Geothermal energy
Winners of Alberta's Drilling Technology Challenge cover a range of technologies from robotics to enhance drilling rig safety to AI-enabled energy management, downhole sensing, well navigation, hybrid power systems, and geothermal energy.
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.
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SponsoredAltitude Energy Partners optimized drilling efficiency by minimizing dysfunctions and protecting downhole components. Their directional drilling team ensured consistent curves and laterals through precise BHA design, modeling, and trajectory control—reducing nonproductive time and drilling costs, and achieving a 100% improvement in efficiency by pad completion. -
Geothermal systems, which rely on extracting heat from deep within the Earth, face many of the same technical challenges that oil and gas operators have tackled for decades. Geothermal development can be advanced efficiently and economically by applying proven oil and gas technologies.
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The companies have announced they will work together to integrate geothermal well engineering and project delivery globally.
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Closed-loop geothermal systems have entered the new-energy arena to generate electricity using the underground as a heat exchanger.
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The companies said they plan to work together on developing geopressured geothermal systems for low-carbon energy storage and geothermal power generation.
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The agreement aims to accelerate new commercial technologies that address challenges with geothermal development.
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GEODE is a consortium led by Project InnerSpace and the Society of Petroleum Engineers and funded by the US Department of Energy’s Geothermal Technologies Office.
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Geothermal energy in the US has historically been concentrated in the West due to favorable geology, but emerging technologies have expanded the possibilities.
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New IEA Report: Next-Generation Geothermal Can Go Global, But Oil and Gas Industry Must Show the WayThe upstream sector could help unlock geothermal energy’s potential but up to $1 trillion in project spending would be necessary over the next decade, the report says.
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What we’ve learned about faster drilling in oil and gas applied just as well to geothermal development—until we reached The Geysers.
