GDI December 09
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A toast to absent friends
IT IS with sadness that we note in this month’s issue of GeoDrilling the passing of major drilling industry figures Les Nichol and Bill Barrett.Drill Pads
TAG uses specially modified drill for 56m-deep piles in Hanoi
FOUNDATION specialist Thien An Group (TAG) of Vietnam is using a newly-delivered Liebherr LB 28 rotary-drilling rig for the excavation of 56m-deep piles on a commercial building being constructed in the centre of Hanoi.
Trevi reports revenues up and rise in profitability
Gruppo Trevi’s interim results to September 30, 2009, reveal growth in revenues and an increase in profitability, particularly at the level of net profit, despite an unfavourable global macro-economic climateBachy embarks on four-week remediation project
Bachy Soletanche is working on a fast-track, four-week project at Nab Scar near Grasmere in the UK’s Lake District, conducting remedial work on a 40° cliff faceMajor Drilling eyes recovery as revenue climbs
Major Drilling Group International Inc has reported results for its second quarter of fiscal year 2010 ended October 31, 2009, posting quarterly revenue of C$75.5 million, down 60% from the C$191 million recorded for the same quarter last year, but up C$13 million, or 21%, from the first quarter of fiscal 2010BGS boasts a ‘worldfirst’ with UK map service
The British Geological Survey’s (BGS’s) OpenGeoscience is a new web service that provides free geological maps for the whole of Great Britain, images from its extensive collection of photographs and a wide range of other digital informationBBGE proves it is worth its salt in Ireland
Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering (BBGE) has completed its first contract in Ireland since aligning its divisional businesses in the country two months agoZebra earns its stripes on St Johns River
US-based Zebra Environmental has completed a series of direct sensing and sampling events from a river-barge platform on St Johns River in northeast FloridaCarpenter Drilling and Nicholson awarded US Energy jet-injection test programme
CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company (CH2M HILL) has awarded Carpenter Drilling and Nicholson, the North American business unit of Soletanche Bachy Group, a construction subcontract worth US$330,000 for a jet-injection test programme at the US Department of Energy’s 100N Area on the Hanford Site in Richland, WashingtonSGL installs piling for East India section of DLR 3-Car project
Systems Geotechnique (SGL) has finished installing 82No 340/300mm-diameter piles at East India Dockland Light Railway (DLR) station in London for Taylor Woodrow, as part of the DLR 3-Car Enlargement ProjectGeothermal germany
The installation of systems to warm up buildings and generate electricity using energy from beneath the Earth’s surface is set to expand more quickly in Germany than other carbon-free energy sources, according to a Deutsche Bank reportNevada Geo wins grant
The US Treasury Department has approved a grant of US$57.9 million for Nevada Geothermal Power’s Blue Mountain Geo – Faulkner 1 geothermal power plant under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009Land-Drill investigates Scottish eco-centre site
Land-Drill has been involved in the construction of an innovative new eco-centre being built by West Lothian Council at Beecraigs Country Park, just outside Linlithgow in ScotlandIdaho energy drill
Geologists plan to drill a pair of mile-deep holes in southern Idaho in a hunt for geothermal fields that could be tapped to produce energyGrundoBurst for sanasa
Sanasa, the water authority for Brazilian city Campinas, will be using a Grundoburst 400 G3 in a large-scale pipebursting exercise to renew damaged drinking-water pipelinesSierra starts Alum exploration drill
Sierra Geothermal Power (SGP) has started drilling a production-assessment observation well at the Alum project, near the Nevada-California border in Esmeralda County, NevadaLankelma UK11 rig in Antarctica trip to test polar snow
Lankelma has designed and constructed UK11, a cone-penetration testing rig that can be attached to a tractor’s rear three-point linkageTestconsult records displacement data for flyover project near Southampton
UK-based Testconsult has been involved in a contract to replace bridge bearings beneath live loads at the Redbridge Flyover on the A34, close to Southampton DocksRigs & Supplies
Atlas Copco’s IT applications assist drill-rig performance
Atlas Copco has launched a High Precision Tunnelling concept which features a number of options for drill rigs and machines
Bauer Maschinen opens new plant in Texas, US
Bauer Maschinen GmbH, based in Bavaria, Germany, has opened a new plant in Conroe, Texas, USSoil Instruments spreads its wings with DipperLog distribution deal
