Maasdijk geothermal project can’t start soon enough
The first geothermal wells in the Netherlands were drilled in the area called “Westland” where a large cluster of greenhouses is located. About twenty years ago, it was the desire…
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What went wrong in Leeuwarden?
Last year, a geothermal well was drilled near the city of Leeuwarden in the north of the Netherlands. The target of the borehole was the Rotliegend of the Friesland Platform,…
Should the Eden geothermal project have been drilled later?
As was announced by the Eden Geothermal project in the southwest of England yesterday, injection tests into fractured basement rocks have resulted in a seismic event of 1.7 magnitude at…
Hamburg is hot
With an estimated power output of 10 MW – which could supply 5,000 houses with heat – the city of Hamburg in northern Germany hopes to integrate geothermal energy with…
Deep boreholes provide more heat
“The secret is to drill deep, down to 1,500 meters,” points out Thor Erik Musæus, founder and CEO of the two-year-old company Geothermal Energy Nordic (GTML). “The reason is that…
A game-changing geothermal project
Plans to drill up to seventeen wells – each to a depth of around 2,500 m. That is the scale of the geothermal development that may be realised in the city…
Denmark to see large geothermal project developed
As announced yesterday, Innargi – a company founded by Danish conglomerate A.P. Møller Holding in 2017 – will develop a large geothermal energy project in the Danish city of Aarhus…
Deep geothermal energy to power a paper mill
In a press release issued by EBN early December, the preferred site for drilling an ultra-deep geothermal well in the Netherlands was announced. This follows on from two research projects…
It’s time for Denmark to step up geothermal energy production
Denmark is a country where some key ingredients for the successful implementation of a geothermal project are present: a complex of district heating systems enabling the effective and local distribution…
Seismic survey identifies two potential reservoirs for geothermal energy in Belgium
Subsurface consultancy Hita also suggests that 3D models can help reduce the risk for induced seismicity.
Seismic geothermal survey to kick off in Germany
In the Münsterland Basin in Germany, a new seismic campaign will start in a few days’ time in order to further investigate the geothermal potential of strata buried to a…
A new UK drilling record
With early signs of high temperatures and good permeabilities at the target depth, the first well drilled at Biomes in Cornwall by the Eden Geothermal project in southwest England provides…