Entries Tagged Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD)

The new Vermeer MUD Hub slurry solidification system helps control the cost, time and complexity of drilling fluid management. Using the new...

Since September of 2015, more than 75 operators have completed the Vermeer HDD Circuit training program. This two-week course pairs Vermeer experts with...

Investing in expensive equipment in an effort to diversify services and enter new markets poses a calculated risk, especially when it involves...

With the two profiles Dig Different magazine features each issue, we capture the work that contractors do through both words and pictures. When...

Ditch Witch has introduced an industry-first virtual reality simulator to better prepare horizontal directional drill operators for safe underground construction. “Our next-generation HDD...

Many of the HDD jobs that Underground Systems LLC takes on are fairly routine, straight-line bores for telecommunications companies — bread-and-butter work...

For a clear-cut illustration of how investments in new technology can kick-start established companies and help them break into a different —...

In directional drilling, most of the focus is put on the drill, but if you want to eliminate downtime on drilling sites,...

You start on one side of an obstacle and shoot underneath to the other side: That’s how horizontal directional drilling typically works....

A waterline installation in Ohio is one of the latest projects to benefit from the minimal environmental disruption that horizontal directional drilling...

The demand for horizontal directional drilling projects is growing every year. But whether you’re just starting out or an experienced contractor, if...

The skilled labor shortage crisis facing the construction and excavation industry gets personal when one of your most valuable crew members leaves...

The new Vermeer MUD Hub slurry solidification system helps control the cost, time and complexity of drilling fluid management. Using the new...

Downhole tooling matters … a lot. Nearly every horizontal directional drilling contractor would agree with that. Yet their actions don’t always match their...