Geothermal energy
The emergency permitting rules aim to accelerate geothermal energy development. Ormat Technologies' three Nevada projects will be the first to benefit from the streamlined process, with environmental reviews cut from years to weeks.
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Altitude 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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Fracturing hot rock to create a geological water-heating system is like fracturing an oil well, but for a different purpose, so is proppant really necessary? -
When confronted by extremely hot wells drilled into hard rock, engineers start looking for new tools and then ask, is there a cheaper option?
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Geothermal energy is bidding to emerge from its dark horse status in Texas and become a possible solution of choice for some renewable applications.
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New funding aims to launch up to seven pilots to help expand the deployment of enhanced geothermal systems.
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One of the problems with geothermal is that the rock that is hot enough to create the steam needed to run a power plant is also capable of destroying drilling hardware.
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The two companies said they will work together to try to find the best places to develop geothermal energy and advance the necessary technologies to commercial scale.
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Chevron and Occidental plan to launch separate projects to help secure the commercial future of geothermal development in the US.
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The oilfield service giant has identified the nation's potential geothermal sweet spots after analyzing data from more than 7,000 wells.
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Geothermal energy has the potential to play a significant role in Japan's energy transition.
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The Biden administration seeks to cut the cost of enhanced geothermal systems by 90% by 2035.
