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6 NOVEMBER 2017 WorldWide Drilling Resource ® Attention Advertisers/Potential Advertisers! Are you taking advantage of WWDR ’s FREE editorial coverage? Check out your 2018 Marketing Guide for our editorial calendar and submit your article ideas, press releases, and announcements today. January’s focus is fluids , lubricants , grout , and grouters , so if you have products or information you want to share with the WWDR world, send it to bonnie@worldwidedrillingresource.com .  Don’t delay . . . January’s deadline is November 15. Need a 2018 Marketing Guide? No problem, just give us a call at 850-547-0102. Proudly Made in the United States of America - delivered WorldWide ! WorldWide Drilling Resource ® The complete magazine for the drilling industry worldwide, owned by drilling industry associates dedicated to bringing the most up-to-date technology and information to subscribers. Covering construction-geotechnical , directional , environmental , exploration-blasthole , shallow gas & oil, geothermal, mining , water well , irrigation , wastewater ; from bits, to pumps, to rigs, to tanks, through wire and more - whatever it takes to get the drilling job completed ! Managing Publisher/CEO/President: Veronica I. “Ronnie” Jones Vice President: Troy Cunningham Chief Marketing Officer: Ed Moranski Office Administrator: Michele Stevens Editor: Bonnie Love Associate Editor: Caleb Whitaker Public Relations Professionals: Kathy Heinrich Jan Allen Production/Webmaster: Marcel Schimpf Representative: Marie Cunningham Editorial Contributors for this month: Tom Ballard Mark Battersby Tim Connor Jim Kuebelbeck Thomas Kwader Tim Rasmussen Ashish Rathi “Billy Bob Smith” Britt Storkson Harold White Robert Evans Wilson, Jr. Jeremy Wire Hyd/Eng Consultant: Thomas Kwader, Ph.D.,P.G. Consultant: Mary Ann Pelletier * Editorial contributions & advertisements include statements of fact and opinions that are the sole responsibility of the author and/or companies and do not necessarily imply any opinion of the owners, management, or staff of WorldWide Drilling Resource ® . Images may have been altered for clarity. Complete advertising information may be found at: www.worldwidedrillingresource.com or by calling 850-547-0102. WorldWide Drilling Resource ® makes every effort not to place advertisements for “like” products on the same page in our publication; this may occur however, due to size and space within the publication. We regret any inconvenience this may cause our advertisers. WorldWide Drilling Resource ® i s published monthly by WorldWide Drilling Resource, Inc., a Florida Corporation PO Box 660 (3089 Northride Lane) Bonifay FL 32425-0660. Telephone: 850-547-0102 Fax: 850-547-0329 E-mail: wwdr@worldwidedrillingresource.com Website: www.worldwidedrillingresource.com Copyright 2017, WorldWide Drilling Resource, Inc. Seen by countless WorldWide. Publication Agreement No. 40892520. Back issues may be requested. Cost per issue $10.00 USD. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any manner without the strict written consent of the publishers. Advertising rates furnished upon request. Editorial contributions are welcome subject to editorial review.* WorldWide Dr i ll ing Resource ® reserves the right to refuse any advertisement . We Recycle Life is full of surprises ~ Donnie at DRILLMAX ® surely had a surprised look on his face as Jan and I arrived at their manufacturing facility in Ocala last month enroute to Miami for The Water Expo. As a matter of fact his exact words were, “To what do we owe this surprise?”. We were greeted by smile after smile. Ali, his new assistant, is a very pleasant young lady to speak with and sharp as a tack with her job! Donnie gave us a guided tour of the faciity and outlined the many facets of DRILLMAX ® as well as some of their plans for the future. Now you get a chance to see some of DRILLMAX ® from behind the WWDR camera! We Will See you on the trail! No frowners allowed! Ronnie, Managing Publisher ronnie@ worldwidedrillingresource.com With pen (computer) in hand... Fortunately for us, this was the week before Hurricane IRMA. Ronnie’s Real World has gone a hiatis to allow our editors to use the space for our valued writers and advertisers. Hot Topic for November 2017 ~ Horizontal Directional drilling World’s First Hybrid HDD Rig - Page 15 Increase the Life Expectancy of your HDD Pipe - Page 38 Correction: The September 2017 issue page 4 “History Articles featured this month include” listing incorrectly identified Blast Hole Bit Company, Inc.