The ICDP comprises the following expertise and respective duties or services:
- Drilling Engineering
Support for drilling contracting, technical design of drilling projects and drill-site operations, drilling engineering developments, on-site drilling and financial supervision of individual projects, drilling tool supervision of ICDP Equipment Pool etc.
- Training
Organisation of on-site technical and scientific instruments of the ICDP Equipment Pool, organization and execution of training courses.
- Downhole Logging
Advice, organisation and exectuion of downhole-logging campaigns, logging data control, development, purchase and maintenance of logging tools, organization of "Downhole" equipment pool of ICDP. Maintenance and repairs of OSG downhole instruments, winches, and related tools, logging data acquisition and storage.
- Downhole Monitoring
This webpage summarizes the current state of the art in Permanent Down-hole Monitoring (PDM) both in the service industry as well as the academia and provides an outlook and recommendation for future development and research.
- Data Management
Set-up and operations support of the Drilling Information System (DIS) and data management for ICDP, website organization and content management. - User Manuals for content editors (full Contenido Editors Guide and special guide for Editors of ICDP Project Web Pages)
- Support in ICDP Program Management and Liaison to IODP
Secretariat for the EC and AOG, Proposal handling, JRV negotiations and other contractual issues, financial project management and budgeting, GFZ in-house liaison to administration.
- Instrumentation
Compilation of technical instruments used and provided by the Operational Support Group ICDP.
