General Capabilities and Services
As horizontal directional drilling specialists, Directional Technologies, Inc. has extensive experience and all necessary equipment for making trenchless installations for a wide range of clients from telecommunications electrical, natural gas, water mains and other utility services, especially in New England’s varied and difficult soil conditions. Project requirements have ranged from placing 2-inch single-conduit material to 20-inch pipe.
In addition, DTI is one of the few directional drilling contractors experienced in using the technology to install horizontal remediation wells for environmental remediation applications and provides construction-related services for installing horizontal remediation wells including:
- Horizontal Soil Sampling
- Planning and preliminary consulting to engineers and site managers as they assess technical appropriateness of horizontal wells. Assistance may include:
- Assistance in selecting remediation equipment and horizontal well materials
- Assistance in horizontal well design
- Constructability review to assist design engineers with practical insights for efficient implementation of horizontal well designs
- Construction of horizontal wells including
- On-Site planning for proposed bore paths
- Equipment mobilization
- Horizontal Boring
- Screen fabrication and placement
- Horizontal well development
- Assistance with system startup, performance monitoring, and performance evaluation
- Turnkey design-build remediation

