Devico AS

Devico AS

Type	Private
Industry	Mining Services and drilling
Founded	1988
Headquarters	Melhus, Norway
Products	Directional core drilling and borehole survey tools
Website	www.devico.com

Devico AS is the sole company to offer directional core drilling services worldwide. Devico AS also rents various borehole survey instruments for the mining industry and geotechnical projects. The head office is located in Melhus, Norway. The company have until now been operating in more than 30 countries worldwide.

History

Launched in 1988 by Mr. Viktor Tokle.

Introduction

The DeviDrill, Devico AS directional core barrel and rotary steerable system, was launched in 1988. It was in use until 2001 when the wireline version of the DeviDrill was introduced. The new version was a big improvement since it allows the drill string to stay in the borehole during steering and coring.

Devico AS has developed their own set of borehole survey instruments to be used together with the DeviDrill. In 2002 a miniature version of the survey tool was launched that made it possible to survey throughout the drill bit.

To survey in magnetic environment, Devico has developed a strain gauge based survey tool named DeviFlex. This tool became available in 2004.

References

www.devico.com