Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
UNDER ROADS. UNDER CHANNELS. RIGHT ON TARGET.
Crossroad Drilling LLC is a UAE based HDD specialist. Trenchless pipeline crossings beneath live roads, utilities and sea channels, steered by ParaTrack gyro precision.
How HDD works
One crossing. Zero disruption.
Scroll to drill. This is how every Crossroad bore goes in: beneath the asphalt, the utilities and the water, without a single open trench.
Pilot bore
A steerable drill head enters at a shallow angle and tracks a pre-engineered curve beneath the obstacle, guided in real time by ParaTrack gyro and walkover locating.
Reaming
The pilot hole is enlarged in staged passes with reamers matched to the soil strata, conditioned with engineered drilling fluid from our mixing plants.
Pullback
The welded, tested pipe string is pulled back through the reamed bore in one continuous, controlled operation.
On grade. On line.
The pipeline exits exactly where the design says it should. Traffic above never stopped. That is the Crossroad standard.
IN THE FIELD
About the company
The HDD sub-contractor the UAE builds on
Crossroad Drilling LLC is a UAE based HDD sub-contractor specializing in laying pipelines, from mini, midi and maxi rig crossings to long, large-diameter bores and sea channel crossings, all steered with advanced HDD technology.
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What we put underground
ALL SERVICES →Road & highway crossings
Trenchless pipeline installation beneath live carriageways to ADM standards, with traffic flowing above throughout.
EXPLORE → 02Sea channel crossings
Long, large-diameter bores beneath marine channels and waterways, engineered for pressure, buoyancy and strata.
EXPLORE → 03ParaTrack gyro steering
Prime Horizontal ParaTrack 2 gyro guidance for survey-grade accuracy on long crossings where walkover locating cannot reach.
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PLAN YOUR BORE
BEFORE YOU CALL US.
Interactive engineering tools built by our drilling team: design a bore profile, size the rig, check pipe bend radius and estimate drilling fluid, right in your browser.
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Insights
FROM THE BORE LOG
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HDD Basics
What Is Horizontal Directional Drilling and Why the UAE Relies on It
HDD installs pipelines beneath live roads, utilities and waterways without a single open trench. Here is how the method works and why it has become the default for UAE infrastructure.
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Engineering
Pilot Bore, Reaming, Pullback: The Three Stages of Every HDD Crossing
Every successful crossing follows the same disciplined sequence. Understanding the three stages explains most of what happens on an HDD site, and most of what can go wrong when they are rushed.
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Marine Crossings
Crossing the Water: How Sea Channel HDD Projects Are Engineered
Marine crossings are the deep end of trenchless engineering. Pressure, buoyancy and unknown strata all conspire against the bore. Here is how long water crossings are designed to succeed.
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