Albion Drilling Group

The Albion Drilling Group is a specialist drilling contractor that helps it's clients by developing the best design for projects, getting enough of the right equipment and well-trained, hardworking personnel on site and having the expertise to deal with unexpected challenges so the job is finished on time and on budget.

The Albion Drilling Group is one of the UK’s largest and most well-respected independent drilling contractors and provides services in the areas of Drilling, Geotechnical Engineering and Piling in the UK, Europe and around the world. Our areas of expertise include:

Drilling Services
- Drilling and Blasting
- Large Diameter Drilling
- King Posts
- Deep Bore Holes

Piling
- Continuous Flight Auger (CFA) Piling
- Bored Piling
- Contiguous Bored Pile Walls
- Mini Piling
- Grouting

Geotechnical
- Soil Nailing
- Slope Stabilisation
- Ground Anchoring
- Retaining Structures
- Rock Bolting
- Soil Nail Walls
- Erosion Control
- Gabion Walls

International
- UK
- Ireland
- Europe
- Middle East
- South East Asia

With The Albion Group you get:

World class resources for quicker project turnaround – a fleet of more than 40 state of the art drilling rigs, and a team of 50 expert operators.

Extensive knowledge in the area of drilling, blasting, ground anchoring, soil nailing, grouting and piling to develop the best approach for your project – over the last 22 years we have worked on over 5000 projects.

Total trust that we will endeavour to keep our promises and get the job done on time – an outstanding record at completing projects before the deadline.

Direct access to the owners for flexibility and customer service.

 

 

Latest News  

Following a serious landslide at Barbadoes Woods in the Wye Valley above Tintern, Albion Drilling has now completed a major ground stabilisation project for the Forestry Commission Wales.

On an extremely restricted site, Albion undertook a difficult soil nailing programme, designed by the Halcrow Group for main contractor, Dean & Dyball Civil Engineering, to provide a long term solution to the instability of the very steep upper hillside in this Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.   Read more...

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Albion Drilling Group is undertaking an important contract at Scottish Power's   new wind farm, at Arecleoch in Ayrshire.

Working for main contractor, Farrans (Construction) Ltd, Albion is drilling and blasting borrow pits to remove rock that will enable the construction of access roads to the site where 60 wind turbines are planned.

Starting in May, the £750k contract will last one year and involve typical drill depths of 12m, a total of 37.5km of drilling.

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The Albion Drilling Group recently completed the blasting of 330,000m³          of rock, 10,000m²of pre-split and        2,750m of stitch drilling during             Phase II of the A1/N1 Newry Bypass      road improvement scheme.

The works posed various technical difficulties due to the proximity of nearby homes, which at times were as close as 25m, and also by being adjacent to both the main Belfast to Dublin railway line and the existing, extremely busy, Newry bypass. This one year contract, for Lagan Ferrovial JV, was won after successfully undertaking Phase I, Dundalk to Newry, during the previous year.   Read more...

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WT Specialist Contracts and Hormell
Engineering Limited have joined Albion Drilling Services as part of the Albion Drilling Group. 

The Albion Drilling Group is pleased to announce this exciting development. The combined operation further strengthens the Albion Drilling Group’s position as one of the largest and most well-respected independent drilling sub-contractors in the UK.  Read more...

 

Albion Engineer in hard hat