Software helps create bore plan to keep directional drilling project on track
Problem: Two hundred feet from Florida’s Turnpike, the K3 Directional Drilling team and their Vermeer D100x140 Navigator horizontal directional drill bored under the roadway 30 times across a 6-mile area on a utility expansion project for The Villages near Leesburg and Wildwood, Florida. They needed a way to visualize the work being done.
Solution: The company used Vermeer Projects to recreate a bore for each drill shot. The process involved walking the path using a tablet loaded with Vermeer Projects and a GPS device. Utilities and other obstacles were marked, and depth
