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Breaking News ..................................................................13 Buyers Meet Sellers .................................................35-48 Classified Section: WorldWide SUPER MART™ ..................66-80 Dealmakers ........................................................................62 Education Connection ......................................................31 Fun Page ............................................................................58 Hot Off the Press .................................................................9 Industry Announcements .................................................30 Obituary: Cuda, Richard Sebastian “Dick” .....................25 Obituary: Dolby, Randall Lawrence “Randy” .................25 Obituary: Freeman, David Thomas “Dave” ....................65 Obituary: Henckel, Torger Anders ...................................25 Obituary: Shama, Timothy “Tim” .....................................25 Photo Gallery .................................................................28,55 Product Spotlight ..............................................................22 Where are you planning to go? ........................................60 Who’s in the News .............................................................13 WorldWide Association Memberships ................................27 WorldWide Business Directory™ .............................10,11,12 WorldWide .........6 Editorial Focus for December - Thank-You and What’s New for 2020 C&G DIR ENV EXB G&O GEO MIN WTR Aardvark Packers...............................................................14 Allegheny Instruments........................................................50 AMS, Inc.............................................................................63 Armstrong Machine Co., Inc. (AMCI)..................................65 Atlantic Screen & Manufacturing, Inc. (ASI)........................62 Baker Water Systems.........................................................23 Baroid Industrial Drilling Products (IDP)…....……...............32 BESTOLIFE ® Corporation...................................................60 Better Water Industries, Inc.................................................22 Bit Brokers International.....................................................31 Bitco, Inc.............................................................................18 Bloom Mfg., Inc.....................................................................9 Boshart Industries...............................................................57 CONEXPO-CON/AGG ® ......................................................20 Diedrich Drill…....................................................................24 Drill King International...........................................................8 Drilling Equipment Sales, Inc. (DES)..................................79 Drilling Supply & Mfg (DSM)...............................................29 DRILLMAX ® ..........................................................................2 Eastern Driller Manufacturing Company Inc. (EDM)...........78 Eijkelkamp/SonicSampDrill.................................................77 Empire State Water Well Drillers Assoc. (ESWWDA) Mtg...14 Flomatic ® Corporation.........................................................34 Foremost Industries............................................................26 GEFCO, Inc. (an Astec Industries Company).....................80 Geoprobe Systems ® ............................................................53 Headwater Companies, LLC...............................................15 Infinity Tool Manufacturing....................................................3 Jentech Drilling Supply, Inc.................................................51 KS Bit, Inc...........................................................................56 Louisiana Ground Water Assoc. (LGWA) Convention.........50 Merrill Mfg.............................................................................7 Mills Machine Company, Inc...............................................61 Moab Bit and Tool Company, Inc.........................................59 Mountain States Ground Water Expo.................................62 N&N Drilling Supply.............................................................13 Oklahoma Ground Water Assoc. (OGWA) Conference.......28 Palmer Bit Company...........................................................64 Rex McFadden Ltd.............................................................21 Seametrics..........................................................................49 SEMCO, Inc..........................................................................1 SIMCO ® Drilling Equipment...................................................4 Sonic Drill Corporation........................................................18 Star Iron Works, Inc............................................................16 Star Iron Works, Inc............................................................17 TDH Manufacturing Inc.......................................................54 Texas Ground Water Association (TGWA) Convention.......33 Underground Construction Technology (UCT) Conf……....52 Utah Ground Water Assoc. (UGWA) Conf. and Expo..........30 Virginia Water Well Assoc. (VWWA) Winter Conference.....19 Well-Vu, Inc.........................................................................58 Wyo-Ben, Inc......................................................................21 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 Storkson, Britt: Some Don’t Want Solutions...........18 A Tale of Two Spillways.............................................63 No-Cost Service Can Improve Workplace Safety........7 “Smith, Billy Bob”: The “Idiot’s” Corner..................34 Dispelling the Myths Surrounding Hydraulic Fracturing..51 Radioactive Wastes - The Public Remains Skeptical...21 Kwader, Thomas: Environmental Monitoring...........22 Reader’s Response..................................................31 Operating Blasthole Drills from 5000 Miles Away......14 World’s Longest Subsea Road Runnel in Norway.....17 Kuebelbeck, Jim: Through the Back Door!..............49 Senator Pleads for Royalty Relief on Shallow Water....16 Wilson, Jr., Robert Evans: The Un-Comfort Zone II...52,54 New Way to Capture Stranded Natural Gas..............59 Wire, Jeremy: Tales from the Field..........................12 Battersby, Mark E.: Drilling Into Money Not Boring..28 Drilling Completed for Geothermal Plant in the UK...50 Connor, Tim: Are your sales results not living up to..19,26 E-News Flash Readers’ Choice : Nesting Diamond....55 Ballard, Thomas: Notes from the Groundwater Guy.....23 White, Harold: Oil/Water Exploration.......................30 Are California’s Wildfires Contaminating Water?......33 Rasmussen, Tim: Water For Life International...57,58 5 WorldWide Drilling Resource ® DECEMBER 2019