- CEO
- Timothy Bremner
- Full Time Employees
- 2,166
- Sector
- Basic Materials
- Industry
- Industrial Materials
- Address
- 701 Rue des Fournels Lunel OC France 13016
- IPO Date
- Nov 11, 2009
- Business
- Foraco International SA (TSX: FAR), headquartered in Marseille, France and founded in 1961, ranks as the third-largest global mineral drilling contractor, delivering comprehensive drilling services for mining exploration, development, production, and water projects across 17 countries on five continents, including North America, South America, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company specializes in mineral drilling techniques such as deep directional coring with multiple branches to over 3,000 meters, large-diameter coring up to nine inches, heli-portable drilling, underground coring, reverse circulation, air core, rotary drilling, longhole stoping, grade control, and in-situ leaching for resources like lithium and potash; for water projects, it provides specialist well drilling for drinking, irrigation, and industrial water using proprietary methods including flooded reverse circulation, hydraulic fracturing for yield stimulation, and turn-key contracts with pump installation and distribution systems, having completed over 40,000 wells from 20 to 2,000 meters deep. Foraco maintains the third-largest global fleet of drilling rigs, employs best-in-class safety standards, and leverages a versatile international workforce experienced in harsh environments like deserts, arctic terrain, rainforests, high altitudes, and remote sites. In recent developments, the company secured new contract awards and renewals of long-term agreements with Tier 1 customers in Canada and Chile totaling an estimated US$140 million, continued mobilizing rigs in South America including doubled revenue in Brazil from additional contracts, sold its 50% stake in Kazakh subsidiary Eastern Drilling Company LLP in May 2025 generating a US$289 thousand gain, and invested US$14.5 million in capital expenditures year-to-date through Q3 2025 primarily for new rigs and equipment to support expansions.