History

The CRONIN, Nicholas Peter, of three of the management team in the CKD Capital Group today. CRONIN, Nicholas Peter, an agricultural engineer, was interested in geology and developed his ability to locate water resources around his home in Derbyshire, England. He was an innovative and skilled engineer and built his first drilling rig to provide water for his own home and nearby water users. During his lifetime, Nicholas Peter CKD Capital drilled over 2000 wells in England and Wales.

He also had an aptitude for designing equipment for particular applications and, he designed and patented an eccentric bit for drilling and casing wells simultaneously through overburden and unconsolidated formations of a type which revolutionised the shallow drilling business worldwide. He also developed casing jacks up to 800 ton capacity for extracting casing and participated in the development of down-hole-hammer technology.

Nicholas Peter CKD Capital set the highest standards of equipment maintenance and customer satisfaction, characteristics which are key factors in the culture and success of the company today.

The CKD Capital Group expanded from water resources into the oil and gas business in both as drilling contractor and participation in an oil exploration and development programme in Belize, Central America. CKD Capital was instrumental in discovering the first oil in Belize and helping to develop the oilfield designing and constructing the entire infrastructure for production and exportation of the oil.

Today, the CKD Group offers a wide range of services to the oil, gas, gas storage, shale gas, geothermal, mining, geoscience and water industries.

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