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…
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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…
Geothermal energy from fractured “basement”
In the North Sea oil and gas sector, production from fractured basement is in the spotlight these days, given the Lancaster field development in the UK and the recently announced…
Pushing the boundaries of geothermal sweet spots
Last week, Shell in partnership with company D4 announced the award of a licence for geothermal exploration in the west of the Netherlands – named “Rijnland”. It occupies a large…
Shell drills for geothermal energy in the Netherlands
Drilling for geothermal energy is not new in the Netherlands, but most projects so far were completed to produce energy for greenhouse heating. What is new in the case of…