Churchill Drilling Invests and Expands
Churchill Drilling Tools Targets More Success With Product Reliability. Aberdeen-based drilling systems specialist Churchill Drilling Tools is to invest half a million pounds and expand its workforce to meet growing demand for its revolutionary technology. The company is on course to record a turnover of £3.5million in this financial year with results up by about 30% on 2011. With more than a decade of hydraulic design experience, Churchill Drilling Tools has produced a range of patented performance and safety improvement technologies, used by more than 50 operators worldwide.
Royston Earns Solstad Approval
Three weeks of intensive work late last year by engineers from Royston Limited has won praise from the operators of the Normand Installer after it was found to need an urgent engine overhaul before resuming work off West Africa. The 14,506 gt offshore construction support vessel is notable for having a 350 tonne capacity A-frame, 250 and 50 tonne heavy lift cranes, carousel cable/pipe laying system, 500 tonne anchor handling/towing winch system and DP3 dynamic positioning system.
