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Are you Planning to go?...................................................14 Breaking News..................................................................13 Classifieds: WorldWide Buyers’ Guide™..............43-56 Education Connection......................................................22 Fun Page...........................................................................11 Hot Off the Press.................................................................9 Obituary: Green, Gene.....................................................16 Obituary: Straw, Duane Lewis.........................................17 Obituary: Utter, Timothy C. “Tim”....................................17 Obituary: Wittenborn, Isaac Ray.....................................16 Photo Page........................................................................35 Product Spotlight..............................................................26 Who’s in the News............................................................13 WorldWide Association Memberships................................27 WorldWide .........6 Acker Drill Company.............................................................3 Allegheny Instruments........................................................34 Armstrong Machine Co., Inc. (AMCI)..................................33 Atlantic Screen & Manufacturing, Inc. (ASI)........................10 Baker Water Systems.........................................................15 Better Water Industries Inc..................................................38 Bit Brokers International.....................................................32 Bitco, Inc.............................................................................31 Bloom Manufacturing, LLC.................................................18 Drill King International.........................................................39 Drilling Equipment Sales, Inc. (DES)....................................2 Drilling Supply & Mfg (DSM)...............................................37 GEFCO (BAUER Equipment America, Inc.)........................55 GeoPro, Inc.........................................................................35 Geoprobe Systems®..............................................................1 Geothermal Supply Company, Inc. (GSC)..........................23 Heron Instruments, Inc.......................................................40 Hole Products.....................................................................26 Horizon Hoist......................................................................53 Infinity Tool Manufacturing....................................................4 Infinity Tool Manufacturing..................................................36 KS Bit, Inc...........................................................................54 Louisiana Ground Water Association (LGWA) Conv.............8 Mills Machine Company, Inc...............................................13 Moab Bit and Tool Company, Inc.........................................42 N&N Drilling Supply.............................................................25 New England Water Well Association (NEWWA) Expo.......21 North Carolina Ground Water Association……….............24 Pacific Northwest Ground Water Exposition.......................12 Palmer Bit Company.............................................................7 SEMCO, Inc........................................................................56 Specialty Rig Sales (SRS)..................................................28 Star Iron Works, Inc. - Construction....................................17 Star Iron Works, Inc. - Water Well.......................................16 TDH Manufacturing Inc.......................................................20 Tennessee Water Well Assoc. (TWWA) Annual Mtg..........19 Texas Ground Water Association (TGWA) Convention.......41 Underground Infrastructure Conference (UIC)....................29 Well-Vu, Inc.........................................................................30 Wyo-Ben, Inc........................................................................9 Advertisers Featured Editorial C&G - Construction/Geotechnical ENV - Environmental G&O - Shallow Gas and Oil MIN - Mining DIR - Horizontal Directional Drilling EXB - Exploration/Blasthole GEO - Geothermal WTR - Water January 2024 - Products for Today’s Drilling Professional C&G DIR ENV EXB G&O GEO MIN WTR Mapping Information to Reduce Utility Damages......29 What’s Shaping the Future of Equipment.......................36 Wilson, Jr., Robert Evans: The Un-Comfort Zone II...11,14 MWD and Why it’s Important..........................................12 Simplify HDD Drill Tooling Configurations......................35 How Does a GUS Sampler Work?..............................8 Storkson, Britt: It’s the Computer’s Fault.................31 Scientists Study Carbon Dioxide Sequestration in....36 E-News Flash Readers’ Choice Readers’ Choice: Preliminary Design....38 Funding for Tribal Nations to Address Legacy...........40 New Tool for More Precise Drilling and Blasting.........25 Battersby, Mark E.: Drilling Into Money Not Boring..28 Exploration Plans Approved.......................................30 Exploration Project Set to Begin in Imperial County...32 Why Use PDC Bits?.....................................................21 First-of-its-Kind Collaboration....................................33 Connor, Tim: Consequences....................................41,42 New Tool for Modeling the Viability of Closed-Loop...23 Geothermal Competition Gets Underway..................24 New Surface Test Mine for Future Drilling Innovations...10 Smith, Billy Bob: The “Idiots” Corner........................22 Mining Industry Requests University Support in the UK..39 Peterson, Ronald: Drilling Fluid Maintenance I..........7 New Rig to Drill 300 Boreholes in Four Years............15 Understanding Bit Types for Water Well Drilling...18-19 Rasmussen, Tim: Water for Life International..........34 A.Y. McDonald Mfg. Co......10 Aardvark Packers..............10 Acker Drill Company..........10 Atlantic Screen & Mfg.,Inc...11 Bit Brokers International.....11 Centerline Mfg. Co.............11 ChemGrout®.......................14 Diedrich Drill......................14 Drill King International........15 Drill Pipe, Inc......................15 Drilling Equip. Resources..15 Eastern Driller Mfg. (EDM)...18 Eijkelkamp North America...18 Flomatic Corp....................18 Get Association Help™......19 Heisey Machine Co............19 Hole Products....................19 Merrill Manufacturing.........22 Mitsubishi Materials Corp...22 PennDrill Mfg.....................22 Star Iron Works, Inc...........23 T&T Carbide, Inc................23 VMAC................................26 Western Drilling Tools........23 Windmill 702 LLC...............26 WWDR.........................14,26 5 JANUARY 2024 WorldWide Drilling Resource®

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