Projects

Drill Force New Zealand Ltd is a multi disciplined mobile drilling company which delivers unparalleled quality and services throughout New Zealand. With our modern fleet of  Hydraulic and Table drive multipurpose drilling rigs, support equipment and experienced personnel we provide cost effective, professional drilling related services in the Water Well, Geotechnical, Environmental, Construction, Seismic, Exploration, Coal and CBM markets

Drill Force has made a conscientious decision to enter the New Zealand drilling contracting market using only high quality modern multipurpose Drilling rigs, Ancillary equipment, Testing and Down hole tooling.

To demonstrate our ability, the Drill Force team has recently successfully completed projects with hole diameters exceeding 600mm and drilled depths to ~1000m in various areas within New Zealand.

Number of wells; 3
Depth; ~1000m
Drilling method; Rotary Wash Drill
Drilling Rig used; Rig #1 D.S.M. Mayhew SD54M
Uniquely challenging project with access limitations and adverse weather experienced. Our client benefited from the use of our New Range III, DSM drilling rig, support equipment and experienced crews who double shifted this project.

Number of wells; 7
Drilling method; Continuous wire-line coring
Drilling rig used; Rig #2 Cortech YDX 3L
Testing; In situation and down hole SPT’s, push tubes and shear vane testing
Foundation investigation for the proposed Mangere Arts Centre. This was carried out within a public car park during normal operating hours. Vehicular traffic and keeping the public a safe distance from the drilling operations created additional hazards that were risk assessed and controlled.

Number of wells; 1
Completed diameter; 150mm
Total depth; 82m
Drilling rig used; Rig #3 Schramm T300M
Municipal Water supply well for the community of Ruawai. Casing was set and fully annular grouted back to surface, then telescopic screens were installed through an unstable aquifer to a total depth of 82m. On completion Drill Force conducted performance testing on the well.

Number of wells; 4
Depth ~450m
Drilling method; Wash drill with HQ wireline cored tail
Drilling rig used; Rig #3 Schramm T300M
These exploration wells were drilled in an area of the Huntly Coal fields where there where “gaps” in the information recorded from wells drilled in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Well completions included full cement grout back to surface (some 8000lt volume) and multiple deep pressure transducer installations. The wells were drilled on a double shift type operation as to reduce costs to the client and to meet their project deadlines.