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25TH ANNUAL
DIRECTIONAL DRILLING SURVEY
Despite Challenges, HDD Market
Continues Impressive Growth
Robert Carpenter | Editor-in-Chief
In the horizontal directional drilling
(HDD) land of milk and honey, there
are still plenty of bees flying around.
The 25th Annual Underground Infrastructure
HDD Survey provides insight
into the complex, yet generally lucrative,
world of directional boring. Indeed,
HDD is a technology that continues to
expand to even further heights. It has
clearly demonstrated how the introduc31.2
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Telecommunications
Water
Gas distribution
Electric transmission/
distribution
1.8
Sewer
Oil/gas transmission
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Wind/solar
Other
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2020
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tion and development of this disruptive
technology forever changed the face of
utility and pipeline construction.
The exclusive Underground Infrastructure
industry research effort was
conducted during March and April
2023. It polled U.S. contractors and
utilities that actively own and operate
HDD units to enable a statistical portrayal
of the market.
For small to medium drillers working
in the fiber market and, increasingly,
the electric power markets, opportunities
abound. Abundantly funded by
private industry, fiber networks and
to-the-premises programs have been
proliferating for several years, long
before COVID struck.
The popularity of fiber has swelled
over the past decades as the signifPrimary
HDD Markets (% of total)
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