Reality is a prime contributor to our rig engineering team. We listen to our customers. We evaluate the well challenges, choosing equipment and system specifications required to drill wells of today and tomorrow.

Increasingly, customers are drilling longer and more challenging directional wells. We are meeting that need with greater hole-cleaning capacities and torque. Equally important, we make sure that our crews are trained to help our customers fully capitalize on these improvements. Today's drillers work in a noise- and vibration-free, climate-controlled cabin where traditional feedback on the well is replaced by digital instrumentation. Northern provides training on how to identify, diagnose, and correct common drilling problems using today's instrumentation and technology. Our objective is to achieve optimum performance.

Simply put, meeting the needs of our customers drives everything we do.