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StraightLine entered the HDD market with the introduction of its line of DirectLine drills in 1989. In 1991 the company moved to a 36,000 sq ft (3,300 m 2). facility in Newton, Kansas, and opened a new 9,000-square-foot (840 m 2) engineering/technical support facility on the 13-acre (53,000 m 2) grounds.
Directional boring, also referred to as horizontal directional drilling (HDD), is a minimal impact trenchless method of installing underground utilities such as pipe, conduit, or cables in a relatively shallow arc or radius along a prescribed underground path using a surface-launched drilling rig. Directional boring offers significant ...
MSRC - Kansas City Southern Railway (former MidSouth Railcorp) MSRW - Mississippian Railway MSTL - Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway ; Chicago & North Western Railway ; Union Pacific
A 20-inch steel natural gas transmission pipeline was ruptured by a contractor for the gas company, and released natural gas near an intersection adjoining the Charter Pointe subdivision. A nearby directional drilling operation had hit and weakened the pipeline before the failure. One local resident was killed and one was injured in the explosion.
Kansas City’s future as a rail center was assured by the construction of the first bridge across the Missouri River on July 3, 1869, when this photograph was made. More than 30,000 persons ...
The Buffalo Bills ended the Kansas City Chiefs’ bid at an undefeated season Sunday, winning 30-21 in a battle of AFC contenders. Nursing a tenuous 23-21 lead late in the fourth quarter, Bills ...
Directional drilling (or slant drilling) is the practice of drilling non-vertical bores. It can be broken down into four main groups: oilfield directional drilling, utility installation directional drilling, directional boring (horizontal directional drilling - HDD), and surface in seam (SIS), which horizontally intersects a vertical bore ...
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