Location:    Dunstable Downs, Bedfordshire, England

Client:        Cemex UK Cement Limited

Directional Drilling and Construction

Fabrication, installation and testing of a 600m x 273mm steel pipe for the transfer of chalk slurry from Kensworth Quarry to the Rugby cement works.  The route crosses National Trust Downs land and a SSSI.

Location:    Holyhead, Wales

Client:        Welsh Water/GallifordTry

Directional Drilling and Construction

Construction of a 1100m x 560mm OD PE pipe, including a 300m long directional drill through the sea cliff face and out into a dredged trench.

Location:    Yarmouth, Isle of Wight

Client:        Southern Water

Directional Drilling and Construction

The installation of a 1200m x 355mm dia HDPE pipeline crossing of the River Yar and of 3 No. 300m x 355mm dia plus 1 No. 300m x 225mm dia HDPE pipeline crossings of the River Medina.  Part of a sewage transfer scheme for Seaclean Wight.

Location:    Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Client:        North of Scotland Water Authority (s/c to Balfour  Beatty)

Directional Drilling and Construction

The installation of a 700m x 355mm dia HPPE sewage outfall in hard rock.  Part of the Aberdeen Wastewater Treatment Scheme.

Location:    Port Talbot, Wales

Client:        Welsh Water (s/c to Costain)

Directional Drilling and Construction

Installation of a 385m x 710mm dia polyethylene effluent pipeline under the River Afan at Port Talbot

Location:    Preston, Lancashire, England

Client:        British Gas

Directional Drilling and Construction

The design and installation of a directionally drilled 640m x 1067mm dia steel gas pipeline crossing of the River Ribble at Preston.  Part of the Treales to Burscough trunk line.

Location:    River Mersey, Scotland

Client:        Shell Chemicals

Directional Drilling

Installation of two 273mm dia river crossings forming part of the Grangemouth to Stanlow refinery interlink for ethylene transfer.  The Mersey crossing involved extensive drilling in sandstone rock.  The River Ribble crossing at Preston was 1040m long and the River Mersey at Fiddlers Ferry was 800m long.

Location:    River Mersey, England

Client:        Shell UK

Directional Drilling Engineering Study

Geotechnical borehole investigation for a 600m long x 250mm dia ethylene pipeline crossing under the R. Mersey, the St. Helens canal, railway line and ash lagoons.  Work to assess feasibility for installation of the pipeline using the directional drilling technique.  Part of Grangemouth-Stanlow trunkline

Location:    Furzey Island, Poole Harbour, Dorset, England

Client:        BP Petroleum Development

Engineering, Directional Drilling and Bundle Fabrication

Construction and installation of a 1200m x 660mm dia steel sleeve pipe between oil wells on Furzey Island and the collection system on the Goathorn Peninsula.  The crossing under the South Deep Channel of Poole Harbour later had a 6 pipe bundle inserted into the sleeve.  Exceptional environmental precautions were taken in this designated nature reserve.

Location:    Cowes, Isle of Wight

Client:        Southern Water Authority

Directional Drilling

Installation of a 406mm dia x 560m steel sewage pipeline under the River Medina.

Location:    Falkirk, Scotland

Client:        Scottish Gas

Directional Drilling