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Safety measures improve to beat soil, rock pitfalls

David Gibson, BAM Ritchies business development manager, discusses some recent developments in rock and soil slope stabilisation and protection

SA geoscience bill 2010

South Africa’s Geoscience Amend-ment Bill 2010, tabled in Parliament, clarifies the role of the Council for GeoScience and updates terminology such as government departments.

Capital mobilises rigs

Since listing in June, Capital Drilling, the emerging markets-focused drilling company, has continued to concentrate on the mobilisation of rigs...

Audie unveils light, but durable rig

South Africa-based Audie Steel & Engineering has launched what it says is a light, reliable and durable drill rig “that doesn’t cost a fortune”.

It’s time for change

THIS is my last issue of GeoDrilling Inter­nation­al, as I head off to pastures new.

Putzmeister invents sliding pipe rheometer

Concrete pump manufacturer Putzmeister has created a ‘sliding pipe rheometer’, which it says establishes the required pressure for concrete pumps quickly.

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