Meet our Team
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We have secured by scrupulous selection what we consider the industries best drillers in today’s competitive drilling market. This will allow us to provide only experienced and industry proven drillers and support staff to your projects. Drill Force will only provide suitably experienced and trained personnel to your sites and projects including field staff and management with current IADC Well Cap well control certificates for all situations where there is a potential to be drilling into a formation under pressure such as Coal Seam Gas and Geothermal drilling projects.
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Operations management
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Zane Brown
Zane is a 5th generation driller and a former share holder of Drillwell Exploration. The son of Martyn Brown (Founder of Drillwell Exploration) and whether he wanted to or not, has been involved in the drilling industry from birth.
Zane has a construction background which compliments his strong knowledge of the New Zealand drilling industry and in particular, the Water well and Geotech markets.
Zane also holds a prestigious position as an elected Council Member of the New Zealand Drillers Federation (NZDF).
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Bruce Mc Keown
Bruce has a strong engineering and a drilling services-related background, which compliments his current role as an Operations Manager in the Energy, Construction and Special projects market sectors of Drill Force’s business.
Bruce, who also started his drilling career with Drillwell Exploration, has held management roles with an international drilling services company.
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Mechanical support
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Mike Stuart (Havick)
Mike is trade qualified and has a strong engineering and mechanical background with approximately 20 years experience. Mike has recently joined our team and has rapidly picked up the aspects of the drilling industry.
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Senior Drillers / Supervisors
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Phillip Van Houtte (Soldier)
Within his drilling career Phil has gained considerable drilling knowledge and experience whilst working for companies such as Drillwell Exploration. This experience and knowledge is invaluable in all of the drilling markets that we currently operate within. Phil is well respected by clients due to his dedication and “make it happen” attitude.
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Chad Brown
Chad is a 5th generation driller and son of Len Brown (Founder of Drillwell Exploration) thus whether he wanted to or not has been involved in the drilling industry from birth.
Chad has an engineering background which compliments his drilling knowledge of the New Zealand drilling industry and in particular the Water well, Geotech, Seismic and CBM markets. Chad has an easy going pleasant supervisory manner that is appreciated by both drill crews and clients alike.
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Drillers
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Phillip Martin (Cup cake)
Phil entered the drilling industry after trade qualifying and working as a butcher in the Waikato Region. Phil quickly picked up the art of drilling and has been involved in High temperature geothermal, CSG, Coal and Geotech projects throughout New Zealand.
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Ryan Tidswell (Farm boy)
Ryan is currently one of our leading geotechnical and environmental drillers Ryan is well respected by our clients and has the ability to work on a self managed basis with regards to the requirement for the client to provide an onsite geologist or technician.
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Chris Mc Laughlin (Boof)
Alike most of our team, Chris has gained previous qualifications in another area prior to joining the drilling industry. Since his introduction to drilling, Chris has been involved with drilling Oil, Gas, Geothermal, Water and Seismic wells. Chris currently is operating a water well drilling rig in the greater Auckland and Waikato areas.
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Glen Sollner
Glen has a construction background, is a practical problem solver. Glen has gained drilling experience in the Mineral, CSG, Geothermal, Geotechnical and Environmental markets. Glen is putting this knowledge to use whilst operating a drilling rig in the Geotechnical and Environmental markets throughout New Zealand.
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Trainee Drillers
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Kiel Peterson (Garfield)
Kiel has been involved in the drilling industry for a number of years and is currently working towards obtaining the necessary qualifications and experience to become a driller.
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Garett Daly (Turbo)
Garett has been involved in the drilling industry for a number of years and is currently working towards obtaining the necessary qualifications and experience to become a driller.
Garret’s interests include fast cars and bikes.
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