The next era of drillingstarts at the bit.
DrillTerra Technologies commercialises a family of patented kinetic-flow drilling technologies - RipTerra™, RockTerra™ and TurboTerra™ - engineered to cut cost per metre, extend bit life and return rig-hours to production across soft, medium and very hard ground.
Built for hard ground worldwide.
Production trial.
Field results from Tier-1 Hunter Valley operations; fleet figures from DrillTerra's cost model at an 8% discount rate.
RipTerra™ - the kinetic-flow tricone
Conventional tricone bits waste energy regrinding cuttings at the face. RipTerra™ is engineered so cuttings leave the hole - not get reground in it.
The cutting structure engages the entire hole face. No dead zones, no uncut cores.
From bench to bit - a continuous flow of new technology
Our R&D team runs a staged pipeline that moves ideas from research into commercial deployment with mining operators.
- Face-profile studies
- Wear materials
- RockTerra™ (very hard ground) - filed worldwide
- Next-diameter RipTerra™ variants
- TurboTerra™ - 2.6× at Bengalla
- RipTerra™ production trials (+15% ROP over 10,560 m)
- RipTerra™ - available now
Engineering-grade advantages for global operators
Patent-protected
RipTerra™ is protected by Australian patent 2014273848, with the next-generation RockTerra™ family filed worldwide under WO 2025/073006 A1.
Field-first engineering
Invented on the drill deck and proven on operating blast-hole rigs - not just in the lab.
Productivity you can measure
Faster penetration, longer bit life and fewer bit changes translate directly into metres, rig-hours and dollars.
Lower carbon per metre
Rig-hours returned to production mean fewer engine-hours per metre drilled - measurable tCO₂e avoided that supports operator decarbonisation targets.
Built for the world's hardest ground.
RipTerra™ was developed and trialled in Australian Tier-1 coal operations and is engineered for hard-rock and coal drilling environments worldwide.
