17 SEPTEMBER 2023 WorldWide Drilling Resource® Providing Drilling Equipment for Over 120 Years Adapted from Information by Pennsylvania Drilling Company Pennsylvania Drilling Company’s history began during a period of industrial growth in the United States back in the early 1900s, as the country needed more accurate infor- mation about the earth, water sources, and heavier foundations. The company’s predecessor, the J. A. Brennan Drilling Co. was founded in 1900 in the Scranton-Wilkes Barre area in Pennsylvania. It was focused on coal drilling and mineral exploration. In 1915, the company moved its headquarters to Pittsburgh and changed its name to Pennsylvania Drilling Company. During this time, the company expanded into mineral exploration, large-diameter core drilling, foundation drilling, mine and borehole photography, mine grouting, and water well drilling. When 1947 rolled around, the company introduced a complete line of drilling tools and equipment under the name PennDrill. By 1950, it had developed “thin wall” diamond bits for masonry drilling and increased its line of tools for the rapidly growing soil mechanics and geotechnical industries. In the 1980s, the company added environmental and hazmat drilling for sampling and monitoring wells. This became a significant portion of the drilling business and continues today. It was 1989, when PennDrill moved to its current manufacturing location in McKees Rocks, and began expanding its manufacturing capabilities with CNC (computer numerically controlled) lathes and a CNC vertical machining center. By 2007, the manufacturing side of the company was expanding so much, the company decided to move its central offices and contract drilling division to Imperial, near Pittsburgh. A couple years later in 2009, the company acquired manufacturing and fabrication facilities in Woodstock, Virginia, for the manufacture of Colcrete, high-shear colloidal grouting equipment, material silos, and construction tooling for the heavy civil and foundation industries. The division was moved to Winchester, Virginia, in 2012. Pennsylvania Drilling Company acquired the Colcrete Limited company in the U.K. and expanded its presence to Europe in 2021. Today, the McKees Rocks location manufactures micropile threaded pipe, subs, adapters, drill rods, duplex head adapters, casing shoes, and geotechnical tooling. They also sell hammers, bits, monitoring well supplies, PVC casing, screens, Kennametal bits and teeth, bentonite products, and foundation drilling products. The Winchester location manufactures large-diameter caisson tooling, soil mixing tools, continuous flight augers, high shear colloidal grout plants with the Colcrete mill, and portable cement silos. This location is also one of the company’s rental equipment locations offering grout plants, silos, casing, core barrels, rock augers, and muck buckets, along with Kennametal and Betek foundation teeth, bits, and products. C&G eranhenderson@gmail.com New & Used Tricones PDCs Drag & Claw Bits Drill Collars Bit Tipping Subs & Stabilizers HDD Bits & Reamers DTH Hammer & Bits Custom Fabrication Junk Mills / Fishing Tools Rod Henderson 661-201-6259 Eran Henderson 661-330-0790
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