Seaboard Drilling

What Seaboard Drilling does

Seaboard Drilling, LLC is a New England-based drilling services provider and subsidiary of S.W. Cole Engineering, Inc., offering geotechnical and environmental drilling for construction, civil engineering, and environmental consulting clients. The company operates approximately 10 full-time drill crews from four offices (Bangor, ME; Springfield, MA; Somersworth, NH; Riverside, RI) and is licensed to operate across all six New England states. Its core service lines include geotechnical drilling for foundation design and subsurface exploration, environmental drilling for site assessment and groundwater monitoring, and cone penetration testing (CPT) for real-time soil characterization.

The company runs a fleet of more than 15 specialized drill rigs from manufacturers including Diedrich, Mobile, Acker, and Geoprobe, supplemented by a mobile CPT unit, mini-excavators for low-clearance work, and two full-time mechanics plus an in-house fabrication capability. Service offerings span solid and hollow stem augering, mud and air rotary, rock coring (NQ and HQ), standard penetration testing, vane shear testing, monitoring well installation, and well abandonment. The mobile CPT unit can be integrated directly with traditional drill rigs, enabling hybrid subsurface assessments and reducing mobilization costs.

Seaboard Drilling generates revenue through project-based, quote-driven professional services contracts. Pricing is opaque and tailored to each job, with bids submitted via an online Service Manager request form that captures site details, rig type, and prevailing wage requirements. The go-to-market is enterprise field sales directed at engineering firms, construction companies, environmental consultants, and project developers across New England. The company was formed in 2023 when S.W. Cole Engineering, Inc. consolidated Seaboard Drilling Inc. with its existing drilling operations (S.W. Cole Explorations LLC, Allstate Drilling, and Great Works Test Borings), and it remains privately held under the S.W. Cole corporate umbrella with no external institutional or private equity ownership indicated.

Name

Seaboard Drilling

Legal name

Seaboard Drilling, LLC

Website

https://seaboarddrilling.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Seaboard Drilling, LLC is a New England-based drilling services company providing geotechnical, environmental, and cone penetration testing for engineering firms, construction companies, and environmental consultants across six New England states from four regional offices.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Geotechnical Drilling Services

akta.pro primary industry

Exploration & Production Drilling Services (RC, Core, Directional, Sonic, Auger) (IMAKAKAB)

Keywords

• Geotechnical drilling services
• Environmental drilling services
• Cone penetration testing
• Subsurface exploration
• Monitoring well installation

Headquarters

HQ city

Bangor

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Geotechnical Drilling Services: Project-based drilling services providing subsurface exploration for civil and geotechnical engineers, including soil sampling, rock coring, and CPT testing for foundation design and construction projects.
2. Environmental Drilling Services: Environmental drilling services including soil/bedrock/groundwater sample collection, monitoring well installation, vapor extraction wells, and well abandonment for environmental site assessments and remediation projects.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Seaboard Drilling provides geotechnical and environmental drilling services for civil, geotechnical, and environmental engineering projects across New England. The company deploys a diverse fleet of truck-mounted and track-mounted drill rigs to perform rotary drilling, cone penetration testing (CPT), soil and groundwater sampling, rock coring, and monitoring well installation for foundation design, environmental site assessments, and remediation support. Services are scoped project-by-project via an online job request form and delivered by approximately 10 full-time drill crews from offices in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.

