WorldWide Drilling Rescource

36 OCTOBER 2019 WorldWide Drilling Resource ® Industry Announcements Grundfos Canada , the Canadian operation of the Danish-based pump manufacturer, recently held a ceremonial ground- breaking of a $3.5 million expansion at the firm’s Oakville, Ontario, headquarters, effectively doubling the warehousing capacity of its current site. The facility expansion will increase the company’s warehousing and service capabilities to 48,000 square feet. The expansion will also allow Grundfos to provide new skilled job and appren- ticeship opportunities for those living in the surrounding community. The expansion is expected to be complete by July 2020. Together with LKAB, a key Sustainable Intelligent Mining Systems (SIMS) project partner, Epiroc is introducing a new solution to installing long-term rock bolts in poor rock conditions. Epiroc worked hand in hand with a leading bolt and chemical supplier to create a bolting system addressing the issue. The result is an integrated, pumpable, two-component resin system which can be used with a Self-Drilling Anchor (SDA) style bolt in tougher ground conditions or alternately with a two-step hollow bolt in more moderate ground conditions. The integrated pumpable resin system from Epiroc is designed to be used on the mechanized bolting machines Boltec M and Boltec E models. Blackadar Insurance Company , turned 40 this year! During a dinner celebration to mark the anniversary, company Founder Don Blackadar and his wife Anne spoke to the Team about the company’s origin and how he would sell insurance in the morning while handling customer service and bookkeeping in the evening, until he was able to hire employees. One of those employees, Lorrie Partridge, became owner and president of the company. Lorrie thanked past and present employees for their contributions. She also reminded those in attendance, throughout all the changes in the past 40 years, one thing has remained, the need for insurance and quality customer service. With the Team the company has assembled, the future looks bright and successful for Blackadar Insurance Company. Keep the Airport Open Adapted from Information by Directional Technologies, Inc. How do you remediate beneath an active airport taxiway without interfering with commercial airliners and United States Air Force cargo planes crossing through your work area at 60 miles per hour? The Department of Defense (DoD) was faced with this exact problem at a site impacted with jet fuel. Since 1992, active remediation of jet fuel plumes at a joint international airport and Air Force base in the Southeast has been ongoing. The majority of nonaque- ous phase liquid (NAPL) from the subsurface has been removed by a free product recovery system consisting of recovery trenches and vertical recovery wells. However, residual contamination resulting in dissolved concentrations of jet fuel chemicals above the state regulator’s cleanup criteria were still present beneath the taxiway and aircraft parking areas. To address the remaining dissolved hydrocarbon concentrations, installation of an ozone / air sparge system was suggested with vertical sparging points, but the proposed vertical system would limit the use of the taxiway and aircraft parking areas. Since the project needed a solution with minimal disturbance to site operations, FPM Remediations, Inc. proposed an alternative plan using horizontal biosparging wells to remediate the target area. In areas of historic free product occurrence, a total of three horizontal biosparging wells were installed just above a clay layer to depths of approximately 17 feet. The goal of the horizontal wells was to influence a lateral distance of 30-40 feet with oxygenated groundwater, which would stimulate bacterial growth in the subsurface for biodegradation of residual chemicals of concern. The three horizontal wells were constructed with 180-320 feet of three-inch diameter high-density polyethylene (HDPE) well screen designed with longitudinal slotting at custom spacing, and the remediation system was comprised of a trailer- enclosed air compressor. Based on previous experience with FPM at similar sites, Directional Technologies was selected to carry out horizontal environmental directional drilling and horizontal biosparge well installation. The horizontal well paths went underneath the active taxiway and aircraft parking area to the target air delivery locations. To conduct work at the site, FPM performed months of coordination with the DoD and Federal Aviation Administration prior to mobilization. Site access permits, worker security clearances, as well as specialized worker training and certifications were required to access the aircraft taxiway and other secured areas. While the environmental directional drilling was being performed, the taxiway was never shut down, so air traffic continued to move freely at the site, satisfying the requirements of the DoD. DIR