August 14, 2012 08:00 - August 15, 2012 04:30

Detailed Course Description

The Horizontal Directional Drilling course is offered as a 2-day course that covers Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) operation with complete technical information on the design, permitting, construction bid documents, specifications, and construction of HDD applications. The course is geared to provide an in depth overview of HDD from planning to demobilization.


Day 1: time 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.
Day 2: time 8:00 am to 4:00 pm.

Continental breakfast and lunch included

To provide contractors, engineers, inspectors and others working in the trenchless industry with complete technical information on the design, permitting, construction bid documents, specifications, and construction of HDD applications. The course focus will be on HDD implementations with steel pipelines and municipal natural gas utilities, and will also include coverage of the HDD Model Footage Contract, providing guidelines for HDD projects, example specifications, and information on risk reduction. The course will also provide design calculations with examples using a HDD computer application.

All pipeline, utility and consulting engineers, superintendents, contractors, inspectors and other technical individuals with the responsibility of managing, operating, or maintaining pipeline, trunk or distribution systems.

Course materials

Evaluation copy of Pipeline Toolbox program with HDD application.

David Willoughby
David Willoughby is a Director, Energy & Corrosion for Rummel, Klepper & Kahl, a consulting engineering firm headquartered in Baltimore, MD and author of the book Horizontal Directional Drilling. He has 26 years of experience in engineering, technical writing, and management in the natural gas, petroleum and pipeline industry. He is registered by the Council of Engineering Specialty Boards as a Petroleum Operations Engineer.
Mr. Willoughby serves as the Project Manager for several major pipeline projects that include many HDD applications and has performed HDD consulting and designs on numerous water body and road crossings.

$ 1,695.00 (USD)