WorldWide Drilling Resource

31 WorldWide Drilling Resource ® APRIL 2019 Celebrating a Century of Service The management and staff of WorldWide Drilling Resource ® would like to congratulate the following companies for celebrating 100 years of service to the drilling industry. Cummins, Inc. Clessie Cummins and his business partner William G. Irwin founded Cummins, Inc. in Columbus, Indiana. Inspired by the creation of the diesel engine, Cummins began adapting the diesel engine for multiple applications. His engine company would become a pioneer of diesel motors. Cummins, Inc. continues to lead in inno- vation through advances the company has made in clean diesel and natural gas tech- nology while researching the potential for electrification and other low-carbon alternatives. “Our employees tackle challenges every day, and to celebrate our centennial, we want to say, thank you to each of them and their families. Thank you for be- lieving in our mission to power a more prosperous world and living our values each day,” said Tom Linebarger company chairman and CEO. Although the world has changed a lot in the past 100 years, one thing has remained the same, and that is Cummins’ committment to Challenge the Impossible . Halliburton Erle P. Halliburton said getting hired and later fired from Perkins Oil Well Cementing were the best things to have happened to him. He and his wife Vida moved to the booming new fields around Burkburnett, Texas, to find work cementing wells with his new and improved method. Halliburton, starting with a borrowed pump, a wagon, a mule team, and a wooden mixing box, called his enterprise the New Method Oil Well Cementing Company. Several months later, he reorganized as the Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Company (HOWCO). Although he started the company with his innovative cementing process, it was the company’s venture into hy- draulic fracturing which transformed his company into a global oilfield services leader. In 1949, Halliburton per- formed its first commercial hydraulic fracturing job on an oil well. Today, the Halliburton Production Enhancement product service line has the largest global presence among the company’s fourteen product service lines. In 2012, Halliburton introduced Frac of the Future, a new approach to hydraulic fracturing. The company is currently working to reduce each job’s footprint and emissions through its use of advances in pumping design, sand delivery, and pump monitoring. Gordon & Sons Water Well Drilling began when Tom Gordon and his son Roy were dri l l ing oi l wells and noticed the need for water well drilling in the Michigan area. The family business continued to thrive as Roy and his son Glen, became the next generation to run the company. Eventually, Glen and his son Butch took over. Throughout the past 100 years, the steam-powered, horse-drawn rigs used in the beginning evolved into gasoline engines pulled by tractors, and ultimately into the modern diesel engines used now. Today Butch, his son Phil, and granddaughter Nicole represent the fourth, fifth, and sixth generations of Gordon & Sons Water Well Drilling Inc. proudly serving southeast Michigan. Photo of Clessie Cummins courtesy of Cummins, Inc. Notes from the Groundwater Guy by Thomas E. Ballard, P.G., C.H.G. Southeast Hydrogeology, PLLC The True Cost of a Well When most people think of the cost of a well, they usually only consider the cost to drill and con- struct the well, and contracts for new wells are often bid accordingly. However, the true cost of a well is actually what it costs over its useful life. This includes not only the initial cost of drilling and constructing the well, but also periodic maintenance, rehabilitation, and repairs. When viewed correctly, the most cost-effective well over its useful life span is not necessarily the well which had the low- est cost to install in the first place. As a matter of fact, going for the least expensive well construction often results in a more expensive well over its life span. Using lower cost mild steel for casing means the well is more subject to cor- WTR Ballard cont’d on page 36.