Drilling Mud

Ditch Witch, Heavy Equipment Colleges of America to boost workforce development with new HDD training

Course materials cover everything from proper PPE and jobsite preparation to the importance of traffic control and equipment inspection procedures. Participants will receive hands-on training in mud mixing and drilling, along with HDD tracking and locating.

Gordon Technologies announces deployment of its 150th MWD system

(UC) — Gordon Technologies LLC has deployed its 150th patented, high-performance measurement-while-drilling (MWD) system in the United States. Gordon introduced the GT-MWD standard temperature system in 2017 and its first GT-Heat-Miser high temperature MWD system, which is now capable of operating at temperatures up to 190°C, in 2018.

Business Shorts - October 2015

LMK Technologies On August 24, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) ruled in favor of LMK Technologies, declining institution of inter parts reviews on two petitions filed by BLD Services. The decisions were issued in IPR2015-00723 (Paper 7) and IPR2015-00721 ..