The world’s first flat-bottom air boat was invented weirdly enough in Brigham City, Utah in the early forties. Initially the air boat was designed to help preserve and protect bird population and animal life in the wetland oases that is an essential stopping point for migratory birds from north and south America. Nowadays, air boats…
When it comes to some long-term construction projects, people need to rely on the equipment and services they purchase to last and not wear down on the job. In less stable areas like swamps or marshes, that equipment also needs to function in various areas whether it includes land or water. Under both circumstances and…
The successful operation of floating drilling barges has established that this type equipment will find general acceptance for drilling and completing offshore wells. The floating barge supports rather than replaces, the more conventional offshore equipment and allows a much broader realm of possibilities for operations. The application of floating-barge drilling has been somewhat restricted in…
Sinkholes are a common feature of Florida’s landscape that end up beginning beneath the ground surface when large voids, or cavities, formed in the bedrock. The main factor causing these voids is groundwater moving through the limestone causing erosion but it is possible that several other factors can contribute are drilling vibration, changes in load…
Environmental drilling is an aspect of geotechnical drilling that has a lot of services and testing available. It is an umbrella term that incumpesses a wide varity of techniques to help better understand the composition of the soil and sediments below your feet. For example one popular type of environmental services Tampa contractors end up…
Construction projects often involve earthwork, foundations, roads and tunnels. Designs of foundations and excavations require accurate testing of soils and soil-structure interactions with geotechnical analysis. Tampa contractors knows that deformations in soils are affected by the flow of pore fluid in the soil and the implications of this coupled phenomenon need to be taken into…
One of the main activities done in construction is rock drilling, especially if it involves large buildings. From regular building constructions to the extraction of natural resources such as gas or other minerals, rock drilling is one of the specialization areas of a geotechnical drilling company. Tampa construction workers need to be aware that not…
Mud rotary drilling is one of the main methods of well drilling for water and oil in areas that contain unconsolidated formations. This technique has actually been around since the late nineteenth and is still quite popular in the industry today. With mud rotary drilling, Tampa geotechnical drillers have fluid that is pumped down the…
Oil is one of the resources on Earth that we cannot get enough of. Since the industrial revolution or maybe since the beginning of the automotive industry, oil and other petroleum based products have been in high demand, and a lot of land oil rigs were already being tapped. Luckily though, we were lucky enough…
There is no doubt that the drilling industry has drastically changed over the past few years. Several factors have contributed to the decline of oil, namely a surge in American and Iraqi oil production when contrasted against China whose demand for oil has decreased considerably. In many instances, offshore drilling has been subjected to the…
