Many years of worldwide experience combined with an energetic,
problem-solving approach means Mudtech are well placed to help you
when ground conditions start eating into your schedule.
This is particularly applicable to problems with:
• EPB and pumped muck
• Slurry systems
• Environmental issues
• HDD and borehole instability and break out
• Friction issues
• Dust control
... and we're always interested in new challenges.
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Many years of worldwide experience combined with an energetic,
problem-solving approach means Mudtech are well placed to help you
when ground conditions start eating into your schedule.
This is particularly applicable to problems with:
- EPB and pumped muck
- Slurry systems
- Environmental issues
- HDD and borehole instability and break out
- Friction issues
- Dust control
... and we're always interested in new challenges
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Some typical problems
- Breakout
- Environmental issues
- Excessive mud and chemical consumption
- Excessive slurry disposal volume and cost
- Gravel and cobbles
- High annulus friction
- High muck friction in the head
- Ineffective flocculation
- Muck unacceptable for low cost disposal
- Pumped muck will not pump
- Silt and sand in invert
- Sloughing sands and shales
- Slow progress in clay
- Slurry density rise
- Slurry loss to ground
- Subsidence/heave from over/under mining
- Swelling clays
- Time lost from dumping and diluting
- Underperformance of centrifuges etc
- Washout at head
- Water production from face - unable to form plug