Paradigm Drilling Services has had a strong start to 2012, securing over £1 million of new contracts in the UK and overseas. The Aberdeenshire-based firm has signed a five-year lease on a 3,000 square-foot building adjacent to its headquarters on Thainstone Business Park, including workshop and office space to expand its research and development facilities with new drilling technology to be launched later this year. A recruitment drive is underway. More than 30 people are now in place…