When Solomon Gebre Yohannes was 18 years old in the mid-1980s, he traveled to Ethiopia’s northern region to work on a water well rig. As Solomon remembers it, the region was crippled from drought and war. People in a shelter had as little as a cup of water per person per day. Born from that … Read more
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When Solomon Gebre Yohannes was 18 years old in the mid-1980s, he traveled to Ethiopia’s northern region to work on a water well rig. As Solomon remembers it, the region was crippled from drought and war. People in a shelter had as little as a cup of water per person per day. Born from that … Read more
KLR Ethio Water Well Drilling PLC opened for business in 2005 with the intention of becoming a new player in the water well drilling business in Ethiopia. As KLR’s General Manager Fekadu Debalkie Alemayehu put it, “There’s a lot of opportunity here.” Fekadu said, “We are a country of 80 million people. Of those, 85 … Read more
As Ethiopia’s industrial base has grown, so has Hagbes to support that growth, becoming a leader in consumer retail and business-to-business commerce in the 60 years since its founding. The company sells everything from home furnishings and appliances to trucks and mining and construction equipment. Over … Read more
Tesfaya Tessema was educated as a hydrogeologist. His master’s thesis, attached below, focused on the state of the ground water situation in Ethiopia. His paper “Practical Problems In Water Well Drilling And Pumping Test Analysis In Ethiopia” has been published online through the Ethiopian government and is now available for download below. For more information … Read more
Poland’s Oil and Gas Exploration Company Krakow, or Nafta Krakow for short has been exploring the country’s vast shale gas resources for about five years now. Recoverable reserves there were estimated by Poland’s Geological Institute in a March 2012 report to be as high as 1.9 trillion cubic meters, which is about the same … Read more
The dense gray dust clouds that rose up from the super single tires drifted little before settling back down on what should have been an Indiana cornfield. The farmer who owned the section reported a 3 bushel per acre yield this year, far from enough to justify the cost of planting it. However, an … Read more
Western Kentucky is known for its ample supply of coal. Although it might seem unusual to see an Atlas Copco TH60 water well rig at work in a coal mine, Armstrong Coal Company has found it valuable in starting up its two new mines. Classified as a water well drill, Atlas Copco’s TH60DH (deep hole) … Read more
Things are looking up for the drilling market in the Green Bay region of Wisconsin, but Hintzke Well Drilling Inc. of New London soberly recalls how a series of threats these past few years seemed to conspire against them. There was the recession of 2008. Then came the incessant rains and widespread flooding in the … Read more
“Today’s oil and gas drillers care less about cost and more about value,” said Kevin Mallin, an internationally respected consultant in deep hole drilling, during a seminar for Atlas Copco sales and service reps. Mallin selected the words carefully, clearly articulating the bottom line of deep hole drilling businesses: “They want to drill smarter.” The … Read more
In northwest Russia, about 120 km north of the Arkhangelsk region in the Verkhotina license area, an Atlas Copco T3W water well rig is hard at work. When traveling to the mine through rigid, demanding terrain (often covered in multiple inches of snow dependent upon the time of year) it’s evident that you’re traveling to … Read more
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