Business View Magazine l January 2023

19 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 12 CASING SPECIALT I ES Situated in Midland, Texas, Casing Specialties has been operating for over 40 years. However, the family-run business started out as a more minor operation with a single truck. In 2006, Russel Davis, President, and CEO of Casing Specialties took over the reins from his father and has run it since. The company actually provides two different services in the same industry. Firstly, Casing Specialties provides drilling equipment as well as operations crews to run the specialized drilling equipment, all of whom have a genuine ‘can-do’ attitude. However, the company refers to itself as a casing company, which is the second service. When holes are drilled into the ground, it’s just a hole that the drilling rig has created. Casing Specialties provides the casing, or a pipe, that ensures the extracted resources can be pumped to the surface. Since 2006, the company has expanded its reach. First, into a California corporate location, and second, adding two operations locations to complete geothermal work in the southern and northern parts of the state. Since then, the company has conducted geothermal work worldwide, including in Honduras, Guatemala, and the Guadalupe Islands in the Caribbean. Domestically, the company has also expanded into Wyoming, North Dakota, Texas, and Hawaii. Davis explains that this expansion is due to a single reason: “We followed the people. By meeting new people, we were exposed to new opportunities. We kept on making great relationships, which has now led us to Texas.” The approach to the business’s expansion can be summed up by the company’s mantra of ‘one rig at a time.’ Casing Specialties wants to ensure they don’t overreach its capabilities. The company lands the next project by delivering services and work that is of the best standard on their current project. Also, the company has no contracts in place, so if