WATER WELL AND EXPLORATION DRILLING

 

Our area of expertise falls within the following drilling methods:

 

Drilling of production, monitoring boreholes:

all sizes and under casing reaming for drilling through boulders or unstable rock and sand

O-Dex drilling:  all sizes

Mud rotary drilling

Micro piling:  sizes vary from 165mm diameter to 600mm diameter  holes

RC drilling

Air coring

Blast hole drilling

Drilling of Foundation Exploration holes

Exploration drilling

Drilling of boreholes for the domestic market

Borehole developing with high pressure jetting machine (1500 bar)

Siting of boreholes

HDD – HORIZONTAL DIRECTIONAL DRILLING

DRILLING OPERATIONS

 

Our expert personnel in trenchless technology can help install or rehabilitate underground

infrastructure while minimising environmental impacts and community disruptions.

We work hard to provide a safe service and offer operational experise that exceeds

expectations and gets results. We care about leaving places better than we found them.

 

Installing underground pipes, conduits and cables. We drill any type of rock formation from

our hardest dolorite (EC) and most abrasive Table mountain sandstone (WC)

to our softest formation.

 

All pipe sizes.

 

 

 

PLANT AND EQUIPMENT

 

Unit 1

Uni Drill 45/60 equipped for rock drilling

Compressor Atlas Copco XRVHS 1100 CFM 25 Bars, truck mounted

Maximum spindle speed: 250 rpm

Length of drill pipe 3m

 

Unit 2

Vermeer D16/20A

Maximum spindle speed: 248 rpm

Pull back 7257 kg

Thrust 7257,5 kg

Pipe diameter 4,8 cm

ANCILLARY SUPPORT VEHICLES

 

1 x Mercedes Benz Axor 26/28 with step deck load body

1 x Mahindra bakkie

OTHER

Digitrak Mark III locator

BOREHOLE TESTING, PUMP AND IRRIGATION SYSTEM INSTALLATIONS

 

Slug tests

Calibration tests

Stepped discharge tests

Constant discharge tests

Recovery tests

Groundwater sampling

Camera logging

Water quality analysis

PLANT AND EQUIPMENT

Trailer mounted test pump rigs capable of testing between 600 liters and 35000 liters per hour with all accessories.

(Larger equipment available on request)

PUMP INSTALLATIONS

We install:

Borehole pumps

Solar Pumps

Hand pumps

Irrigation systems