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FORACO Australia

What we do

Markets we serve

FORACO Australia is a full service provider of drilling and grouting services to the Mineral, Water, Energy and Geotechnical sectors.  We believe in leveraging the skills of our people, equipment, systems and processes across multiple sectors to provide our clients with a single interface for all their drilling needs.

With today’s every increasing compliance and onboarding requirements, our crews are highly trained, versatile and multi skilled at delivering a wide range of quality drilling and grouting services.

We have intentionally built our systems to be scalable and transferable across multiple sectors to enhance safety, consistency, quality and efficiency. 

RC exploration

  • Deep hole specialists > 600m x 5 ½” RC
  • High pressure air (2500cfm x 1000 psi)

Diamond coring – BQ to PQ

  • Large diameter coring – 8” and 4”conventional and 6” wireline
  • Deep hole directional drilling – Australia’s 2nd deepest diamond drill hole to 3,011.5m
  • Geotechnical Investigations – SPT and Push Tube sampling

Hydro Drilling Services

  • Production and monitoring bores
  • Mud rotary / Down Hole Hammer / Large Diameter Flooded Reverse
  • 6” to 24” diameter
  • 1,000m depth capacity
  • 20” and 10” Casing While Drilling (CWD) systems
  • Dedicated grouting units
  • VWP installation and grouting with data recording and real time 3G/4G telemetry
  • Down hole data acquisition units

Coal exploration

  • Mud rotary
  • Air rotary
  • Coring – Wireline NQ to PQ, 8” & 4” conventional coring and 6” wireline coring
  • Service holes
  • Grouting units
  • Water wells

Coal Seam Gas Exploration

  • Exploration wells to 1,500m
  • Full BOP well control
  • Production Wells
  • Mine Gas Drainage

Geotechnical Drilling and Testing

  • SPT Testing
  • Packer Testing
  • Shear Vane Testing
  • Density Measurements

Mineral

RC exploration

  • Deep hole specialists > 600m x 5 ½” RC
  • High pressure air (2500cfm x 1000 psi)

Diamond coring – BQ to PQ

  • Large diameter coring – 8” and 4”conventional and 6” wireline
  • Deep hole directional drilling – Australia’s 2nd deepest diamond drill hole to 3,011.5m
  • Geotechnical Investigations – SPT and Push Tube sampling

Water

Hydro Drilling Services

  • Production and monitoring bores
  • Mud rotary / Down Hole Hammer / Large Diameter Flooded Reverse
  • 6” to 24” diameter
  • 1,000m depth capacity
  • 20” and 10” Casing While Drilling (CWD) systems
  • Dedicated grouting units
  • VWP installation and grouting with data recording and real time 3G/4G telemetry
  • Down hole data acquisition units

Energy

Coal exploration

  • Mud rotary
  • Air rotary
  • Coring – Wireline NQ to PQ, 8” & 4” conventional coring and 6” wireline coring
  • Service holes
  • Grouting units
  • Water wells

Coal Seam Gas Exploration

  • Exploration wells to 1,500m
  • Full BOP well control
  • Production Wells
  • Mine Gas Drainage

Geotechnical

Geotechnical Drilling and Testing

  • SPT Testing
  • Packer Testing
  • Shear Vane Testing
  • Density Measurements

Core Services

Diamond Coring

FORACO Australia has drilled to depths in excess of 3,000m and has extensive experience with directionally controlled drill holes.
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Large Diameter Coring​

FORACO Australia has drilled over 13,000m of 8” and 6” core during the past decade. Successfully drilling for Iron Ore, Coal, Uranium & Copper.
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Hydro Drilling​

FORACO Australia specialises in small footprint, Large Diameter Flooded Reverse (LDFR) hydro drilling.
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Reverse Circulation

FORACO Australia operates a fleet of modern, heavy duty RC rigs with on board, high pressure air packages.
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Geotechnical​

Providing high quality geotechnical drilling samples, including density, SPT, Shear Vane and Packer Testing.
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Water Engineering Services

The FORACO Fluid Potential team specialize in the design, installation, monitoring and telemetry of local and regional groundwater systems.
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Grouting

FORACO Australia and Fluid Potential has developed highly specialised and efficient grouting units for well completion and abandonment.
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FORACO is a leading global provider of drilling services to the mining, exploration, energy, hydrogeological and geotechnical industries.

Nathan Elford | Vice President, FORACO Australia