Planning Permission for Drilling at Port y Pystyll

View from Cestyll gardens towards where the drilling will take place off
Porth y Pystyll

BBC News Report

The firm behind an £8bn power station on Anglesey has been given permission to drill boreholes in the seabed as it prepares its building plans.

Wylfa Newydd power plant will employ more than 1,000 people once it begins working in the first half of the 2020s.

Horizon Nuclear Power will look at the seabed structure at Porth Y Pistyll after getting a marine licence.

It will use the information gathered for planning and design aspect of potential marine works at the site.

Drilling Sites Continue

Drilling continues at selected sites around Wylfa.

More Drilling Positions

Drilling now taking place on east side of the present power station. In the area divided of from Wylfa Head by the new fencing.
The viewing point can be seen at the top of the hill to the left. But this is currently closed off to public use.

Drilling Moves On

Drilling rigs continue to move across the landscape.

Rig Spotting

Almost as many rig variations as plants. A forest of spires across the landscape.
Truck mounted, trailers and tracked shown here.

All in a Row

Drill rigs all in a row between Tregele and Cemlyn
Site investigations for proposed new Wylfa nuclear power station
Anglesey.

Levelling-up Drill Sites

Rubble spreads create a level site on which to locate the drill rigs where they are located on slopes.

Drilling Sites

The drilling rigs continue their work across the survey area.

New Work Cages Set Up

As the first drill sites are completed rigs move on to new sites, and the next locations are also set up.

New drill site marked out and being prepared for the drill to me moved to it
at Porth y Pistyll, Wylfa.

On the Horizon

New drill sites being prepared.

Drilling Rigs are Thirsty

Takes a lot of lubrication to drill these holes. Constant ferrying of water to lubricate the drilling sites required.

British Summer Time Begins

British Summer Time began this morning. A bright and warm morning and at least nine drilling sites in operation. Five in this one cluster at the former house Tan-yr-allt.

Red, Yellow, White

Drilling rigs in operation. All colours.

Red Rigg

You have seen the yellow drilling rigs. Now the red one.

Marking Out and Drilling

The locations of drill sites are being marked out with fencing in advance of the drilling rigs.

Structural Soils Surveys

Structural Soils Ltd have worked at Wylfa on the earlier surveys.
Drilling rigs are now deployed and the site is being dotted with white poles and small red and white flags.

Completed First Drill Position

Tidying up the area of the first drill site.
Rig moved to second position.

New Drilling Programme

Mobilisation of drilling rig for geophysical survey. Three shots of the same rig on a wet and windy Sunday morning, following gales over night of about 80mpg.
The roadworks sign was to deploy the storage point for liquid.

More Drilling - and Seismic Surveys

Drilling rig and stuff start arriving for more survey work.