Obituary: Sunday Arafan Mangai 1962-2015

摘要

Sunday Arafan Mangai, Nigerian driller, passed away on 16 November 2015 in Jos, Nigeria, having succumbed to cancer. He was born on 16 July 1962 in Waya Hurti Village, Bokkos Local Government Area, Plateau State, Nigeria. Sunday began his career in the 1980s in Water Surveys Nigeria Limited as a field assistant to Robin Hazell, a pioneer hydrogeologist in Nigeria. After Water Surveys he worked briefly in the irrigation department of the Plateau State Agricultural Development Programme, Nigeria, drilling tubewells in shallow alluvial aquifers for irrigation. He later joined Peter Ball in the development and promotion of the Eureka Rig and the PAT-Drill series.