Horizontal Directional Drilling is a trenchless technique of installing underground pipes and conduits that is gaining in popularity. Besides enabling crossings underneath rivers, roads and structures ...
as the Father of HDD, crossed the Pajaro River in northern California in 1971. Horizontal directional drilling (HDD) has gained popularity in the power delivery industry for undergrounding ...
In Part 1 we discussed why there is rapid expansion of Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) for undergrounding transmission and distribution line; mainly to prevent storm-related and wildfire outages ...
Directional drilling has been an integral part of the oil and gas industry since the 1920s. While the technology has improved over the years, the concept of directional drilling remains the same: ...
Choosing the right size horizontal directional drill (HDD) for utility work can be a real challenge. Trying to manage multiple customers in multiple locations and varying ground conditions can ...
D60x90 Navigator horizontal directional drill is powered by a Deere Tier 4-I 185-horsepower engine, supplying 9,000 ft.-lb. of rotational torque and 60,000 pounds of thrust/pullback. The D60X90 offers ...
PG&E's Rio Dell feeder project has received approval from the California State Lands Commission. The project will bore two 1,400-foot conduits under the Eel River to improve reliability and capacity ...
Several Russian oil field case histories have demonstrated that expandable-profile tubulars or pipes have proven to be an effective way to control formation caving and sloughing problems in ...
Efficient drilling in shale reservoirs requires detailed 3-dimensional (3D) horizontal well trajectories. An orthogonal-arc trajectory (OAT) method assumes a single constant curvature in the curved ...
With limited public notice, the US Army Corps of Engineers has placed a new option on the table for the future of the Line 5 pipeline as it prepares to make a high-profile permitting decision about ...
A sinkhole measuring roughly four metres in length, width, and depth has opened up on Jalan Wangsa Delima 4 in Wangsa Maju, ...