Made another half dozen calls to PA well drillers and hit pay dirt ... after a fashion.
Got a call back from a guy @ Book & Proch.
Large firm, 60 employees, has a geologist on staff, does a lot of drilling and well development for municipalities and large commercial firms.
No longer does work in Ohio, just too busy with more local stuff.
Teaches at the local college and was a speaker "at the winter conference" ? (NGWA maybe)
Agreed with my take on the educational level and technical expertise on some of the drillers in the industry ... a lot of
"one man band" drilling outfits ... who are doing things
"the way Pappy always used to do it" ... and see little to no need to keep up with the times and changing technology.
Got into some real specifics of how they would approach well rehab and for this area frac'ing wouldn't be it.
As Peter kind of alluded to, they had a frac'ing rig ($300K invested) and ended up selling it as it was not all that effective for the strata they typically work in. More effective as you go east (hard rock) ... and probably worse as you go west (Ohio)
Got the name of one firm from him located in Mansfield that he said was pretty competent. About an hour away. Reached out to them and made contact, guy I spoke to is pulling up info for local wells in the area and will give me a call back.
Also got the name of two firms to specifically avoid ...
