1, 2002... Got a couple questions from drillers this month -- both relating to problems associated with bottom hole assemblies. Bob in Florida Wayne: We drill mostly sand and gravel formations with layers of fairly hard limestone. When we drill...

Targeting water projects spending. (Legislative Update).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... A group of influential senators recently introduced landmark legislation that, if enacted, could stop more than $15 billion of water projects and would increase accountability for the embattled U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, according to...

Violations cited. (Water Treatment).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... A sewage treatment plant operator has been charged by federal officials with violating the Clean Water Act by discharging sewage without a permit. Sanville Utilities Inc. constructed and operated a sewage treatment plant near Bassett, Va.,...

Contamination prompts process switch. (Water Treatment).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... In Maryland, a state official said a switch to a disinfection process using chlorine ended the flow of contaminated wastewater from Hagerstown's sewage plant into Antietam Creek, but the city's top sewer plant official disagrees. ...

Waiver extended. (Water Treatment).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) supports extending a waiver that would allow San Diego to treat sewage at levels below those required by the federal Clean Water Act. In a draft wastewater permit recently issued, the EPA said...

The latest carbon treatment system. (Water Treatment).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... U.S. Microbics Inc. has announced that its wholly-owned technology subsidiary, XyclonyX, recently filed a patent application for the "Treatment of Contaminated Activated Charcoal" with the United States Patent Office. The new invention...

GE entering the treatment market. (Water Treatment).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... In a move that will launch GE into a new business segment and add $1 billion in annual sales, GE Specialty Materials, a unit of General Electric Co., recently announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the water treatment...

Chlorination suit is filed. (Water Treatment).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Twenty-five women already have filed suit against Chesapeake, Va., and nearly 170 have expressed the intention to do so, claiming that spikes in the amount of chlorination byproducts in their water caused their pregnancies to terminate in...

Eichelbergers receives tenth Flatwater. (Trading Post).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Jerry Rice (left), president, and Ted Gaymon, drilling manager, of Eichelbergers in Mechanicsburg, Pa., are shown picking up their company's tenth new RTT-Tender from Flatwater Fleet, Saginaw, Minn. The 1,500-gallon unit includes two 115-gallon...

Powell purchases Pulstar pump hoist. (Trading Post).
April 1, 2002... Paul Faulson of Powell Drilling located in Uriah, Ala., has bought a new P12000 pump hoist from Pulstar Mfg. Inc., Dodge, Neb.

Gosselin buys rig from Rotary. (Trading Post).
April 1, 2002... Dan Gosselin (left), owner of Gosselin Water Wells Inc., Derby, Vt., proudly accepts delivery of his new Driltech Model TM40KW from Jerry Sherman of Rotary Drilling Equipment Inc., Olyphant, Pa.

Reed gets new SEMCO. (Trading Post).
April 1, 2002... Pictured is Bruce Reed of Gillette, Wyo., picking up his new SEMCO S25,000 pump hoist from SEMCO Inc. in Lamar, Colo.

Melville picks up Rig from Spike's. (Trading Post).
April 1, 2002... Lee Melville recently took delivery of a Speedstar 72 from Spike McMichael of Spike's Rig Sales, a company with offices located in Oil City, Pa., and Marco Island, Fla. The rig will be used for the water well drilling industry in Salinas,...

North American sells to Elgin Mitchell & Son's. (Trading Post).
April 1, 2002... Elgin Mitchell & Son's, Simcoe, Ontario, recently took delivery of a 1988 Speedstar 15III TH that is equipped with a 5 1/2-by 8-inch mud pump, double drum drawworks, 70,000-inch-pound tophead, 256 SDS LeROI air compressor, water injection, pipe...

Schramm Rotadrill for Elsner. (Trading Post).
April 1, 2002... Kelly Elsner of Elsner Well Drilling, Menahga, Minn., recently purchased a Schramm T300M Rotadrill. This mud rotary drill is equipped with centrifugal mud, 300/200 air and 440 feet of onboard rod capacity. Support for this sale came from Roger...

Smeal sells to Harper. (Trading Post).
April 1, 2002... Andy Harper of Harper Drilling, Clinton, Mo., recently took delivery of a 12R Smeal pump hoist at Smeal Manufacturing Co., Snyder, Neb.

United acquires Pulstar through Mitchell. (Trading Post).
April 1, 2002... Richard Agueros (left) of United Pump Co., located in Hayden Lake, Idaho, was recently at the Pulstar Mfg. facility in Dodge, Neb., to pick up his new Pulstar P20000 pump hoist, which he purchased through Mitchell Water & Waste, Wilsonville...

Soil Vaopr Sampling. (Product Showcase).
April 1, 2002... ESP's 1.5-inch Soil Vapor Sampler utilizes the Post Run Tubing (PRT) system. The PRT fitting utilizes o-ring Connections to ensure a vacuum-tight seal. The soil vapor sample is drawn through the expendable point holder and PRT adapter into the...

Solid augers. (Product Showcase).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Solid augers from Mills Machine are manufactured with thick steel fighting and a heavy steel center shaft, and have a variety of cutting heads available. Used for utility, industrial, mining and construction applications, the augers are...

Fuel fluorescence detector. (Product Showcase).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Vertek's dual down-hole fuel fluorescent detector (FFD) detects the fluorescence produced by aromatic hydrocarbons when excited by an ultraviolet light source. The system is said to significantly reduce the time needed to detect and delineate...

New Piston Sampler. (Product Showcase).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The Piston Sampler from AMS collects discrete interval specific samples in difficult sampling conditions, such as flowing/heaving sands and swelling days using any direct push system. The system also can be used in soils below ground water. The...

Monitoring well caps. (Product Showcase).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The Ex-Cap, available from Enviro Design Products, comes in 2- and 4-inch sizes. When removing the quick connect device, the Ex-Cap is virtually, water- and air-tight in both directions, but when the connection device is secured with its snap...

Water level meter. (Product Showcase).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The Heron Water Tape is manufactured to be easy to use, easy to read and easy to clean. It has a 300-foot polyethylene tape reinforced with Kevlar. The measuring tape is wound on an aluminum reel mounted on a tubular steel frame. The 5/8-inch...

Accessory Lines. (Product Showcase).(advertising)
April 1, 2002... Slotted and perforated pipes from Atlantic Screen are available in sizes 1/2 inch through 24 inches -- all schedules. Also offered are fittings, manholes, porous pipe, locking caps, filter socks, passive skimmers, clear PVC pipe, sampling...

Monitoring well manholes. (Product Showcase).(advertising)
April 1, 2002... Advanced-design monitoring well manholes from I.E.S. feature solid cast iron construction, built-in lock anchors for stability and buna rubber seals for watertight performance. The 4-inch manholes are designed for use on geoprobe wells, and the...

Compact rig. (Product Showcase).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The SIMCO EP200/ATV is a ruggedly built, compact package to get drillers in and out of hard-to-access sites. It features a hydraulic probe hammer with bit pressure control, auger drill head, 42-inch net stroke with 20-inch mast slide. The rig...

Total fluids pump. (Product Showcase).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The Geotech Reclaimer system is a positive air displacement pump designed for hydrocarbon recovery, leachate and condensate in total fluids applications. Together with pneumatic controller, the systems are made to withstand aggressive down-well...