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 In New Zealand, contractor McConnell Dowell has used a Herrenknecht micro tunnel boring machine to set a record for a Direct Pipe drive
INFRASTRUCTURE

Micro tunnelling record set in New Zealand with Herrenknecht rig

Herrenknecht micro tunnel boring machine sets record for contractor McConnell Dowell in New Zealand

31 July 2020

 Pan Global Resources is preparing to commence the next phase of its drill project at the La Romana copper discovery in the Escacena Project, southern Spain
CORE SAMPLING

Pan Global expands drill programme at Spanish Escacena Project

Pan Global Resources' Spanish copper project at La Romana prepares for next drill programme to begin

30 July 2020

 The Aeolus is one of the vessel that will be deployed by Van Oord during the construction of the Hollandse Kust (noord) offshore wind farm
INFRASTRUCTURE

Van Oord to construct Hollandse Kust (noord) offshore wind farm

Van Oord to build Dutch offshore windfarm for Shell and Eneco joint venture Crosswind

30 July 2020

 Petrolern has received a US government grant to further develop its machine learning-based technology for real-time acquisition, compression, transmission, and processing of large subsurface datasets
GEOTHERMAL

Petrolern awarded D.O.E. grant for real-time subsurface monitoring

Machine learning tech development for geothermal industry gets boost with US government grant

30 July 2020

 Ground freezing was undertaken by Keller on a project on Long Island, New York, to provide excavation support and groundwater control on shafts for a tunnelling project
GROUND CONTROL

Ground freezing for major NY tunnel project

Ground freezing was done by Keller to provide excavation support on a tunnelling project in the US

29 July 2020

 Fugro’s SEACALF Mk V DeepDrive 200kN cone penetration test (CPT) system will perform ultra-deep seabed CPTs for geotechnical investigation of wind turbine locations for ScottishPower
SITE INVESTIGATION

Fugro's site characterisation for ScottishPower Renewables' East Anglia Hub

Fugro has begun a multidisciplinary site investigation contract off the UK coast

29 July 2020

 A move to Atlas Copco compressors has seen Spanish contractor Cimentaciones Abando make savings of up to 20 per cent on fuel costs
SITE INVESTIGATION

Atlas Copco DrillAir compressors lead to cost saving for contractor

Spanish contract achieves fuel savings after switching to Atlas Copco compressors

28 July 2020

 Work has begun on the launch site for two TBMs that will be working on the 10-mile Chiltern tunnels which will form part of the HS high-speed rail link in the UK
INFRASTRUCTURE

HS2 reveals new images of first tunnel launch site

Preparation work has begun on launch site for the TBMs that will be used on UK HS2 rail project

28 July 2020

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