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Breaking News ..................................................................13 Buyers Meet Sellers .................................................37-50 Classified Section: WorldWide SUPER MART™ ..................73-88 Education Connection ......................................................64 Hot Off the Press - Sponsored by Aries Industries, Inc. ..9 Obituary: Hedquist, Vernon Carl “Vern” .........................20 Obituary: Jaswell, III, Roy P. “Trippy” ..............................66 Obituary: Thacker, Jr., William McKinley “Bill” ..............20 Photo Gallery ...........................................................56,59,72 Product Spotlight ..............................................................35 Where are you planning to go? ........................................16 Who’s in the News .............................................................13 WorldWide Association Memberships ................................51 WorldWide Business Directory™ ..................................10,11 WorldWide .........6 WorldWide Service Center™ ...............................................72 C&G DIR ENV EXB G&O GEO MIN WTR Allegheny Instruments........................................................35 America West Drilling Supply..............................................85 AMS, Inc.............................................................................29 Aries Industries, Inc..............................................................9 Armstrong Machine Co., Inc. (AMCI)..................................52 Atlantic Screen & Manufacturing, Inc. (ASI)........................12 Baker Water Systems.........................................................13 Baroid Industrial Drilling Products (IDP)..............................18 BESTOLIFE ® Corporation...................................................63 Better Water Industries, Inc.................................................36 Bit Brokers International.....................................................31 Bitco, Inc.............................................................................19 Bloom Mfg., Inc...................................................................16 Blue Demon Company, Inc.................................................63 Boshart Industries...............................................................70 Central Mine Equipment Company (CME)..........................34 Diedrich Drill.......................................................................21 Drill King International.........................................................58 Drill Pipe, Inc.......................................................................28 Drilling Equipment Sales, Inc. (DES)..................................87 Drilling Supply & Mfg (DSM)...............................................62 DRILLMAX ® ..........................................................................2 East West Machinery & Drilling….......…………..................12 Eastern Driller Manufacturing Company Inc. (EDM)...........53 Eijkelkamp/SonicSampDrill.................................................22 Filmark Products, Inc..........................................................64 Flomatic Corporation..........................................................86 Foremost Industries............................................................57 GEFCO, Inc. (an Astec Industries Company).....................27 GEFCO, Inc. (an Astec Industries Company).....................88 Geoprobe Systems ® ............................................................71 Headwater Companies.......................................................17 Infinity Tool Manufacturing....................................................3 Jentech Drilling Supply, Inc.................................................72 KS Bit, Inc...........................................................................61 MARL Technologies, Inc.....................................................19 Mills Machine Company, Inc...............................................33 N&N Drilling Supply.............................................................69 Palmer Bit Company...........................................................65 Pioneer Sands LLC.............................................................32 PUL-A-PUMP ® of PA, Inc....................................................36 Qwater Well Development Tools.........................................24 REICHdrill ® .........................................................................30 Rex McFadden Ltd.............................................................55 SEMCO, Inc..........................................................................1 SIMCO ® Drilling Equipment...................................................4 Sonic Drill Corporation........................................................59 Star Iron Works, Inc..............................................................7 Star Iron Works, Inc............................................................56 T&T Carbide, Inc.................................................................26 TDH Manufacturing Inc.......................................................25 Throop Rock Bit Company..................................................23 Well-Vu, Inc.........................................................................66 Wyo-Ben, Inc......................................................................15 Advertisers Featured Editorial: C&G - Construction/Geotechnical ENV - Environmental G&O - Shallow Gas and Oil MIN - Mining DIR - Horizontal Directional Drilling EXB - Exploration/Blasthole GEO - Geothermal WTR - Water Wire, Jeremy C.: Tales from the Field......................12 E-News Flash E-News Flash Readers’ Choice Readers’ Choice : The Importance of..52 A Fantastic Drilling & Foundations Event..............56,72 Celebrating 80 Years in the Heavy-Haul Trailer Ind...67 Battersby, Mark E.: Drilling Into Money Not Boring.....23 Can Directional Drilling Advance Infrastructure?.......35 White, Harold: Oil/Water Exploration..............................24 Kwader, Thomas: Environmental Monitoring...........31 Canada’s Search for Nuclear Storage Site Underway..63 Connor, Tim: Tips.........................................................27 New Innovation Award for the Mining Industry..........64 How to Read an Explosives License Number............69 Storkson, Britt: Respecting Our Computational Limits...19 Awardees Announced for Reservoir Data Acq.....59,66 Wilson, Jr., Robert Evans: The Un-Comfort Zone II...8 A Win-Win for Cornell University...............................28 Overcoming Natural Calamaties...............................32 American Helium Increases Drilling Activity..............15 “Smith, Billy Bob”: The “Idiot’s” Corner..................55 Frequently-Used Geological Terms Part 76..................63 Make Plans to Attend bauma 2019...........................70 SEMCO Goes BIG!.....................................................7 Ballard, Thomas E.: Notes from the Groundwater Guy..29 Kuebelbeck, Jim: Through the Back Door!..............36 Rasmussen, Tim: Water For Life International........60 bauma Munich 2019...........................................................14 Empire StateWater Well DrillersAssoc. (ESWWDA)Ann. Mtg..67 Energy Exposition...............................................................54 Michigan Ground Water Assoc. (MGWA) Conference........60 Minnesota Water Well Assn (MWWA) Conv. and Trade Show...20 Mountain States Ground Water Expo.................................24 Oklahoma Ground Water Association (OGWA) Conf..........64 Texas Ground Water Association (TGWA) Convention.......32 Underground Construction Technology (UCT) Conf……....68 Utah Ground Water Association (UGWA) Conf and Expo.....8 Trade Shows 5 WorldWide Drilling Resource ® DECEMBER 2018