13 SEPTEMBER 2024 WorldWide Drilling Resource® WHO’S IN THE NEWS Send your announcements to bonnie@worldwidedrillingresource.com Thiess Celebration In addition to celebrating its 90th Anniversary, Australian company Thiess is commemorating more than 3 million feet of autonomous drilling at its Mt. Arthur South operation in New South Wales. To reach this milestone, a fleet of three Cat MD-series drills running with the Cat MineStar™ Command Autonomous Drill System was used, allowing a remotely located operator to control the three drills simultaneously. Head of Autonomy and Operations Technology for Thiess Trent Smith said, “Working in partnership with WesTrac and Caterpillar, we took a drill that didn't have any automation capability and went on the journey as a team to bring through what is now three drills running autonomously with a single controller.” For more information, click on this box in our online issue. DFI Educational Trust The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust announced the creation of the William F. Loftus Memorial Scholarship Fund in memory of William F. “Bill” Loftus who passed away earlier this year. Bill was a DFI founder and the only DFI president to serve the organization twice in that role. The fund will provide scholarships to undergraduate and graduate civil engineering students in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Manhattan College, Bill’s alma mater.
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