DMT Group

The Westphalian University (WH) of Gelsenkirchen/Germany has appointed Daniela Gutberlet professor for the field of Environmental Technology and Logistics in the Mechanical Engineering, Environmental and Building Technology Department. Gutberlet, who previously worked in the Mining Engineering business segment of the DMT Group, Essen/Germany, started at the beginning of the summer semester 2021. (WH Gelsenkirchen/Si.)

The Management Board of the DMT Group in Essen/Germany expanded on 1st January 2018. Prof. Eiko Räkers (CEO) and Ulrich Pröpper are joined on the Management Board by Maik Tiedemann and Jens-Peter Lux. Tiedemann was until recently a division manager for MAN Diesel & Turbo. On 1st July 2018, he will become Chairperson of the Management Board and will assume responsibility for the Industrial Engineering area of the business. Lux, having held various managerial roles at DMT over the past 15 years, will be the managing director responsible for the fields of Geoengineering & Exploration and Mining Consulting & Engineering. Alongside his responsibility for Facility & Product Safety, Ulrich Pröpper will work jointly with Lux on tasks in the seismic segment and will also head up the Human Resources division. Prof. Räkers is scheduled to retire from his role as Chair of the Management Board on 1st July 2018.

Das Essener Explorations- und Engineeringunternehmen DMT GmbH & Co. KG hat einen Auftrag des kanadischen Öl- und Gasproduzenten Vermilion Energy Inc. zur Durchführung einer seismischen Erkundung in den Niederlanden erhalten. Die Feldarbeiten haben nun begonnen.

Der Auftrag über die 3D-Sprengseismik zur Erkundung des Untergrunds besteht aus zwei Teilen. Von August bis November 2017 führte DMT in den Gebieten Akkrum und Südfriesland seismische Messungen durch. Zwischen August und Dezember 2018 folgen voraussichtlich die Arbeiten in Süd- und Südwestfriesland. Die ersten beiden Messflächen sind zusammen etwa 315 km² groß. Es werden insgesamt ca. 10.000 Schusspunkte gesetzt. Das Projekt stellt die erste große Seismikkampagne nach über zehn Jahren in den Niederlanden dar.

„Wir bewegen uns hier in einem sehr sensiblen Naturökosystem, daher arbeiten wir sehr eng mit Naturschützern und den Permitleuten zusammen“, erklärt DMT-Projektleiter Rüdiger Misiek. „Eine weitere Herausforderung ist das extrem wechselnde Gelände, Sumpf und Moorgebiete, mit den typischen Gräben, die überbrückt werden müssen, und den malerischen holländischen Städten, wie z. B. Drachten, eine Stadt nahezu ohne Verkehrszeichen (Shared Space) mit ihren engen Gassen und dichten Bebauungen.“

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The technology service provider DMT GmbH & Co. KG, Essen/Germany, has been awarded a contract for a high-resolution 3D vibro-seismic survey to determine the geological structure of the subsoil in the Upper Rhine Plain. The seismic project will deploy approximately 7,000 wireless geophones and cover a total of around 58 km² in the Landau region (Rhineland-Palatinate). DMT will use vibro trucks of different sizes, depending on the nature of the terrain and how built-up particular areas are. The project is for Winters-hall, the largest German producer of crude oil and natural gas, and is due to last from December 2016 to March 2017.

Special about this survey is that due to the range of vehicles used, DMT is able to adapt extremely well to the environment. This means that smaller vehicles are used in residential areas. Furthermore DMT uses wireless geophones as measuring sensors. By eliminating the need for cables, there is no trouble crossing railway tracks and roads. Such wireless technology also facilitates large measuring campaigns in particularly short time periods, therefore conserving the natural environment.

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For 278 years DMT GmbH & Co. KG in Essen and its predecessor organizations have been providing services for the mining industry, for 25 years operating under the brand name DMT. DMT was founded in 1990 to tap into new markets outside of the German coal industry. Today DMT operates as a provider of engineering and technical consulting services for the oil and gas market, mining, infrastructure and the process and mechanical engineering market. Due to the new heavy international focus of the brand, the DMT Group generated a higher turnover abroad in 2014 than from domestic sales.

DMT’s roots lie in the early hard coal industry surrounding the Rhine and Ruhr rivers and the founding of the organization Bergamtskasse Graftschaft Mark in 1737. At first solely responsible for the finances of the supervisory mining authorities, a merger in 1864 formed the Westfälische Berggewerkschaftskasse (WBK) and greatly expanded the company’s focus to include miners’ training, research, testing, and consulting and subsequently developing it into one of Germany’s leading research and testing facilities as safety in mines became more stringent.
As a result of the German mining crisis in the 1960s and the foreseeable decline of the hard coal industry in the decades thereafter, the WBK joined forces with Bergbauforschung Essen and Versuchsgrubengesellschaft in Dortmund in 1990 under the new name DMT. Their mission was to develop and exploit new markets and regions in order to become independent from the German coal industry, and what better initial credential than the cutting-edge technology which had already made German coal mining the safest worldwide? “DMT has fulfilled its mission” explains DMT CEO Prof. Dr. Eiko Räkers. “However, DMT still is and will remain a reliable partner for the German coal industry up to the closure of the last German mines in 2018 and beyond, assisting in all issues related to hard coal mining”. Räkers adds: “Upcoming challenges in Germany include the control of rising mine water, monitoring the after-effects of mining and the rehabilitation and redevelopment of abandoned mining sites”.

With a total of 14 engineering and consulting firms based at 30 offices worldwide DMT has earned the title of global group. Its service portfolio covers exploration, engineering, consulting and geotechnics as well as testing and monitoring. The development and manufacture of diverse industrial measuring systems and test products is a further string to DMT’s bow.

Since 2007 DMT has been a member of TÜV NORD GROUP with over 10,000 employees and offices in 70 countries. DMT forms one division within TÜV NORD GROUP and is a brand in its own right for the natural resources and infrastructure sectors. DMT has established itself as an international engineering service provider and continues to grow and prosper at international level, with the brand “DMT” binding its manifold activities. (DMT GmbH/Si)