What about aready drilled wells . Can dry oil wells be converted to a closed loop geothermal system. How does frakking affect your ability to seal the closed loop and prevent leakage ?
Every well drilled, being these dry wells or suspended oil wells have the temperature profile which increase as the depth increase, so heat energy is everywhere. Harvesting these energy depends from final goals the energy is needed and location. If economy need heating energy this is easy, but if the economy need electricity energy, then the wells must provide high heat, and have high temperature at least higher than 200 deg C and up. Drilling deeper and at higher temperatures is not easy and it is not cheep, it is very expensive. Company experts claim they can drill and this is credible, the problem is drilling cost and time, and then other challanges. Peoples must consised and some general data about geothermal temperatures and depths. For example they must learn the temperatures the deepest wells ever drilled have on depth and the cost of drilling. So, if we search on google we find that "The cost to drill the Kola Superdeep Borehole was over $100 million, which is about $2,500 per foot.". When we see drilling on USA, The Lone Star Bertha Rogers No. 1 well with maximum depth 31,441 feet, which encountered 475 degrees F (246 deg C) and cost around $7 million to drill, these can not compared with Kola Well where temperature were around 195 deg C (are the data reliable?). I believe today drilling industry is improved somehow, but the challange is big especially drilling hard rocks like granites at high depth and high temperatures.
One of their key claims seems to be that their drilling experience in Alberta provides them with kind of a knowledge matrix of rock types/drilling technique/thermal yield that can easily be transferred to potential drilling sites worldwide. I find that very hard to believe.
I believe it. They've been extracting oil and gas from all kinds of rock in very difficult conditions for decades. Alberta's oil and gas is so hard to extract it forced them to be very innovative. Years ago the Canadian prime minister said they would use their knowledge and experience to find clean energy and that's what they did.
I would say its the experience that Alberta has in drilling toe and heel oil wells. They talk about Sandstone in this video which is a softer rock then were they want to go to . They want to go to Granite rock which is deeper. Sandstone density is less then granite.
Couple this will some renewable energy like solar and a large sand battery and you could make power and municipal heating at the same time.
...does the circle logo explains the heat & super heated steam in its operations?
Very cool future tech love it
Most thermal wells will be drilled in Granite rock as it starts at 1,500 m and goes all the way to 50,000 m deep.
Will you be using the fusion drill?
What about aready drilled wells . Can dry oil wells be converted to a closed loop geothermal system.
How does frakking affect your ability to seal the closed loop and prevent leakage ?
a casing may allow fracked wells to be used
Every well drilled, being these dry wells or suspended oil wells have the temperature profile which increase as the depth increase, so heat energy is everywhere. Harvesting these energy depends from final goals the energy is needed and location. If economy need heating energy this is easy, but if the economy need electricity energy, then the wells must provide high heat, and have high temperature at least higher than 200 deg C and up.
Drilling deeper and at higher temperatures is not easy and it is not cheep, it is very expensive.
Company experts claim they can drill and this is credible, the problem is drilling cost and time, and then other challanges.
Peoples must consised and some general data about geothermal temperatures and depths. For example they must learn the temperatures the deepest wells ever drilled have on depth and the cost of drilling. So, if we search on google we find that "The cost to drill the Kola Superdeep Borehole was over $100 million, which is about $2,500 per foot.".
When we see drilling on USA, The Lone Star Bertha Rogers No. 1 well with maximum depth 31,441 feet, which encountered 475 degrees F (246 deg C) and cost around $7 million to drill, these can not compared with Kola Well where temperature were around 195 deg C (are the data reliable?).
I believe today drilling industry is improved somehow, but the challange is big especially drilling hard rocks like granites at high depth and high temperatures.
One of their key claims seems to be that their drilling experience in Alberta provides them with kind of a knowledge matrix of rock types/drilling technique/thermal yield that can easily be transferred to potential drilling sites worldwide. I find that very hard to believe.
I believe it. They've been extracting oil and gas from all kinds of rock in very difficult conditions for decades. Alberta's oil and gas is so hard to extract it forced them to be very innovative. Years ago the Canadian prime minister said they would use their knowledge and experience to find clean energy and that's what they did.
I would say its the experience that Alberta has in drilling toe and heel oil wells. They talk about Sandstone in this video which is a softer rock then were they want to go to . They want to go to Granite rock which is deeper. Sandstone density is less then granite.
just do it.
alternatives getting more expensive. should be easy to find some customers.
The sooner the better, this technology is needed immediately in Taiwan if it is to resist a long siege from Mainland China
Now, you just have to figure out how to extract the heat from the ocean, where it will do the most good.
Combined with mining Bitcoin (at the very same drilling / electricity generation place) it is the perfect business