REM Directional Moves From Traditional Excavation to Directional Drilling

Contractor shifts from laying water and sewer lines to becoming a large HDD operation and sees business boom.
REM Directional Moves From Traditional Excavation to Directional Drilling
REM Directional technician Solomon Rivera attaches a new length of pipe for the Herrenknecht HK250C HDD rig. The company is drilling a pilot hole on a 1,500-foot pipe job through rock in Tennessee. REM Directional, a directional drilling company, got its start in 1992 by Joel Colgrove Sr. as REM Service.

If not for a homeowner’s resistance to having a driveway dug up, Joel Colgrove Jr. might still be laying water and sewer lines instead of owning one of the country’s largest horizontal directional drilling companies, REM Directional.

But while the business world is full of...

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