Department of Exploration Drilling
The department develops and implements new drilling technologies. The main direction is to develop new technologies of mobile core drilling. Original lightweight modular or self-propelled drilling rigs are being put into practice; technologies for improving eco-friendliness of operations are being developed. The proposed set of technologies makes it possible to abandon traditional heavy drilling rigs, logging, site preparation by bulldozers, and other costly and environment-damaging activities, while the cost per meter of drilling and productivity of works are similar to the classical approach.
Research projects
- Technologies for implementation of new type drilling projects in hard-to-reach areas
- Strategies of using traditional and mobile drilling rigs in different economic and geological conditions
- Creation of a unified line of aero-mobile rigs for diamond drilling using technology with projectile with removable core receiver