Two workshops are also available for lease. Both measure 15m by 7m, with roller shutter doors on both sides. They are heated and are fully serviced with power, compressed air, and water. One has a 10 ton overhead travelling crane. The other houses junction boxes into instrumentation cabling running from the rig and the high pressure well. It is possible to arrange desks and chairs to give working accommodation within the workshops, or to install temporary portable offices if required.
The building also houses DTC's own rig workshop and drilling equipment store.
A roadway runs around the site. the area within the roadway is surfaced with either concrete or granular hardstanding, and can accept a 10 ton axle loading. Street lighting of the roadway and the site permits working beyond daylight hours.
The rig is mounted on a 62m skid track. consisting of two parallel steel plates running N-S. Initially, three well cellars have been constructed, 24m from well-centre to well-centre. The skid track can accommodate up to 9 cellars, allowing extra wells to be drilled as the demand arises. Each cellar is 3.5m by 3.5m and 2.75m deep. Two steel beams run across each cellar. These normally support gratings, but can be used to support well-site equipment, such as the wireline mast, up to a total load of 4.6 tonnes.
Opposite each well cellar two pad-eyes are set into the edge of the granular hardstanding adjacent to the roadway. These support lateral loads of up to 9.6 tonnes. They permit wireline units to be restrained during tool running and retrieving.
The area surrounding the skid track and between it and the building is surfaced with concrete. an instrumentation duct, covered with lift-off cast reinforced concrete plates, runs around this conrete-surfaced area. Cables are laid in the duct from the Martin Decker Spectrum 1000 signal conditioning unit in the SCR house, from the rig and from high pressure well cellar into workshop No. 3
High pressure pipe-work runs from the mud pumps and the cemeting unit to connections adjacent to each cellar. This pipework is laid inside a sub-surface 1m square cross-section duct. This too is covered with lift-off reinforced concrete slabs.