R&D/innovation
GeoMap Europe is the latest in a series of interactive global geothermal maps that combine large subsurface and surface data sets to highlight where geothermal resources and development opportunities are strongest for power, heat, cooling, and storage.
The North Sea Transition Authority’s survey highlights shifting innovation and deployment priorities across 46 operators, offering a basinwide snapshot of technologies driving efficiency gains, strengthening asset integrity, and accelerating progress toward net-zero performance in the UK North Sea.
The Texas-based geothermal company said it set a new temperature record and achieved strong drilling performance in its first enhanced geothermal pilot.
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The funding is for 33 research and development projects which will tackle the technical challenges of capturing CO2. -
Rate transient analysis has been challenged in every sense of the word when it comes to tight reservoirs. An ongoing joint industry project aims to turn that around.
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A deeper understanding of the roles of individuals in the innovation process is more important than ever as the organizations that make up the industry are being fundamentally transformed. Who are the “explorers” within the sector that are hardwired to deliver tomorrow’s bolder technologies? And who are the “exploiters” that prefer to stick with less‑ambitious innovat…
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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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Chevron and Occidental plan to launch separate projects to help secure the commercial future of geothermal development in the US.
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A breakthrough fusion demonstration at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory produced more energy than it used—a historic first.
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Makers of continuous sucker rods are out to convince customers that it really is possible to make a better sucker rod that could save them some money.
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Petroleum engineers have important roles to play in the future energy for the world. Among these are using our traditional concept of producing oil and natural gas as we are doing now and will need to continue to do for decades to come; using our competencies to address the challenges of climate change; and helping to develop additional forms of energy that do not add…
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Houston-based startup Cemvita Factory uses its hydrogen-producing microbes downhole to considerably lower the cost of hydrogen production.
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The ATCE Startup Village is a partnership between SPE and the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship at Rice University. Find out which firms took this year's top honors during the annual competition.
