Mission Objectives

Mission Objectives

Now, let’s be clear: providing a well for a client is more than just drilling a hole in the ground and shoving some pipes in below the water table.

Even after the hole is drilled, the casing is in place, and the appropriate screen is selected and installed, the well driller still has the responsibility to assure the owner that his well will produce at maximum capacity for as long as possible.

Up to this point, the driller’s knowledge and equipment are sufficient to do the job.

But to develop and complete a well to its maximum potential, he needs skills that only talent and experience can provide.

The concept of well development is not complex.

It simply involves the steps necessary to get the water from the aquifer to the well in the simplest possible path.

In unconsolidated formations, this means concentrating the coarsest gravel next to the well screen, and increasing the fineness of the gravel as the distance from the well increases until it is roughly the same as the aquifer.

Thus, the water flows more freely the closer it is to the well.

In consolidated formations, well development is achieved by ensuring that fractures flow freely, or even by artificially increasing fractures.