Overburden Drilling with Ring Bit System - Here Comes The Foam.MOV

Running a GeoRocFor 10" Retrievable Ring Bit System, we're drilling 10" casing into an old pond that has been filled with gravel, 1/4" to 3" in diameter. The gravel/pit run is incredibly porous and the driller decided to run drilling foam (QuikFoam, AQ2 Foamer - Baroid) in order to try to take up some of the space. It was giving us a hard time for the entire bore. After this well, we switched to traditional casing hammer drilling.

The bore hole is one of three total for the Town of Wilkeson in Washington State, USA. All three are expected to only go 30 to 40 feet deep (very shallow) to allow the town to tap the bottom of an existing surface water right.

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• Overburden Drilling
• 650WS
• Wilkeson WA
• JKA Well Drilling