Apex was set up in 1992 to provide specialist drilling services to the South Wales coal industry and since then has rapidly grown and diversified to become one of the major drilling contractors in the UK. The management team and drill crews have a wealth of experience in all aspects of drilling and pride themselves in providing a professional, high quality and cost effective service. Unsurprisingly, the company still specialises in mineral exploration drilling and provides drilling advice and services to all of the major public and private coal prospecting and mining companies across the UK. Through careful strategic acquisitions, Apex now has one of the largest modern fleets of drilling rigs in the UK and has expanded to provide drilling services to site investigation, water well and geothermal (ground source) projects.

With a fleet of over 60 drilling rigs including mini-rigs, geotechnical rigs and ’dual head’ rigs we can offer a broad range of drilling services and drilling techniques to suit any application. Our experienced team provides a comprehensive range of key drilling and grouting services covering everything from site investigation drilling to mine workings and mineshaft stabilisation, mini-piling to soil nailing and deep wells to compaction grouting. We have an enviable reputation for problem solving, quality and client focus and with our extensive in-house knowledge and expertise we are happy to work with designers, developers, project managers and main contractors to provide technical advice and innovative ideas for any scheme.

M&J Drilling Services is a specialist contractor involved in the development and delivery of geotechnical solutions to various ground problems. The main activities of the company are drilling (rotary and rotary percussive) and grouting, and the list that follows gives details of the applications: Rotary Investigation (open hole, coring and installations); Stabilisation of shallow mineworkings; Mineshaft location and treatment; Void infilling (large mine workings) and other underground stabilisation works (cellars and tanks); Soil nails and ground anchors; Sewer and tunnel grouting;

Part of the WJ Group, WJ UK offers a complete groundwater control and management service, which encompasses design, installation and maintenance programmes to businesses throughout the UK and Ireland. Working within many industry sectors, we are proud to have been part of some of the smallest and the largest infrastructure schemes across the UK. With over 40 years of experience and more than 3,100 projects to our name, we are dedicated to investing in technology to constantly improve the services we provide. Our innovative technology and systems provide us with an unrivalled service of which we are immensely proud. We deliver an outstanding service to clients of all size, from simple residential groundwater control to large-scale national water management and instrumentation projects. From design solutions to construction dewatering and plenty in between, every one of our staff share one key objective – delivering confidence through excellence.

ADP Group Ltd have been trading since 1983, in both the Agricultural and Civil Engineering industries, prior to diversifying and concentrating on the ground investigation industry in 2006; ADP Group Ltd was then incorporated as a Limited company in 2007. Based in the South West of England, close to both the M4 and M5 motorways, with a Northern Regional Office near Warrington; ADP Group are well placed to cover the UK and Mainland Europe from our state-of-the-art, environmentally friendly, company owned premises. Specialists in the provision of sub-contracted drilling and vacuum excavation operations, ADP Group are also able to provide many intrusive ground investigation services; services include hydro & pneumatic vacuum & suction excavation, concrete coring, rotary open hole, wireline & conventional rotary coring. We also have teams and rigs specifically suited to boreholes for both ground source heat pumps and water abstraction. We have an in-house division specialising in all forms of utility and topographical surveying, services include PAS 128 surveys, utility mapping, GPR surveys & service clearance. We are fortunate to have the very best, most experienced surveyors in their field, utilising the most up-to-date, state-of-the-art equipment available. ADP Group are RISQS accredited and audited, and act as the primary sponsor for PTS qualified staff providing site investigation services on the rail network throughout the UK. ADP Group also hold certification/accreditation to ISO9001, ISO45001, FORS (Bronze), Safecontractor, ConstructionLine & SMAS Worksafe. We are members of The British Drilling Association, The Ground Source Heat Pump Association & The Survey Association.

BOREHOLES ARE OUR BUSINESS. Drilcorp has served the growing demand for Independent Water Supply Boreholes to the Public and Commercial Sectors throughout the United Kingdom for thirty years offering a complete service from initial feasibility study through licensing, construction, development, installing, testing, commissioning. For existing borehole owners, Drilcorp will refurbish, clean, replace broken components, survey, and offer a maintenance package in the form of a business continuity plan for peace of mind in the event of an unexpected failure. If anyone needs a borehole to be decommissioned and abandoned Drilcorp will handle this in accordance with exacting Environment Agency standards. Drilcorp also constructs boreholes for the Groundsource industry regularly completing contracts for Open Loop, Closed Loop, and Mine Source Clients. Our Geotechnical & Exploration division carries out work for Geotechnical Site Investigation, Monitoring, Probing and Mineral Exploration Clients. We operate a fleet of remote-controlled track mounted compressors which are available for hire. Our management team have many years of experience in trouble shooting drilling and borehole problems and have helped Clients worldwide to overcome challenging situations.

We are a specialist mine workings remediation contractor. We carry out the treatment of shallow mine workings, mine shafts and adits, by drilling and grouting. We also carry out exploratory rotary drilling to investigate for the presence of shallow coal seams and mine workings. We also undertake bulk void filling (eg sewers, culverts and the like).

Hughes Drilling was established over 30 years ago and remains one of the UK’s leading mineral exploration & environmental drilling companies servicing the UK’s largest quarrying and aggregate firms. With a diverse range of specialized drilling rigs and equipment for low-ground pressure services including sonic and exploration drilling/inclined and directional/core/wireline and conventional/RC drilling, CFA, HSA utilizing triple tube systems. We also specialize in the drilling and installations for geothermal GSHP systems and water boreholes from the small domestic client through to the larger commercial projects. Health and Safety on every project is key, we are proud accredited members of 'Avetta', (formerly PICS), with membership to the Well Drillers Association.

For over 40 years J P Whitter Waterwell Engineers have been water well drilling, maintaining, refurbishing and decommissioning boreholes, wells and adits. We are among the most experienced borehole and water well engineers in the UK, we also provide maintenance services to keep your pumps and equipment in good working order.