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Neels_Audie PRO
Neels Audie
Owner and designer of Audie steel and engineering
neelsaudie@gmail.com
Experience
Owner at Audie steel and engineering
January 1999 - Present (17 years 2 months)
I have a very responsible job - Everything that goes wrong - I am responsible
Owner and designer at Audie steel and engineering cc
January 1998 - Present (18 years 2 months)
I started the company in 1998 and designed and manufactured a string of drilling rigs for different
applications. I design in Solidworks 2013 and have a fully equipped workshop with a staff complement
of 24 - including designers and artisans. I also have CNC machines and operators. As a relatively small
company we are able to take on challenges like the project in South Sudan where we were contracted to the
Department of state of America to supply a drilling rig in 5 weeks to solve a humanitarian crises in refugee
camps in the north of South Sudan. We performed flawless and have the references to prove it.
Languages
Afrikaans (Native or bilingual proficiency)
English (Native or bilingual proficiency)
Skills & Expertise
Accounting
Inventory Management
Forecasting
Logistics
Change Management
Sales
AutoCAD
Drilling
Procurement
Solidworks
Contract Management
Project Planning
Process Scheduler
Purchasing
Materials
Team Leadership
Supervisory Skills
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Business Planning
Analysis
Contract Negotiation
Teamwork
Automotive
Supply Chain Management
Training
Management
MS Project
Customer Satisfaction
Supply Chain
Pricing
SAP
Administration
Projects
SALT - South African large telescope
May 2011 to Present
Members:Neels Audie
I designed a drilling rig to fit on a TLB and another one on a Excavator to solve the problem of drilling in
places not accessible otherwise
Audie spider drill rig
March 2009 to Present
Members:Neels Audie
This drill rig I designed to drill water wells up to 200 meters deep and 6 inches diameter But it needed to be
towed by a land cruiser and must be able to fit in very small spaces. That presented a lot of challenges but I
am proud to say it is a success
The LC150
April 2006 to Present
Members:Neels Audie
This rig needed to be light but have all the bells and whistles of a big rig- The new and improved version I
delivered to my customer in Zimbabwe on the 31 of December 2012 Check it out on my web site
SAR200
May 2011 to Present
Members:Neels Audie
This is the best rig for water well drilling in Africa. Best doesn't mean it can drill the deepest or the biggest
hole size - It means it is simple effective and can do 98 percent of all water well drilling in Africa. It is made
so that it can be repaired in Africa by the skill levels available in Africa. And it is cost effective.
SAR300
July 2012 to Present
Members:Neels Audie
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I designed and build this rig for the humanitarian project in South Sudan and it had to fit in a Illusion 76 - It
has the capability to drill up-to 300 meters deep and has two triplex piston pumps on- board for mud rotary
drilling - I designed and build and delivered this rig in 5 weeks.
SAR210
September 2010 to Present
Members:Neels Audie
This rig was designed to drill large diameter holes for the use in Power line construction It can drill upto 2.4
meters deep and upto 17 inch in diameter - It is a compact unit with on board compressor
TT300
May 2006 to Present
Members:Neels Audie
Here my aim was to make a trailer mounted drill that could do DTH and mud rotary- for the use in
Mozambique and Angola It has all the bells and whistles that the SAR300 truck mounted rig has now only -
it is trailer mounted.
SAR100
April 2014 to Present
Members:Neels Audie
I designed and build the new SAR100 on a 4 ton Toyota truck - The challenge was to build it in the weight
limit and still give the drilling rig the capacity to drill 150 meters deep and 8 inch diameter DTH Also the rig
had to hold its own drilling rods for atleast 120 meters. after the first SAR100 I looked around and found that
the Isuzu NQR 500 has the same load capacity but enable us to tow an additional 2000 Kg trailer. Now we
have a drilling rig that can tow our mudpump trailer and fit under a carport Have a look at our website for
more info
The African
January 2015 to Present
Members:Neels Audie
Building the African was the culmination of my experience build drilling rigs I wanted it to be simple and
give me the option to reuse parts and processes on different models So I designed a tower that can be scaled -
As I found a 1 to 1 relation in the tower to have many advantage I designed the African Tower on a 1:1 - Just
like the Sider and TT300 Towers I wanted to have tower that can be dumped onto the ground. I also did not
want the hassle with cables and pulleys. I needed a simple but effective way to load the drilling rods into the
tower and came up with two. There was other difficulties I had to overcome. As a dump mast will not make
it easy to route your drill pipes without taking into consideration. We are now launching The African range
of 10 drilling rigs on the 20th of Jan 2015
Audie Spider V2
March 2015 to Present
Members:Neels Audie, Jan Hendrik Kleynhans, Charno Le Roux, Stefan Rothman
We designed and manufactured the Audie Spider V2 complete with detail drawings etc
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Patents
AUTOMATIC DRILL
South Africa Patent 2013/01867 Issued March 12, 2012
Inventors: Neels Audie
This is a drilling system to automate drill rod handeling for water well drilling rigs We are in the process to
build one now I call it the Audie speed star
