Tag Archives: HDD
Utility Strike (Unmarked) Ruins Everyone’s Day
A utility strike represents one of the most common ways a horizontal directional drilling (HDD) project can quickly turn south. …
Horizontal Soil Sampling
Volume 8, Issue #5 – May 2022 One question we hear frequently: Can you soil sample using HDD? Unlike with…
Cold Weather and Hard Ground
It’s hard to imagine anyone more ready for the onset of warm spring weather than folks working in the field….
How to “Develop” an SVE Well
Volume 8, Issue #3 – March 2022 If you’ve ever installed a vertical soil vapor extraction (SVE) well, you enjoyed…
Limited Access – Not Always About Space
Generally, when we think of the term “limited access” as it pertains to a drilling project we think of “tight…
Horizontal SubSlab SVE Challenges
Ellingson-DTD recently installed a single horizontal subslab SVE well at an active industrial manufacturing facility in the upper Midwest. The…
Double-Ended Sometimes the Only Option
Ellingson-DTD crews recently completed a series of double-ended horizontal Air Sparge (AS and Soil Vapor Extraction (SVE) wells at an…
Discrete Soil Sampling Using HDD
DTD Crews recently completed a unique site characterization project. Field work involved the use of horizontal directional drilling (HDD) for…
24″ and 30″ Diameter Pipelines in Permian
DTD crews have recently completed several large diameter pipeline installations for a road crossing in the Permian basin. Meanwhile, similar…