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Derrick Sub-structures

Drilling derrick bases: braced side boxes, rotary and setback beams, the drill floor, the first section of the mast, the V-door ramp and the stairs, fabricated to the rig designer’s drawings.

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Under the derrick

Two braced boxes carrying the drill floor, with the lower mast section above. The rig designer’s drawings set every size.

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Side boxes

Braced boxes of H-sections and tubular diagonals, drilled for the pins that join them on site.

How is it possible at Allmarc?
Kotec newRun10DX CNC beam drilling line in the Allmarc works

Used here for: Side boxes

Heavy profiles that need precise holes, where plasma cannot do the job: the lower structure and panel borders of a ground flare, and every bolted PEB and multi-storey frame.

  • H-beams up to 1,000 x 500 mm
  • Drills 3 faces in one pass
  • Channels, angles and box sections
All our machinery
HSG CNC tube laser in the Allmarc works

Used here for: Side boxes

  • 4 kW
  • Tubes and sections up to 250 dia
  • Automatic loading
All our machinery

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Rotary and setback beams

Deep built-up beams carrying the rotary table and the pipe set back on the floor.

How is it possible at Allmarc?

Used here for: Rotary and setback beams

  • Plates matched and tack-welded
  • Automatic feed and stitch welding
  • H and I sections built from plate
All our machinery

Used here for: Rotary and setback beams

  • Full-penetration welds on built-up sections
All our machinery

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Drill floor

A plated floor with handrails round the edge.

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Lower mast section

Legs, girts and diagonals, with the V-door opening on one face.

How is it possible at Allmarc?
CNC profile laser in the Allmarc works

Used here for: Lower mast section

  • Tube, beam and structural profile cutting
All our machinery

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Ramp, catwalk and stairs

Pipe-handling ramp and catwalk, and stairs from grade.

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A kit of parts

Boxes, beams, floor and mast section: every member numbered, match-marked and packed in erection sequence.

Why Allmarc

Experience you can trust.

We fabricate to your drawings and prove the fit in our own bay before anything ships. Open any line for the detail.

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Structural steel at scale
  • 4 plants at Kanbha; about 6,000 T a month from November 2026.
  • Plate, sections and built-up members in house.
Trial-assembled
  • Fit-up proven in the works.
  • Match-marked for bolt-up on site.
Finished before dispatch
  • Blast, prime and paint in house; galvanised finishes on request.
  • Access steel fitted in the works.
Packed for the journey
  • Export packing we designed ourselves.
  • Shipped as numbered kits.
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We fabricate to your design, from plate to a packed container. An engineer will tell you honestly how we would build it.

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