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Sunhour Drilling Botswana

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Fleet

Rigs on the ground

Owned, maintained and crewed in Botswana. Specifications below are as deployed, not as catalogued.

JY 600 crawler-mounted drilling rig 1 unit

JY 600 Drilling Rig

Crawler mounted

Power
Yuchai 92kW Four-Cylinder
Head torque
1,400 Nm at up to 1,400 rpm
Pullback
240 kN lift, 120 kN feed
Wireline winch
800m of 6mm rope at 110 m/min
Depth
650m BTW, 600m NTW, 300m HTW
JX 1500 crawler-mounted drilling rig 1 unit

JX 1500 Drilling Rig

Crawler mounted

Power
Cummins diesel, 194kW on the 2.0 spec
Head torque
1,800 Nm at up to 1,300 rpm
Pullback
25t lift, 3.6m head stroke, 6.6m max
Rods
76 to 122mm, 1.5 / 3 / 6m lengths
Depth
1500m

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