WorldWide Drilling Resource®

6 FEBRUARY 2020 WorldWide Drilling Resource ® Proudly Made in the United States of America - delivered WorldWide ! WorldWide Drilling Resource 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 Editorial Contributor: Carol Schimpf 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 “Billy Bob Smith” Britt Storkson Harold White Robert Evans Wilson, Jr. 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.worldwidedrillingreso urce.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. Telepho ne: 850-547-0102 Fax: 850-547-0329 E-mail: wwdr@worldwidedrillingres ource.com Website: www .worldwidedrillingresource.c om Copyright 2020, 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 With pen (computer) in hand . . . Ronnie, Managing Publisher ronnie@worldwidedrillingresource.com 850-547-0102 Well, I thought the best way to start the New Year is to give you all our Solid Gold Smiles ~ or at least a reasonable facsimile thereof. As always, we are eagerly looking forward to another year doing what we do best - serving our friends in the drilling indus- try. That is what makes each of us smile from ear-to-ear each and every day. You are our family, and we will do whatever we can to help you do what you do best for your customers and this wonderful industry of drilling. If you are looking for a certain product, service, or even person in the drilling indus- try and are just having a hard time doing that - please pick up the phone and call 850-547-0102 and ask the WWDR Team, “where, what, or who”. I guarantee you will get the help you need as quickly as possible. And guess what else? You don’t owe us a dime for that information - because you called the one and only ~ WorldWide Drilling Resource ® . We say what we mean and do what we say. I guess you could say, our middle name is “Integrity”. Now onto the New Year. This NEW year has a bit of a change up for us with regards to some trade shows we have been attending since the founding of this company in 2003. While we have always gone out of our way to ensure full coverage for as many events as possible, and as they say “neither rain nor sleet, nor snow (and there has been some bad snow!) nor cancelled flights, kept us from covering those events”, what has happened came as quite a shock to us as much as it may now be for you to be reading it here. No, I won’t go into the details. Just know, this was not at the request or suggestion of the WWDR Team. From all of us here at WorldWide Drilling Resource ® , we will miss being with you, wish you all the best with your event, and pray things change next year so we can visit with those friends we missed this year.* KEEP SMILING! We Will See you on the trail! NEXT STOPS - Mountain States And Virginia *This was to be included in January - but space is some- times an issue. 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