WorldWide Drilling Resource

6 MAY 2018 WorldWide Drilling Resource ® 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 Todd Tannehill 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 2018, 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 Drilling Resource ® reserves the right to refuse any advertisement . We Recycle We Will See you on the trail! Keep That Smile! Ed@ Michele@ Kathy@ Caleb@ Marcel@ Jan@ Bonnie@ Troy@ worldwidedrillingresource.com Then and Now Wondering why this photo of a young “Ronnie” appears here this month? Read the article entitled The LIVELY LEGACY , and you will find out. Seeing the lady in that article, with her smiling family around her, makes me think yet again, about all the widows and widowers in our industry. In my younger days, as many of you today, I didn’t think about them. Not much anyway. Oh yeah, I would think about my grandmother and how she had lived so many years without Grandpa. But I never drove down the road and saw those homesteads and businesses that used to be so cared for and thriving when there were two of them - (him and her) - as I do these days. There must be eight or ten of us on my short stretch of road in rural Northwest Florida. I have been fortunate to be a part of this industry of drilling, the industry of registered cattle, and that of registered horses as well. Each one of those is similar to the other. How? The people are all caring, all sharing, all wanting to give, and asking for so little. In my role, I have enjoyed the friend- ships of those husbands and wives, and now the wives, to this day, are still my friends as they and I share a common thread ~ that of being a widow. Kinda makes one feel old. But in reality, there are even many young widows and widowers. So, I wonder if you know of any on your street, in your town, or anywhere? Why not call them or drop them a note, just to say “Hi, I’m thinking about you, and wanted you to know I care.” Home of Solid Gold Service ~ with a Smile!™ Accept NO imitations - there is only one true RESOURCE. With pen (computer) in hand... Ronnie, Managing Publisher ronnie@worldwidedrillingresource.com Featured Articles for May Drill Pipe Maintenance. Page 22 Drill Pipe Market Expects Increased Demand by 2025. Page 45 Friction Welding Creates High-Quality Drill Pipe. Page 46 Saving Arizona’s Sonoran Pronghorn with Flexible Drop Pipe. Page 29