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Exploration drilling around gold and copper mine, Georgia | Geotechnical investigations over water in the Caribbean |
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Closed loop geothermal instalations, UK | Groundwater investigations, Caribbean |
[left] Client's engineer inspecting backscar of landslide, prior to EMD intrusive investigations.
EMD focuses on providing high quality site investigation contracting services, our experience ranges from trial-pitting to complex multi-rig site investigations both on land, including railways, and over-water.
In addition to our UK operations we have extensive experience in providing site investigation services internationally with major projects successfully completed in Aruba, Equatorial Guinea, Jamaica, Liberia and Spain.
We offer the following techniques:
- Percussive windowless sampling
- Rotary coring
- Cable percussion
- Hollow stem auger
- Solid stem auger
- High quality undisturbed sampling (thin wall)
- Monitoring While Drilling (MWD)
- Wireless CPT testing
[left] HQ core samples highly weathered Gossan, gold exploration, Sudan.
EMD have the experience and skills to operate in remote and harsh environments worldwide with project locations ranging from the UK, to the Caribbean and the Sahara.
We can offer the following techniques:
- Wireline core drilling to 1,200m (NQ size)
- Large diameter wireline core drilling (Geobor S)
- Rotary air-bore drilling
- Shallow sands and gravels exploration
- Project management, troubleshooting and Consultancy services
[left] Closed loop geothermal installations, UK
EMD provides drilling services for the installation of ground loops associated with ground source heat pumps on both domestic and commercial properties. The range of in-house rotary rigs allows projects ranging from small scale domestic retro-fit to large scale industrial/commercial developments. In particular our restricted access plant allow ground loops to be installed in restricted spaces with minimum disturbance to the property and its neighbours.
[left] Water well drilling for agricultural use, UK.
EMD provides professional drilling and installation services for small and medium scale domestic and commercial water wells.
We specialise in water well installations for users requiring less than 20m3 where an abstraction license is not required. Such wells can provide an extremely cost effective alternative to mains supply.
Our modern drilling fleet and highly experienced drillers ensure that all operations are carried out in an efficient manner with minimal disturbance to property.
