Overview

• Quaise hosted a live field demonstration at a Marble Falls quarry, where a millimeter‑wave system drilled a roughly 118‑meter bore in granite before invited observers who viewed real‑time data and downhole video.
• The team reported peak penetration rates up to five meters per hour through hard granite, far above conventional mechanical drilling averages cited by the company.
• The demonstration bore measured four inches in diameter, compared with Quaise’s stated production goal of 8.5 inches.
• Executives said they plan to attempt a one‑kilometer hole within the next few months, and the company scheduled six additional public demos at the site.
• The event followed a year of progressively harder tests, including four‑ and ten‑foot lab cores and a 40‑foot run on a Nabors oil rig near Houston.