Geotechnical Drilling West Ridge What is Marine Geotechnical Drilling?
West Ridge, Georgia natives most commonly think of drilling on land when it comes to geotechnical drilling, but larger companies like Amdrill can also offer marine geotechnical drilling. West Ridge natives can use marine geotechnical drilling for a project involving a lake, pond, canal or a project off the coast in the ocean.
We have a number of different barge-mounted and boat-mounted drilling rigs, which can be transported by roadway and then launched from a boat ramp or lowered into the water with a crane if a boat ramp isn’t available. This also allows us to access islands, including undeveloped islands or islands where you’re considering a new construction project, whether it’s in Georgia, Florida, Alabama or off the coast in the Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico.
In fact, we have portable amphibious geotechnical drilling rigs that can be used with barges, air boats and traditional boats, even including some fairly small watercraft.
West Ridge geotechnical drilling technicians can perform marine drilling projects for a number of different purposes.
Often, our marine geotechnical drilling technicians are dispatched to perform drilling in an effort to gather information and data that will be used by engineers who are working on a construction project of some kind. This can range from the construction of a stilt home, a dock, a pier, a sea wall, a dam, a levee, or a structure on an undeveloped island. It’s even possible to use geotechnical drilling to gather data about the land if you were to select a location for a man-made island.
Marine drilling can also be used to determine the ideal location for an oil well or natural gas well. But this generally falls outside of the realm of traditional geotechnical drilling. Instead, this type of drilling is usually referred to as exploratory drilling.
Exploratory drilling typically entails a more long-term project, which requires immense, state-of-the-art drilling equipment and significant resources. This is due to the complexity of drilling out in the open ocean — often many, many miles from the shoreline — and the depths involved with drilling for oil or natural gas under the ocean floor. These drilling projects pose an engineering challenge because you must deal with the immense underwater pressures and you typically need to drill to very significant depths to reach these pockets of oil or natural gas.
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