Star Drilling spent three years geotechnical drilling for the Melbourne Airport Rail Link. A lot of drilling occurred on or under the E.J. Whitten Rail Bridge.
Addtional to it being Christmas, Star Drilling celebrated it's 10th year of operation with staff and their families with a day at the races.
The project required drilling into waste emplacement areas to a depths ranging from 70 m to 117 m at the Duralie Coal Mine Site NSW. The previous drilling contractor was unable to reach required depths