Guide on Rotary Drilling – Updated 2024

Drilling deep into the Earth’s surface is a crucial task for many industries, from water supply to construction. Thanks to…

Why More Farms Are Turning to Private Water Supplies

Key Takeaways Installing a private borehole reduces long-term water bills, especially for high-consumption farms. Private water supplies offer consistent and…

Common Drilling Challenges in Closed-Loop Heat Pump Installations

Closed-loop heat pump installations make use of the stable temperatures found underground to provide efficient heating and cooling for residential…

Drilcorp’s Minesource Project update

Drilcorp has been pressing ahead with minesource projects over the last years becoming the company to go-to for successful projects…

What You Need To Know About Ground-Source Heat Pump Systems

In a world progressively moving towards more eco-friendly solutions, ground-source heat pumps (GSHPs) systems are a key component. Drilcorp is…

Drilcorp Leads the Way in Mine-Source Heating Initiatives

In 2021, most people have heard of air-source heat pumps and ground-source heat pumps. But in this month’s Hole Report…

Drilcorp’s Conrad Combi 300: A Promising Start

Combi 300’s Test and Deployment If our new Combi 300 thought it was going to have an easy life, it…

Borestorer® – Drilcorp’s Revolutionary Borehole Cleaning & Development Technology

Borestorer® – Drilcorp’s Revolutionary Borehole Cleaning & Development Technology Hole Report – December 2023 What is the Borestorer®? The Borestorer®…

Artesian Well | Drilcorp A – Z

 Highlights: An artesian well is a water well that doesn’t require a pump to bring water to the surface. Artesian…

What Can Affect the Cost of Drilling a Ground Source Heat Pump Borehole?

At a time when finding renewable energy sources is more important than ever, ground source heat pumps (GSHPs) are a…

Geothermal Heat Pump Borehole Installation: New State of the Art Drilling Rig

The Drilcorp management team decided in 2022 that to move ahead strategically, the company would target the closed loop drilling…

Iron in Water: Signs, Effects & Removal

Key Takeaways: Common signs of iron in water include reddish-brown stains on fixtures, metallic taste, foul smell, and visible sediment…

What is the Difference Between Horizontal & Vertical Closed Loop Ground Source Systems?

Ground source heat pumps are a sustainable alternative to traditional heating. As the world turns towards a greener future, ground…

Boreholes have now been in business for 30 years

By Drilcorp Founder and CEO, Dave Gowans They say, “Time flies when you are having fun”. Well, on 28th February…

Water Supply Borehole Drilling and Refurbishment across the British Isles – Drilcorp goes island hopping

Drilcorp’s drillers and engineers have certainly been gaining their sea legs in recent months. We have worked across the length…

The Hole Report: Borehole Verticality & Alignment – An Exercise In Precision!

“Vertical means at right angles to a horizontal plane; in a direction such that the top is directly above the…

Geobor S Successfully Maintains Verticality On Minesource Investigation Boreholes

Drilcorp was recently commissioned to carry out an investigation to pinpoint locations that would intersect open mine workings for the…

Camping and Glamping

Camping and Glamping-but will you survive the Drought next season. As the camping and caravanning season closes at the end…

Drilcorp stems Artesian Borehole holding up construction works on London site

Drilcorp was recently contacted by a major construction company that had discovered a potential problem on one of their projects…

Borehole Development: Essential fine-tuning to ensure optimal performance

Key Takeaways Effective borehole development is crucial for removing debris and maximising water yield, but is often overlooked or rushed,…

Refurbishment of Public Water Supply Borehole using Borestorer® Impulse Jetting Technology

Drilcorp was recently contacted by a long-standing client with a number of public water supply boreholes. One of their wellfields…

Fantastic Job Opportunity

20/04/2021   Fantastic Job Opportunity   Drilcorp is expanding and looking for enthusiastic trainees to become our next generation drillers…

Frost Protection for Borehole Filtration Equipment

To prevent damage to a borehole that can affect a private water supply during the winter, it’s important that you…

Investigating boreholes in hard-to-reach locations

When the trade division of Drilcorp specialising in borehole maintenance are tasked with carrying out remediation works, the job isn’t…

Dispelling common borehole myths

Some businesses use large volumes of water. Many business owners do not realise that there may be an alternative source…

Why is it important to maintain your water supply borehole?

A water supply borehole can be a major asset giving a constant supply of good quality water at a high…

Summer news update: Adjusting to the ‘New Normal’

The environment in which we work has changed over the last few months, our commitment to our customers remains the…

Mud treatment systems: the future of drilling?

At Drilcorp we are always striving to keep up-to-date with new techniques, methods and equipment, so that we can continuously…

Labour MP shows support for local borehole business campaigning for low carbon technology

The Labour MP for Easington has paid a visit to Drilcorp – an established borehole drilling and engineering company based…

Drilcorp welcomes new Project Manager to the team

We are delighted to welcome Dionne, who has joined us as Project Manager of our Geotechnical Exploration Services (GES) and…

Drilcorp assist in controlling Malawi artesian borehole

Climate Justice Fund Phase II – Artesian Well Capping Exercise and Training In October 2016 a team from the University…

Borestorer cleans brewery borehole.

Case Study- Using Borestorer to clean a brewery borehole Client                          UK Brewery Location                     UK Midlands Product                      Borestorer Project…