GDI profiles new equipment and products for quarrying
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Cirrus has been using AirBurst Technology to rehabilitate and clean up water boreholes
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Dan Gay, senior estimator/project manager at Magco Drilling, reports on two shaft-drilling projects carried out at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Terminal 4 and Guideway
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IN OCTOBER 2008, GDI reported that search engine Google had taken an interest in geothermal energy, through its philanthropic arm Google.org, investing over US$10 million in EGS technology...
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Worthing Borough Council has been performing essential maintenance on the timber-framed landing stage surrounding the end of the West Sussex town’s 150-year-old Grade II-listed pier.
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The Sauerland pyramids in Lennestadt, Germany, situated on a mountain overlooking the town of Meggen, have undergone an innovative energy concept.
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TR3 Geological Services won a tender to install a geothermal grid during the summer of 2009, under what would be Woodward Hill Elementary School’s brand new, all-weather soccer field in Surrey.
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African Minerals has awarded Fugro a contract for a site investigation related to the development of Freetown Port in Sierra Leone.
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Schlumberger has acquired GeothermEx, a California-based global provider of geothermal consulting services.
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Trevi Icos Corp has been awarded a prestigious new contract in the US worth about US$4.6 million.
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In Quebec, a Spanish-Canadian consortium is building the Nouvelle Autoroute 30 highway, bypassing Montreal at the south towards the A20 and A40 in the west.
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FINLAND-BASED Junttan Oy is buying ExcaDrill, PiloMac Oy’s rock-drilling equipment unit.
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Norway-based Devico has signed an agent agreement with Atlas Copco, the leading supplier to the exploration-drilling market in South Africa and neighbouring countries.
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The IMER Group concrete machinery division is launching an innovative and complete range of truck-mounted concrete pumps.
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Hydraquip Hose & Hydraulics has acquired the assets of Grimsby-based BCS Hydraulics & Pneumatics, which it will be operating as a branch of Hydraquip Hose & Hydraulics from May.
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US-based Enoscientific has launched the Well Sounder 2010, a self-contained, portable, acoustic-ranging instrument, designed to find the distance through a pipe or borehole to an obstruction.
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In the drilling industry, historically, conventional practice has been to use natural, round filter sands and gravels when installing monitoring and water-abstraction wells.
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Atlas Copco Portable Air has selected the EGR/DPF system to make its portable compressors compliant with EPA Tier 4A/EU Stage III B. The first prototype of a XRHS 366 unit was shown at Bauma.
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US-BASED McElroy said its new socket-tooling kits are set to simplify the working lives of contractors.
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Van Walt has unveiled a well modem that uses SMS (text)/GPRS for remote wireless data communications.
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NIBE Energy Systems (previously NIBE Heating) has acquired two new companies: ABK in Norway and Lotus Heating Systems in Denmark.
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Boart Longyear has upgraded and expanded its Stage diamond coring bit line.
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To coincide with the introduction of the new Tier 4 Interim/Stage III B engine generation, Deutz is making recommendations on the choice of service fluid.
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Bauer Maschinen GmbH has said exhibitors and visitors alike will remember Bauma 2010 as “the Bauma under the ash cloud”.
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Australia’s reputation as one of the world’s foremost destinations for mineral exploration is under threat from a critical market failure.
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A quartet from Hertfordshire, UK-based Bauer Technologies Ltd has raised £5,500 for The COINS Foundation, a charity focused on tackling poverty in Africa.
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Lankelma will hold a 10th anniversary seminar on June 10 at its East Sussex headquarters. Speakers will include Tom Lunne, of the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, and Mike Long, from University College Dublin.
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The Geological Society of South Africa will present a course in Johannesburg on drilling methods and techniques in exploration and mining from July 15-16.
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Plans for the 2010 National Drilling Association convention are underway with the event due to take place September 29 to October 1 in Chesterfield, Missouri, US.
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Stuart Well Services has donated supplies and drilling materials for the creation of water wells in deprived areas of The Gambia in Africa.
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A new training centre dedicated to green energy microgeneration technologies is to be opened later this year on the Wirral in the UK.
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The Spectroscopic Society of South Africa and the Central Analytical Facility at the University of Stellenbosch have introduced a five-day course in X-ray fluorescence spectrometry.
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From September 26-29, the Ground Water Protection Council, in partnership with other US organisations, will host the second Water/Energy Sustainability Symposium.
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The European Parliament’s second reading vote in plenary on May 18 strengthened the provisions of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive.
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GDI profiles the leading manufacturers of sonic drilling equipment and outlines their capabilities
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Until last year, US-based Diedrich Drill only sold its sonic head to other rig manufacturers, but then it decided to build its own sonic track rig using the knowledge it had learned from customers’ experiences, writes Diedrich Drill director Jim Lange
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Senior drill service consulting expert Denis Rousseau introduced sonic at Newmont Mining’s Minera Yanacocha gold mine in Peru almost eight years ago
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Per Karschowski, director
of Western, Central and Eastern Europe, at Achilles Group, highlights the risks and misconceptions surrounding health and safety issues, and second and third-tier suppliers – particularly pertinent to
the construction sector
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