Industries
Offshore geotechnical & drilling
Engineering the systems behind reliable, high-quality offshore site investigation.
We design, supply and support equipment and systems for marine geotechnical drilling and sampling, working at the interface between drilling operations, structural and mechanical engineering, hydraulics and controls. The objective isn’t drilling speed or depth alone, it’s the controlled recovery of high-quality, representative samples that accurately reflect in-situ conditions, because competent cores reduce project risk and improve margins for everyone downstream.
Heave compensation & active assist
We are familiar with the full range of passive heave compensation (PHC) configurations in offshore use, and we’re recognised specialists in active heave compensation. Where conventional active systems only hold position, geotechnical drilling needs controlled advance, so we developed AHA (Active Heave Assist), a retrofit-capable system that lets the driller set a target weight-on-bit and a maximum feed rate, with the system actively managing drill-string movement (AWOB – Automatic Weight-On-Bit). Active compensation can cut compensation error from the ±2–4 tonnes typical of a passive system to around 0.25–0.5 tonnes, with proven improvements in core recovery.
Performance, safety & constant tension
We provide structured performance evaluation of existing heave-compensated systems before they’re pushed into deeper water, heavier payloads or higher sea states, decisions backed by analysis rather than discovered offshore. We have extensive high-pressure-system experience, design our own velocity fuses and safety components and supply constant-tension winches including ACT (Active Constant Tension) and overload protection systems (OLPS).
Drilling floor automation
We help close the industry’s growing skills gap with equipment that shoulders more of the work, automated pipe and rod handling, remote tool handlers and our compact iron roughneck ( MMIRN MK2 ), keeping people away from stored energy and moving equipment and letting crews work closer to the weather limit without taking on more risk.