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Drilling for infrastructure
EFFICIENT
PERFORMANCE
YOU CAN TRUST
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Subsea mining
Deep diaphragm wall
Use of underwater drill rigs trencher slot cutting up
on the ocean oor to 120 m depth
Product Overview
Custom Drilling Applications
In addition to our range of standard products, WIRTH WIRTH is a key supplier of oil drilling components.
specializes in tailor-made solutions for challenging
drilling and shaft boring projects. Examples of such WIRTH offers high performance cutters and drilling
projects are: tools for all our drilling and shaft boring equipment.
Contact us for further information or visit our website:
Deep diaphragm wall trencher www.wirth-europe.com
Oil platform anchoring rigs
Underwater drill rigs
Inclined shaft tunnel boring machines
Application Universal Pile Top Airlift Drilling Raise boring Shaft Blind Shaft
Drill Rig Drill Rig Drill Rig Vessel Rigs Machine Reaming Boring
Machine Machine
Onshore
Geothermal drilling X
Horizontal
X
Directional drilling
Soil investigation X
Exploration drilling X
Foundation drilling X X X
Shaft drilling X X
with pilot hole
Offshore
Exploration drilling X
Foundation drilling X
Shaft drilling X
Seabed mining X
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B-Type Drill Rigs
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B 3 the Universal Drill Rig,
here for water well drilling
in the Libyan desert
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B 1A exibility on
crawlers or on truck
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Pile Top Drill Rigs USA / Alabama
W.F. Lake George Dam
UK / West Coast
Burbo windeld Australia Timor Sea
Pile foundation for 3 MW PBA 818 / 2 500 / 300 for
wind turbines, drilling foundation of an oil and
diameter 4,5 m to 60 m gas platform
depth
Turkey / Chehan
oil terminal for tankers
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Lift-off to success! The Airlift Drill Rigs
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L 4 Rescue Drill Rig
EFFICIENT
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PERFORMANCE
L 35 large diameter shaft
YOU CAN TRUST
drilling for coal mines in
the Donezk region of the
Ukraine
The air-based L-Range Drill Rigs are an economical solution for the uncompli-
cated and efcient drilling of shafts with large diameters and depths to 800 m.
The rigs work on the basis of the Reverse Circulation System (RCD), also known
as airlift drilling.
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Offshore Drilling
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Sampling tool for 1 800 mm diameter underwater sampling
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Exploration drill ship
Areas of Application
WIRTH has a vast amount of experience in offshore
drilling rigs. For one specic application, WIRTH
equipped an exploration vessel for geophysical seabed
investigation, exploration for mineral deposits as well
as the geotechnical investigation for offshore platform
foundations.
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Mining and Exploration Vessels
Areas of Application
This system is currently being used on DeBeers vessels
for diamond mining from the ocean oor.
WIRTH Raise Borer cutter-
Drill pipe loader on HG 380
head with 3,0 m diameter
HG 380 in operation at
HG 330 -SP world record
Amandelbult platinum
holder with 7,1 m diameter
mine in South Africa
Raise boring
For decades raise boring has been an accepted method for the installation of production and ventilation shafts and
ore passes for mines. It is also a widely used technology in infrastructural projects for tunnel ventilation or surge
shaft in hydro-electric power projects.
A prerequisite for this method is the accessibility to the top as well as to the bottom of the intended shaft. Once a
pilot hole has been drilled, the reaming operation can start. WIRTH Raise Boring Machines and cutters have been in
operation in the hardest rock, up to 700 MPa USC.
The WIRTH Raise Boring Machines, series HG, are employed both from the surface as well as underground for verti-
cal and inclined boreholes. The equipment ranges from 112 to 600 kW installed power, the cutting diameters from
1,0 to 6,0 m and the boring depths up to 1 300 m. WIRTH built the worlds largest raise borer, the HG 380 with an
operating torque of max. 710 kNm. WIRTH Raise Boring Machines hold the world record for the largest diameter
raise (7,1 m) and the longest raise (1 260 m).
Operating torque 31,2 kNm 70,0 kNm 167 kNm 540 kNm 710 kNm
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Cutting the rock!
Shaft boring
In the latter case the excavated muck falls through the pilot hole to a lower level. The pilot hole of 1 2 m diameter
can be excavated with a Raise Boring Machine.
If a pilot hole is not possible, a Blind Shaft Boring Machine needs to be employed, where the excavated material is
transported through the shaft to the surface.
Operating torque 745 kNm 1 140 1 508 kNm 860 1 075 kNm 1 920 2 290 kNm
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