Owner John Ashby has over 40 years of experience in the oil and gas business with 25 years operating in the DJ Basin of Colorado-Wyoming-Nebraska, encompassing many of the upstream segments of the exploration and production business. Operating as a contract driller in the DJ during much of the nineties, ADC accrued 4 million feet of hole. In 2000 Ashby Drilling sold the drilling rig assets moving into exploration and production to concentrate on wildcat wells leading to the discovery of the Ammo Oilfield.

As exploration and production costs steadily escalate the discovery of new sources of oil and gas is greatly effected. This is particularly important in areas that exhibit high incidence rates of drilling dry holes.

Originally drilling in the DJ began with a relatively low cost dryhole that was predicated on fast drilling of Cretaceous age rocks, examining samples, logging, testing and often plugging. That is no longer the case. If it is not the drilling contract that puts responsibility on the operator no matter what, it is the inability of the operator to gain the required information to make an informed decision to plug or run pipe. Ashby Drilling offers a partial remedy to both the contract style and reliability of downhole information gathering.