Energy transition
The company’s millimeter wave drilling system is approaching a depth of 1 km at its Central Texas site. The recent funding is earmarked for Project Obsidian in Central Oregon, which Quaise calls the world’s first commercial superhot geothermal power plant.
This guest editorial addresses the need for high-temperature directional drilling technologies as the number of rigs used to develop next-generation geothermal wells is set to rise in the coming years.
This paper explores the development of direct-lithium-extraction technologies designed to recover lithium from unconventional feedstocks.
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The latest signs that momentum is building in the geothermal space include military bases. -
The updated joint development agreement allows the companies to carve out new markets while they complete pilot testing at a demonstration plant in the Netherlands.
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Texas has become an early hot spot for geothermal energy exploration as scores of former oil industry workers and executives are taking their knowledge to a new energy source.
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The US supermajor aims to speed the commercialization of a new liquid solvent that strips carbon dioxide from industrial flue gas.
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The challenges that geothermal energy faces to become a leading player in the net-zero world are well within the areas of expertise of the SPE community, ranging from rapid technology implementation and learning-by-doing to assure competitiveness to establishing suitable funding mechanisms to secure access to capital.
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Pink hydrogen, produced through water electrolysis powered by nuclear energy, recently drew attention which underscored the complexity of decision-making in advancing such projects.
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Failure to electrify facilities in the UK North Sea could soon result in a denial of petroleum licenses and the forced closure of some offshore assets.
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The partnership seeks to shift the economics of carbon capture across high-emitting industrial sectors.
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The developer of the recently emerged anchorbit technology is preparing to drill its first geothermal well next year in Germany.
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ExxonMobil and Aramco CEOs talk molecules, electrons, and the need to "abandon the fantasy of phasing out oil and gas" at the "Super Bowl of Energy" in Houston.
