VolkerTrenchless Solutions

Our VolkerTrenchless Solutions team has provided funding and sponsorship to under 9’s football team, Bourne Town Juniors U9. The team has put the funding to good use with the purchase of new winter jackets, keeping them warm during training and matches. 

Did you catch the video we’re shared on our work at Hornsea 3? The aerial footage shows our 100t drilling rig at its third Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) site. This rig had completed two out of four complex drills whilst our 60t rated rig had completed 11 out of 13 complex drilling scopes. Current progress at the time had us complete on 17,487 of the 23,356 meters of complex drilling and duct installations, delivered safely along the cable route in Norfolk. On the noncomplex HDD, a total of 71 drills has been scoped. The team had completed more than 26 drills safely. This amounts to a total drilling distance of 10,148 meters of noncomplex drilling for the main 250mm SDR11 ducts and the SDR9 90mm fibre optic ducts for these drills. Cabling works are being carried out on behalf of Ørsted, one of the world’s leading sustainable energy companies. The project, which is being delivered by VolkerFitzpatrick supported by VolkerStevin and VolkerTrenchless Solutions, will see the delivery of a 52km stretch of dual circuit DC cable.

Check out this 750m drill our colleagues @Visser & Smit Hanab completed earlier on the year. The photos capture several mobile telescopic cranes in use to withdraw the pipeline.    #VolkerTrenchlessSolutions #HorizontalDirectionalDrilling #HD

Check out this photo which captures our team preparing 6 x 5/8” diameter, 9.6m length drilling pipes with a 10mm diameter copper tracer wire. The drilling pipes were being prepped for a pilot phase on site and guided by gyroscopic functions provided by Brownline. All drilling pipes are routinely checked and inspected by specialists at SlimDril International.

At VolkerTrenchless Solutions, we firmly believe that our people are the driving force behind our future success and we want to ensure we stay at the forefront of the trenchless industry. That's why we recently sent four members of our team to the immersive, weeklong Mudschool hosted by Cebo International in the Netherlands.   This hands-on training programme is designed to deepen knowledge on the effective use and application of drilling fluids and slurries across various drilling and tunnelling operations.   The Mudschool experience combines laboratory exercises, live demonstrations, and engaging lectures from industry experts. The masterclass covers a wide array of topics, from designing drilling fluids to undertaking fluid property testing, aimed at optimising drilling performance and ultimately reducing end-user costs.

Did you know we own and operate one of the largest fleets of HDD rigs in Europe, with drilling rigs from 27t to 450t pulling capacity. We use our comprehensive knowledge of soil mechanics, materials, engineering and diverse range of rigs to de-risk projects by ensuring we select the correct, most efficient and least disruptive drilling technologies. To find out more about our fleet of HDD rigs, visit our website https://lnkd.in/eUVr3Y3T

Back in the summer our team completed the final Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) installation on Anglian Water’s Strategic Pipeline Alliance in the East of England, after 18 months on site. The team had been working closely with the client on the project for the last four years from the initial ECI phase through to delivery. Our team has delivered over 11km of pipeline which has involved passing under numerous critical assets and dealing with a variety of geological conditions. The team also worked over 160,000 hours on site with zero accidents, which demonstrates our unwavering commitment to health and safety.

Did you catch our article in New Civil Engineer on the innovative techniques we used on the Anglian Water Strategic Pipeline Alliance, in the East of England. The project faced significant challenges, including fractured chalk beneath critical infrastructure and logistical hurdles, yet through innovative techniques our team delivered impressive results ahead of schedule. The team implemented several innovative measures to overcome challenges, central to which was the use of an intersect Horizontal Directional Drilling methodology. In this approach, two rigs drilled from opposite ends of the bore path, meeting in the middle to complete the pilot bore. Read the full story below. #TrenchlessEngineering #Innovation #HDD

Have you checked out our website yet? Click the link https://lnkd.in/dE5P5gZQ to find out more about what we do, our capabilities, our fleet of rigs and the projects we’ve worked on. If you require further information or would like to speak with a member of the team, please email info@volkertrenchlesssolutions.co.uk