Product overview

Seaboard Drilling, LLC is a New England-based drilling services company operating approximately 10 full-time drill crews across four state offices (Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island). The company's core offerings are Geotechnical Drilling Services and Environmental Drilling Services, supported by specialized capabilities including Cone Penetration Testing (CPT), rock coring, low clearance drilling, and monitoring well installation. The company formed in 2015 through consolidation of acquired drilling operations including Seaboard Drilling Inc., S.W. Cole Explorations LLC, Allstate Drilling, and Great Works Test Borings, now unified under the Seaboard Drilling, LLC brand. Their equipment fleet includes Diedrich, Mobile, Acker, and Geoprobe drill rigs mounted on both track carriers and trucks, plus a mobile CPT unit.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Geotechnical Drilling Services Geotechnical drilling services that explore subsurface conditions to help clients assess soil, groundwater, and bedrock for foundation design and infrastructure projects. Includes various drilling methods, sampling, and in-situ testing for construction planning.
• Environmental Drilling Services Environmental drilling services supporting subsurface investigations for soil, bedrock, and groundwater sampling. Includes monitoring well installation for ongoing groundwater data collection and site characterization for environmental consultants and remediation projects.
• Cone Penetration Testing (CPT) In-situ geotechnical testing method that pushes a sensor-equipped probe into the ground to collect continuous real-time data on soil properties including tip resistance, sleeve friction, and pore pressure. Can be integrated with traditional test boring drill rigs for hybrid subsurface assessments.
• Monitoring Well Installation Installation of monitoring wells up to 4 inches in diameter, including nested and cluster well configurations, recovery well installation, vapor extraction wells, and sparge point installation for long-term groundwater monitoring and environmental assessments.
• Rock Coring Services Wireline core drilling for continuous coring and sampling of bedrock, available in NQ double tube and HQ double and triple tube configurations.
• Low Clearance Drilling Specialized drilling services using compact drill rigs designed to operate in restricted access areas with limited vertical clearance and challenging terrain.
• Test Pit Excavations Test pit excavation services using excavators to investigate subsurface conditions where drilling is not appropriate.
• In-Situ Testing Services In-situ testing including standard penetration testing (SPT) with calibrated auto-hammers and vane shear testing for soil property assessment.
• Well Abandonment and Decommissioning Professional well abandonment and decommissioning services to properly close wells in accordance with regulatory requirements.
• Environmental Drilling Techniques Environmental drilling methods including hollow stem auger, mud rotary, air rotary, direct push, continuous split spoon sampling, undisturbed sampling, and test pits for subsurface environmental investigations.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduces time and cost versus traditional drilling methods on sites with sands, silts, and clays through real-time CPT data collection
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature5 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Boart Longyear: Boart Longyear is a global drilling services and equipment company spanning mineral exploration, geotechnical, and environmental drilling — a much larger incumbent that competes for subsurface characterization work adjacent to Seaboard's niche.
• Kleinfelder, Inc. Kleinfelder is a national engineering, environmental, and construction services firm with drilling capabilities serving infrastructure, environmental remediation, and energy clients — overlapping with Seaboard's full geotechnical/environmental drilling offering as part of a broader portfolio.
• Stantec Inc. Stantec is a global engineering, architecture, and environmental services firm with North American geotechnical drilling capabilities serving infrastructure, mining, and environmental clients — overlapping with Seaboard's environmental and geotechnical drilling scope as part of a much larger portfolio.
• WSP USA: WSP is a major global engineering professional services firm with U.S. geotechnical and environmental practices that include drilling and subsurface characterization, competing for large infrastructure and environmental programs where Seaboard might otherwise serve as a drilling subcontractor.
• Terracon Consultants, Inc. Terracon is one of the largest U.S. geotechnical engineering firms and operates its own drill rig fleet for site characterization, directly competing with independent regional drillers like Seaboard on large commercial and infrastructure projects.
• Haley & Aldrich: Haley & Aldrich is a national geotechnical and environmental engineering firm that performs in-house drilling and subsurface investigation for infrastructure, environmental, and energy clients — competing with Seaboard for the same geotechnical drilling scope from the engineering-firm side.

Direct peers

• Gregg Drilling & Testing: Gregg Drilling & Testing is a U.S.-based geotechnical and environmental drilling services company widely recognized for its CPT (Cone Penetration Testing) capabilities and subsurface characterization — directly overlapping with Seaboard's CPT-integrated, geotechnical/environmental drilling model.
• Cascade Drilling, L.P. Cascade Drilling is a regional environmental and geotechnical drilling services provider with a comparable mix of rotary drilling, CPT, monitoring well installation, and remediation-support work, serving similar engineering and environmental consultant customers.

Regional players

• GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. GZA is a New England-based geotechnical and environmental consulting firm with drilling capabilities, directly competing with Seaboard for environmental site assessment, monitoring well, and geotechnical drilling work in the same core geography.
• CME Associates, Inc. CME Associates is a Northeast-based engineering, surveying, and environmental services firm offering geotechnical drilling support — competing with Seaboard directly in the New England market with similar engineering-firm customer overlap.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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