BOREHOLES ARE OUR BUSINESS. Drilcorp has served the growing demand for Independent Water Supply Boreholes to the Public and Commercial Sectors throughout the United Kingdom for thirty years offering a complete service from initial feasibility study through licensing, construction, development, installing, testing, commissioning. For existing borehole owners, Drilcorp will refurbish, clean, replace broken components, survey, and offer a maintenance package in the form of a business continuity plan for peace of mind in the event of an unexpected failure. If anyone needs a borehole to be decommissioned and abandoned Drilcorp will handle this in accordance with exacting Environment Agency standards. Drilcorp also constructs boreholes for the Groundsource industry regularly completing contracts for Open Loop, Closed Loop, and Mine Source Clients. Our Geotechnical & Exploration division carries out work for Geotechnical Site Investigation, Monitoring, Probing and Mineral Exploration Clients. We operate a fleet of remote-controlled track mounted compressors which are available for hire. Our management team have many years of experience in trouble shooting drilling and borehole problems and have helped Clients worldwide to overcome challenging situations.

Apex was set up in 1992 to provide specialist drilling services to the South Wales coal industry and since then has rapidly grown and diversified to become one of the major drilling contractors in the UK. The management team and drill crews have a wealth of experience in all aspects of drilling and pride themselves in providing a professional, high quality and cost effective service. Unsurprisingly, the company still specialises in mineral exploration drilling and provides drilling advice and services to all of the major public and private coal prospecting and mining companies across the UK. Through careful strategic acquisitions, Apex now has one of the largest modern fleets of drilling rigs in the UK and has expanded to provide drilling services to site investigation, water well and geothermal (ground source) projects.

With a fleet of over 60 drilling rigs including mini-rigs, geotechnical rigs and ’dual head’ rigs we can offer a broad range of drilling services and drilling techniques to suit any application. Our experienced team provides a comprehensive range of key drilling and grouting services covering everything from site investigation drilling to mine workings and mineshaft stabilisation, mini-piling to soil nailing and deep wells to compaction grouting. We have an enviable reputation for problem solving, quality and client focus and with our extensive in-house knowledge and expertise we are happy to work with designers, developers, project managers and main contractors to provide technical advice and innovative ideas for any scheme.

Hughes Drilling was established over 30 years ago and remains one of the UK’s leading mineral exploration & environmental drilling companies servicing the UK’s largest quarrying and aggregate firms. With a diverse range of specialized drilling rigs and equipment for low-ground pressure services including sonic and exploration drilling/inclined and directional/core/wireline and conventional/RC drilling, CFA, HSA utilizing triple tube systems. We also specialize in the drilling and installations for geothermal GSHP systems and water boreholes from the small domestic client through to the larger commercial projects. Health and Safety on every project is key, we are proud accredited members of 'Avetta', (formerly PICS), with membership to the Well Drillers Association.

In 2023, the best businesses in their respective fields were brought together as Igne to deliver integrated site investigation, UXO, testing, sustainable drilling, geo-environmental, geothermal and water supply services. The combing companies, which have a shared experience of over 350 years, were: Allied Exploration & Geotechnics, DTS Raeburn, Raeburn Drilling & Geotechnical, SafeLane Global (UK UXO), Terra Tek and WB & AD Morgan. Igne’s team includes experienced engineers and skilled scientists who utilise specialist plant and equipment; our size and reach mean we have the capacity to deliver solutions nationwide; and Igne’s integrated offering ensures we can support the entire lifecycle of your project or simply supply a standalone service.

Part of the WJ Group, WJ UK offers a complete groundwater control and management service, which encompasses design, installation and maintenance programmes to businesses throughout the UK and Ireland. Working within many industry sectors, we are proud to have been part of some of the smallest and the largest infrastructure schemes across the UK. With over 40 years of experience and more than 3,100 projects to our name, we are dedicated to investing in technology to constantly improve the services we provide. Our innovative technology and systems provide us with an unrivalled service of which we are immensely proud. We deliver an outstanding service to clients of all size, from simple residential groundwater control to large-scale national water management and instrumentation projects. From design solutions to construction dewatering and plenty in between, every one of our staff share one key objective – delivering confidence through excellence.

For over 40 years J P Whitter Waterwell Engineers have been water well drilling, maintaining, refurbishing and decommissioning boreholes, wells and adits. We are among the most experienced borehole and water well engineers in the UK, we also provide maintenance services to keep your pumps and equipment in good working order.