Geoquip Marine Information

Geoquip Marine is a geotechnical data acquisition company safely delivering offshore geotechnical site investigations and engineering services to clients worldwide. Headquartered in Switzerland with offices and a geotechnical laboratory in the United Kingdom, we are a specialist offshore geotechnics service provider primarily focusing on heave compensated drilling, sampling and in-situ testing. Our in-house designed drill rigs operate in water depths from 10m to 3500m. Besides downhole sampling and testing, we also provide a number of seabed in-situ testing tools, including our 200kN (20 tonne) seabed Cone Penetration Testing (PCPT) systems capable of acquiring continuous data up to 50m below the seabed. We are at the forefront of deep water drilling developments for offshore geotechnical purposes, currently operating a 120t drill rig capable of handling 2500m of drill pipe and a 150t drill rig capable of handling 3500m of drill pipe. These spreads are capable of handling up to 6m of heave compensation and have a full suite of downhole geotechnical sampling and in situ testing tools.