UK-based Soil Instruments, which manufactures geotechnical and structural instrumentation, is now the UK and European distributor for Heron Instruments’ water-level logger systemMALÅ wins iraqi order
Sweden-based MALÅ Geoscience has received a strategic order from a governmental organisation in Iraq, consisting of MALÅ ProEx systems and associated surface and borehole antennasAtlas Copco launches unit as micro-piling popularity grows
As the global redevelopment of urban areas continues, the need for a cost-efficient method to stabilise structures in sensitive areas is increasingCO2 detector range out
Terraplus is offering a number of geophysical methods to help identify potential sites where the CO2 can be sequestered and, once stored, monitoredLatest SONICSAMPdrill
SonicSampDrill is offering the PDR-50, a small drill rig for mud-rotary or hammer drillingDrilcorp achieves ‘verify’ status with Achilles
Drilcorp has announced it has successfully achieved ‘Achilles Verify’ accreditationMD-3 shaker addresses space
M-I SWACO says its new MD-3 shale shaker provides operators with the ability to meet their solids control challenges, offshore or on, when space is at a premium but high-performance solids control is requiredROBIT raising standard
Finland-based Robit is running a project to upgrade its quality system to meet the ISO9001:2008 standardMetke in Sampler deal
Australia-based Metzke has designed and fitted a complete 1200CFM Sampling System to a Cubex QXR 920 for contractor Mass Drill and BlastDMT launches seismic vessel
With the launch of the ‘Explorer 5’, DMT GmbH has put an additional shallow marine seismic vessel into serviceTAM packer Range swells
TAM International has introduced Freecap GT swellable packers for steam injection, open-hole geothermal, and hot wellsCredit insurance update
A survey of its members by the UK’s Construction Products Association (CPA) has shown that two-thirds of companies have seen no easing in the credit insurance market over the last three monthsDrillers Log
Goodbye to a gentleman geologist
A former chairman of the BDA, Dr Bill Barrett is best remembered for advancing quarry geology and its associated exploration drilling
Sudden farewell to a Scottish giant
The British drilling industry bids a fond farewell to Les Nichol, one of its most dedicated and caring professionals and also a former chairman of the BDAJon Higgins joins Eaton Geotechnics
Senior geotechnical engineer Jon Higgins has joined Eaton Geotechnics to supplement the Midlands-based company’s technical team in the wake of increasing contracts and growing enquiry levelsEllis president of Terex Construction
George Ellis has been named president of Terex Construction, reporting to Tom Riordan, Terex’s president and COOUK construction sector proves healthier than predicted in Q3
The UK construction industry was stronger in the third quarter than first thought, with official data showing expansion from the effects of fiscal stimulusBuildings energy bill
The provisions of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive have been strengthened, raising the ambitions of the text beyond the original proposals of the European CommissionUK Construction TSAR
Paul Morrell has been appointed to the newly-created post of chief construction adviser to the UK GovernmentMitchell Energy names McIver as GM
Martin McIver has been appointed as general manager of Mitchell Energy Group (MEG)Raspino 2010 chair of IADC
Louis Raspino, president & CEO of Pride International, has been elected as the 2010 chairman of the International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC)World non-ferrous exploration budgets drop US$5.5 billion
After rising for six straight years to a 19-year record high of US$13.2 billion in 2008, estimated planned non-ferrous exploration spend for 2009 plummeted by 42% to US$7.7 billionGeo meet in germany
The International Geothermal Conference will take place in Freiburg, Germany, on May 19-20, 2010, for the sixth timeUS Defense seeks new focus for investment
The US Department of Defense’s (DoD) Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) is seeking to fund research and development in the environmental restoration focus areaConstruction Federation welcomes EC revisions
The European Construction Industry Federation (FIEC) has welcomed some of the clarifications brought by the European Commission’s revisions on certain articles of the proposal for a Construction Products RegulationPoland leads European growth
Thanks to extensive government economic stimulus programmes, aimed to a considerable extent at construction, activity in the sector is reported to have picked up better in most industrial and emerging countries than in the economy as a wholeFeatures
