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About Batten Drilling, Inc.

Batten Drilling, Inc., under the ownership and management of Michael C. Batten, has been in business ten years and currently owns and operates nine truck-mounted Texoma drilling rigs, one crane attachment and one skid steer. The company has extensive experience in drilled and underrreamed footing construction including rock drilling, temporary casing and slurry displacement method where required due to water and soil conditions. The fleet consists of one Caterpillar skid steer for tight and low-clearance drilling, one Stewart & Stevenson crane attachment capable of drilling up to 168" shaft up to 100' deep and belling out to 216", three Texoma 270 machines capable of drilling 20 feet, three 600 machines capable of drilling 35 feet, two 700 machines capable of drilling shafts up to 120" in diameter and to approximately 65 feet in depth and one 900 machine capable of drilling 100 feet. Travel radius is dependent upon size of project, typically Texas and surrounding states.

Batten Drilling will work with the supervisor in scheduling the appropriate size and number of rigs. Batten Drilling has all tooling necessary to efficiently complete a project. Should casing be required, Batten Drilling will mobilize specified steel pipe to the site. Procedure includes over sizing hole, setting temporary steel pipe to seal hole, cleaning out the shaft and pulling pipe as concrete is pumped into hole. Batten Drillling is currently using a vibratory hammer to seat casing into a sand layer and retrieve casing after concrete is pumped into hole where needed. In certain instances the slurry displacement method may be required. Procedure consists of the use of polymer or bentonite slurry to seal drilled shaft in order to excavate to the required depth. Once at desired depth, steel reinforcing and concrete form are set and concrete is then poured into processed shaft either by pump truck or tremie pipe to bottom of hole while slurry is pumped from the top by a vacuum truck. In addition to slurry experience on commercial jobs, Batten Drilling, Inc. has completed over 400 cell tower sites with one to three shafts being required on each site. The majority of these shafts, ranging in sizes up to 108" X 52', were processed by the slurry displacement method.

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