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54 MARCH 2018 WorldWide Drilling Resource ® Mark your calendar for the Geoprobe ® Open House, April 26, in Salina, Kansas. If you are a customer, consultant, regulator, or industry professional who wants to spend time with Geoprobe ® engineers who design new and innovative machines and tooling, this is where you need to go. Environmental and geotechnical college professors and students are also welcome. People from around the world see new releases and hear about new technology still in development during this day- long event. Team Geoprobe ® also demos their machines and tooling - showing what happens during work in the ground. Workshops are available and the service team is ready for your questions. Lunch is provided, along with Team Geoprobe ® ’s specialty - homemade ice cream! Sign up at www.geoprobe.com/oh18 The 53 rd Annual Shallow Exploration Drillers Clinic (SEDC) is packed with a full agenda of technical presentations, featuring a National Drilling Association program. This traveling event will be held April 17- 18, at the La Vista Conference Center and Embassy Suites by Hilton in La Vista (Omaha), Nebraska. Indoor and outdoor displays of products and equipment to aid the exploration drilling industry will be available Tuesday from 7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. and from 7:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Register at http://sedc.unl.edu/clinic/2018clinic.asp Get charged for the 31 st Annual Best in the West Drill & Blast Conference at the Spearfish Holiday Inn and Convention Center in Spearfish, South Dakota, April 18-20, hosted by the Northern Plains Chapter and Black Hills Chapter of the International Society of Explosives Engineers. Off-site events on Wednesday include the Paul Muehl Memorial Clay Shoot, Bob Martin Memorial Golf Scramble, and Crazy Horse Mountain Tour. All start at 7:30 a.m. The exhibit hall supplier booths open at noon, the regulatory session and panel discussion run from 1:00 - 5:00 p.m., and the primer hour with refreshments is from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. The exhibit hall of vendors is open again Thursday, from 7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Education and technical sessions are from 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., with the booster hour starting at 5:30 p.m. The annual awards banquet and live scholarship auction will begin at 6:30 p.m. Friday has the exhibits open from 7:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m., technical sessions from 8:00 a.m. - noon, followed by lunch and door prizes. Don’t miss it! Go to www.bitwconference.org Where are you planning to go? How about including these shows: Join WWDR W R See more events at www.worldwidedrillingresource.com online issue. Oil/Water Exploration by Harold White There are a lot of gas and oil companies around the world, exploring onshore and under the oceans offshore. Exploring is time-consuming and costly. A lot of drilling and core sampling efforts do not always result in a positive way. Years can go into this type of exploration with no great success. I am writing this in a local restaurant, where the waitress, Debbie, knows very little about me, except that I drill wells. She asked what I was doing, so I told her I was writing an article for WWDR . When she wanted to know what it was about, I told her gas and oil exploration and how easy it is for me and how hard it is for others to do the research and drilling. I said I would know the day I got to an area if the location had gas, oil, water, etc., and if it was of great value. I could set the drill sites over several levels of whatever fluid someone was looking for. This is done with unbelievable accuracy and con- cern. I enjoy going to other states and countries and helping in some way. There are many places out there to explore. I would be glad to search a site where there was trouble finding any fluid when drilling. My latest discovery is finding saltwalter carrying lithium. Harold Harold White may be contacted via e-mail to michele@worldwidedrillingresource.com