Drilling Rig Manufacturer Demo Sets New Drilling Record
100 Meters Drilled in Less than Two Hours
In a recent demonstration utilizing its SmartROC series of crawler drilling rigs, Atlas Copco says it set an industry record for drills of its class. The initial goal of the demo was to drill 100 meters in less than two hours using less than 40 liters of fuel. The SmartROC T40 model got the job done in one hour and 53 minutes, using just 34.5 liters of fuel.
Hole straightness of the five holes drilled during the test was 90 percent. That translates to 18 of every 20 drill meters being perfectly straight. Atlas Copco touts SmartROC technology not just for its economical productivity, but its high precision, saying an industry standard for similar drilling would be about 16 gallons.