Webinar: Updates on Drilling for Geothermal

Recording and presentations available!

ETIP Geothermal Webinar: “Updates on Drilling for Geothermal” took take place on the 19th of April 2024, with participants presenting their insights within the two thematic areas:

1. Drilling Design
2. Drilling Technologies

Presentations:

Welcome – Philippe Dumas, EGEC Secretary-General

Session 1: Drilling Design & Technologies

• Naveen Velmurugan, Mines Paris, “ORCHYD: Improved Drilling Method Using HPWJ-Enhanced Mud Hammer”
  
• Samuli Salmela, Geomachine Oy, “Drilling fast and cost efficiently to 2km deep”
• Matus Gajdos, GA Drilling, “ANCHORBIT and PLASMABIT drilling technologies”
• Julian Jones, Strada Drilling Systems, “The Strada Dual Circulation, Percussion Hammer Drilling System”
• Anson Bartlett, Tomax Drilling Technology UK Ltd, “Highly Efficient Drilling Regulator”
• Geertjan  Van Og, Well Engineering Partners (WEP) BV, “Overview of well designs used in the Netherlands”
• Namrata Bist, Pandit Deendayal Energy University, “Drilling in Basalts”

Session 2: Drilling Design & Technologies

• Pawel Slupski, University of Padua, “Deep U-tube heat exchanger breakthrough: combining laser and cryogenic gas for geothermal energy exploitation – perspective of laser-rock interactions”
• Kim Maver, Green Therma, “Completing geothermal wells in salt”
• Slawomir Szklarz, TNO, “Developing a marginal reservoir for urban heating in Zwolle: Optimized well and completion design”
• Anthony Pink, Blackreiver Consulting, “Latest Drilling Technology for Super Hot Rock”
• Henning Knauer, Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Infrastructures and Geothermal Energy, “Optimisation of Geothermal Drilling with Machine Learning”
• Miklos Antics, GPC, “Development of geothermal energy in areas with low transmissivity and/or in areas with a high density of operations. Well architectures to maximise heat extraction.”

 

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