Horizontal Drilling – Takaka Hill

CW Drill EX60 drill rig doing horizontal drilling work on Takaka Hill NZ

Location
Takaka Hill, Golden Bay

Drilling Project Brief
Required to drill and install temporary casing through a variety of formations to allow the installation of 80mm conduit to carry broad band cables for Golden Bay.

Drilling Project Challenges
Difficult and varied formations made the tooling selection critical – this was imperative to enable drilling and casing reached target location.
Variety of formations – encountered silts, clays broken / fractured limestone, to cavernous limestone.
Very busy and narrow public road.
Borehole accuracy – advanced straight and true, with minimum of 1.0m of cover at exit point.

Result
Excellent final result. 3 crossings completed within budget, and met all the clients exacting specifications.