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That concludes our tour of the INTEQ Drilling Technology
Exhibition. Of course we could not show you
all the drilling and evaluation tools our company offers
and sells. It is not possible, simply because technical
progress moves forward and we have to bring new
products faster and faster into the marketplace to keep
our leading position in the tough business which is
drilling for oil. Regardless of when the book appears, it
will always already be a little out of date. A complete
description of all our services and products would also
soon make this little book swell into a thick tome that
no one would want to read anymore.
For today, we hope that this book has given you a
few new insights into our company’s products to begin
with. We can be really proud of producing unique and
reliable high-tech products for a market with unprecedentedly
extreme requirements. The insides of many
of our drilling and evaluation systems look more like
spares for space satellites than components of a „drilling
machine“! And new developments continue to
drive us forwards. No doubt a new edition will be produced
one day which will inform you about the most
recent achievements in deep-hole drilling.
Until then, just ask if you don’t know quite how the
product functions which you are working on. Your colleagues
in the Engineering and Technical Services
Departments will be only too pleased to provide you
with the information you need.
With regard to colleagues: this book would never
have appeared without the unselfish assistance of
my colleagues. I would like to offer special thanks to
Detlef Hahn, Matthias Meister, Uli Hahne, Hartmut
Grünhagen, Roland May, Gerald Heisig and Brian Riley,
who have enriched the project with their constructive
criticism and technical knowledge.
Thank you very much!
Matthias Reich
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