Drilling Services

PES in conjunction with Aquifer Drilling and Testing, Inc. (ADT) possess the personnel, equipment and experience to meet all our clients’ environmental drilling needs.  The PES/ADT strategic alignment allows the two firms to combine the varied skills and extensive experiences of their geologist, engineers, licensed drillers, heavy equipment operators, and support personnel.  PES/ADT provide some of the best drill crews in the industry.  Our goal is to make our client’s job easier and to save both time and money. We meet our goal by listening to clients needs and by paying strict attention to safety, logistics and the quality of our work. We stress communication, teamwork, and technical skills.

The cooperative PES/ADT effort brings together all the resources associated with the team’s wide variety of subsurface exploration rigs, geophysical equipment/technologies and support equipment to product a diversified alliance capable of handling projects of virtually any size at any location throughout their service areas.

All work is performed in accordance with State Environmental and ASTM standards.
PES/ADTs experienced crews and wide variety of drilling technologies helps ensure your project is completed right the first time, regardless of lithology. Our environmental drilling services include the following:

Drilling and Soil Probe Methodologies/Services offered by the alliance include:

• Direct Push (Probe)
• Angle probing, from horizontal to vertical, enabling probing under structures and foundations
• Hollow Stem Auger (can install wells up to 10" diameter)
• Air Rotary Casing Hammer
• Air Rotary Odex
• Mud Rotary
• Limited Access Rigs
• All Terrain Track Rigs
• Angle Drilling
• Barge/Over water Drilling

Sampling Equipment

• Split spoons including extra heavy duty samplers for sampling in hard conditions
• 140 and 300 pound drop hammers
• Safety Driver sampling winches on all rigs
• Shelby tubes
• Piston Samplers
• Geoprobe and other "push" sampling equipment
• NQ & HQ (Triple Tube) and 134 mm Wireline coring systems
• Discrete horizon samplers.

The PES/ADT team members are well versed in the installation of domestic supply, remedial and monitoring wells.  The team has performed countless subsurface investigations, geotechnical assays, depth to bedrock studies and geothermal process well installations.  We have performed a number of chemical injection work scopes involving chemical compounds designed to treat varied contaminant constituents of concern existing in overburden and bedrock geologic regimes.