The maxi rig market seems to grab all the headlines in the directional drilling community, with their ever-growing bore lengths and size of the rigs. But the headlines have been fairly quiet for the popular HDD segment, as it has plugged along over the last few years.rnThe maxi rig market for sales and work has taken on an ebb and flow structure over the last few years. Oil and natural gas pipeline work is critical to the overall health of this HDD segment. As the worldwide economy tumbled, the effect on the maxi rig market has been felt - perhaps not as strongly as other construction markets but affected nonetheless through held-up project funding, for example.
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