Specialist soil testing, drilling, data management and engineering design support
RSK has extensive experience of providing geotechnical site investigation and engineering design support for major oil companies in southern Iraq, including Basrah Gas Company, Shell Iraq Petroleum Development and Rumaila Operating Organisation.
Our geotechnical field teams comprise expatriate lead drillers and Iraqi support drillers and technicians. Our design team advises on foundation and retaining wall design, pile design, ground improvement methods, highway construction and general earthworks design. We have a fleet of in-country drilling rigs, including five Dando cable percussion rigs, a Commachio rotary rig, two Archway Competitor rigs and a track-mounted dynamic cone penetrometer test rig.
We can provide a full suite of geotechnical analyses at our fully ISO/IEC 17025 accredited geoenvironmental laboratory in Iraq Energy City. This enables our specialist design engineers to offer a full service to the infrastructure development and design team.