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Our company carries out water drilling operations in two ways, taking into account the geological characteristics of the site.

ROTARY (MUD) DRILLING IN LOOSE SOILS
Rotary-mud drilling is applied in soils composed of loose materials such as clay, sand, and gravel, as these materials can crumble and collapse during drilling. To eliminate the disadvantages of water circulation in disturbed formations, a mud is created by adding various additives to the circulating material to provide a higher density and viscosity than water, as well as gel strength. This mud is called "drilling mud." These additives must remain suspended in water for an extended period.

To achieve this, materials such as clay and bentonite are used. Other substances may also be added to affect density and viscosity. By rotating a cutting and grinding drill, the fragments broken within the ground are expelled by means of drilling mud, and the ground is drilled by advancing through the resulting cavity. Water or drilling mud, drawn from the pool by the machine's pump, passes through pipes called the drilling rig, which transmit the rotational movement it receives from the motor to the drill, and rises to the ground through the space between the drilling rig and the well wall.

PNEUMATIC DRILLING IN HARD AND ROCKY SOILS
In cases where hard and rock formations have many fissures and cracks, the drilling mud escapes through these cracks, and normal circulation cannot be achieved. In such cases, since mud drilling is not economical, pressurized air drilling is used.

In air drilling, the formation to be drilled must not be prone to collapse, must not contain sticky materials such as clay, and the amount of moisture or water within the formation must not prevent the removal of the cuttings.

In air drilling, compressed air is used instead of drilling fluid. Air-powered water drilling machines, designed to use mud and air, are useful for dry, arid, or fractured limestone formations where circulation cannot be ensured. In other words, it is a rotary drilling method where the cleaning process is done with air. In air drilling, a compressor takes over the function of a mud pump.