Critical trenchless installations require fluid systems designed for actual ground conditions. How Blick uses geotechnical reports, formation samples, and site photos to build tailored fluid programmes.
The Challenge
Critical trenchless installations fail when fluid programmes are built on averages. Three ground-related problems require specific targeted solutions: reactive clay requiring swelling prevention, filtration loss requiring filter cake control, and insufficient cuttings suspension requiring gel strength adjustment.
The Approach
Blick requests geotechnical reports, formation samples, and site photographs before designing any fluid programme. We develop tailored solutions to address hole cleaning, filtration control, and pressure management specific to each project — not generic averages. This applies to HDD, piling, and tunnel boring operations.
The Outcome
Tailored programmes reduce bore instability, fluid loss events, and reactive on-site changes. Sending your geotech report before project start is the single highest-value action a driller can take.
The Full Story
At Blick, we design drilling fluid programs, to optimise the success of drilling, piling and tunnel boring.
Critical trenchless installations require a fluid system that is optimised to the ground conditions that will be encountered. At Blick, customers send us geotechnical reports, samples of formations or even photos to allow us to understand their conditions. Using this information we will design a fluid system to maximise their success.
Different formations require different solutions:
- Reactive clay may require treatment to prevent swelling
- Filtration control may need to be managed to prevent fluid loss
- Gel strength or carrying capacity may need to be added to allow effective hole cleaning.
When we build a programme, we don't build it based on the averages. Instead, we develop tailored solutions to address hole cleaning, filtration control, and pressure management specific to your situation, geotech information and equipment.
Call us to discuss the formation of your next project to see where Blick makes a difference.