Colin Rice Exploration Drilling Advisory is a leading provider of training and consulting services to the exploration drilling industry. Based on our 34 years of experience in many sectors of the drilling industry, we have developed a unique combination of high quality training, consulting, safety auditing services and our newest addition, DrillSafe Southern Africa! Our company has developed a strong reputation for delivering outstanding quality services based on sound technical ability, independent opinions and absolute integrity.
We see three key roles that have a vital impact on the safety of an exploration drilling operation - the supervisor, geologist and safety officer. We acknowledge that each of these roles require very specific knowledge and skill sets, so our online certificate programs are broken down according to these:
Supervisor programs:
Directional drilling
Geologist programs:
Drilling skills for geologists (endorsed by the Geological Society of South Africa)
Safety officer programs:
Drill rig inspector
We have a range of online and face-to-face short courses too. Visit our training page for more info.
Our consulting services include assisting mining, exploration and contracting companies to improve production, efficiency and safety performance. More recently, we have become increasingly involved in assisting several mining companies and research organisations in the development of tender specifications and in the evaluation of tender submissions. An extension of this part of our services is assisting in the resolution of disputes between contractors and clients.
Management of safety on drill sites has assumed increasing importance in recent years and a key element of any safety management system is objective third party audits of drilling operations. We are uniquely placed to offer independent, objective and thorough safety auditing services to mining and contracting companies based on a full evaluation of the four critical components of drill site safety - equipment, people, environmental issues and operational procedures.
Our safety auditing services provide our customers with an in depth report on their current safety status and recommendations to improve performance.
DrillSafe Southern Africa is our online safety initiative, which aims to improve safety performance on all drill sites by increasing the knowledge and understanding of major drill site hazards.
We strongly believe that sharing knowledge and experience and then learning from it, is the only way that we can achieve the industry objectives of “no repeats” and “zero harm” and so, every month we publish a series of technical articles that examine and explain the major hazards associated with exploration drilling operations.
