Features

ConeTec installs in house or third party downhole hardware from reputable instrumentation manufacturing firms. For push-in applications, we use proprietary designs adapting conventional instruments to ConeTec’s push-in methodology.

For instrument monitoring solutions, ConeTec will procure and provide the best product for the job. This may include modern commercial monitoring equipment, or our proprietary VEGA Data Loggers (an in-house rugged and robust solution for cloud based instrumentation monitoring).

The following types of instrumentation may be installed using push-in techniques or conventionally in a borehole:

  • Vibrating wire or transducer type electric piezometers
  • Measurand ShapeArrays (SAA)
  • Thermistors
  • Geophones (vibration monitoring)
  • Small diameter pre-packed monitoring wells
  • Temporary wells (ie hydropunch)
  • Soil moisture sensors

Borehole installation only:

  • Slope inclinometer casing
  • Settlement gauges
  • Conventional monitoring wells
  • Multilevel monitoring wells
  • Pneumatic piezometers
  • Total stress cells
  • Other borehole instrumentation

Advantages

ConeTec is a full-service instrumentation provider:

  • Geophysics, in-situ testing and drilling to characterize the site and groundwater
  • Instrumentation install design and procurement
  • Installation and as-built reporting
  • Monitoring
  • Decommissioning
  • Qualified site investigation professionals plan and execute the work
  • Multiple installation methods available from a variety of equipment types
  • Detailed installation reports and as-built information
  • Preferred vendor relationships with all major suppliers