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We are pleased to announce the successful delivery of our premier HG260D-80 Water Well Drilling Rig to our valued client in El Salvador, Central America. This transaction marks a significant step in our ongoing commitment to providing robust and efficient drilling solutions for international infrastructure and resource development projects. The HG260D-80 is a ...
Waiting in line for soil testing services can put unnecessary stress on your operation and lead to schedule delays, anxious employees and unhappy clients. What many contractors and private operators with soil sampling needs don’t know is it’s not only possible to pull your own soil samples, it’s a lot easier than you might think. Lone Star’s LST1G+ and ...
Upcoming enhancements will introduce per-site confidence indicators, richer export options (including branded PDFs), and contractor-level controls for preferred methods and default construction assumptions.Important note: The Estimator provides planning guidance and is not a substitute for stamped engineering, permitting, or compliance with local regulations. ...
COSL Drilling has awarded Soiltech a contract for treating contaminated water on the harsh environment, semi-submersible drilling rig COSLPromoter, with startup in the third quarter of 2024. ...
One of the semi-submersible rigs owned by Odfjell Drilling, an offshore drilling contractor based in Aberdeen, was utilized by the Norwegian state-owned energy company Equinor in order to make a modest oil discovery in the North Sea, which is located off the coast of Norway. The Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) reports that Equinor has been ...
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Typically the data is generated by a ground investigation contractor, laboratory or on-site drilling crew or technicians and then passed to all project team members. ...
Iceland drilling has made the finals of the Deloitte Energy Excellence award for Excellence in Health and Safety. IDC has in the past two years, along with the contractors they employ, completed 950,000 hours Lost Time Injury Free and significant injury free, while completing 32 rig moves and 26 wells. ...
Once finalized the drilling rig will be mobilized to the nearby island of Terceira for additional drilling of two to three wells at Pico Alto geothermal field. ...
These targets were to drill deep, extract drilling cores, measure the temperature and search for permeability. ...
The massive spread of the corona virus and the associated consequences are omnipresent – both in and outside of Europe . Also the DCA unfortunately cannot escape this. Currently, some member companies have already provided information on preventive measures, including the cancellation of trips that are not absolutely necessary. This includes in particular travel within the framework of ...
On 18 March 2020, TRACTO-TECHNIK GmbH & Co. KG invites decision makers, project managers and site managers of HDD companies to a further education seminar in Lennestadt. The seminar under the title "Subsoil description for HDD projects - Application of DIN 18324" is jointly designed and conducted by DCA and the companies Tracto-Technik, Moll-prd, AMC and Dr. Donié Geo-Consult GmbH. In ...
This year, the largest further training event in the pipe construction industry in Germany, which took place for the 34th time, was held on 13 and 14 February 2020 under the motto "Pipes and cables - Pipes for a modern infrastructure". The growing importance of cable construction due to climate change, which is reflected in the expansion of power lines in Germany, was placed in relation to pipe ...
The Members Meeting of the Drilling Contractors Association (DCA) takes place at Wednesday, 12th February 2020, at 15.00 p.m. ...
On January 23rd, 2020 the DCA Members' Forum on "New Trenchless Techniques linked to HDD Technology" will take place, primarily for project and site managers, technical supervisors, planners and clients, but also foremen and HDD drill operators trained according to GW 329. Participation in the event is free of charge and exclusively reserved for DCA member companies. Conference language is ...
Together with the Berufsförderungswerk des Rohrleitungsbauverbands e. V., the DCA is once again organising a further training event according to GW 329 in 2019. As usual, the event will take place on 10 December 2019 at the Schlosshotel Wilhelmshöhe in Kassel. The seminar is primarily aimed at technical supervisors who have an examination certificate for training levels A and B. The ...
The co-founder, former president and honorary member of the Drilling Contractors Association (DCA), Hermann Lübbers, who last worked as a project manager for large-scale drilling technology at Beermann Bohrtechnik GmbH, died on 16 October 2019 at the age of 65 after a long and serious illness. ...
The Drilling Contractors Association (DCA) is organising its annual congress again this year. ...
Poland's largest trenchless industry meeting is taking place this year for the 17th time. The international conference, exhibition and technology fair "Trenchless Engineering" invites from 11th to 14th June 2019 to Tomaszowice near Krakow. On the two main days of the conference, lectures in the form of workshops with exciting discussions will be held in the morning and technology shows in the ...
IADC and its members look forward to continuing to serve as an educative resource to the LPA as drilling operations in the country begin.” About IADC Since 1940, the International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC) has exclusively represented the worldwide oil and gas drilling industry. IADC’s mission is to ...
In addition, opening ANWR keeps the U.S. on the path of energy dominance, allowing the country to develop more of its own natural resources, which will be needed for decades to come. Based on their experience drilling thousands of wells in the U.S. and internationally, IADC members have no doubt that oil and gas operations can be conducted in ANWR without harm to the area’s ...