Since 2003, HardRock Infrastructure Services has been taking on the kinds of projects others will not touch. What started with one man, one rig, and a pocketful of credit cards quickly evolved into one of the top providers of horizontal directional drilling (HDD) services in the United States.
[pdf] Drilling in the Permian Basin remains steady, based on figures from the latest Baker Hughes rig count. The report showed 303 oil and gas rigs were active in the basin of West Texas and southeast New Mexico. It was the highest count in all of the nation’s various shale plays.
[pdf] In hard rock mining and quarrying, this is achieved through a controlled process of drilling and blasting. A blast hole drill rig is a specialised piece of equipment that creates a series of holes in a specific pattern, depth, and diameter across a section of rock known as a “bench.”
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