BGS
has extensive experience and skills in developing and operating marine
drilling and coring equipment on ships and drilling platforms. We
have a suite of shallow coring equipment that includes drills that
can operate in oceanic water depths. The newest equipment is a 15
m rockdrill that can be deployed in over 3000 m water depth. Further
details are available on the marine
operations pages.
In 2004 we became the co-ordinators of the ECORD Science Operator (ESO) consortium that implements mission-specific platform expeditions for ECORD in the Integrated Ocean Drilling Programme (IODP). In this programme we have successfully managed major international drilling projects on the Lomonosov Ridge near the North Pole, and on the fringing reefs around Tahiti. Future projects include campaigns on the New Jersey margin and the Great Barrier Reef.
Contact Dr Dan Evans for more information.
