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Australian Project to Tap Geothermal Heat for Planned Aquatic Centre

Drilling of a reinjection well has started for a geothermal project to heat an aquatic center in the Gippsland region of Southeastern Australia.

DNO Makes Minor Oil and Gas Discovery off Norway

Oil and gas company DNO is in the process of concluding the drilling of a wildcat well near the Heidrun field in the Norwegian Sea after finding a minor oil and…

Power Electronics for Geothermal Drilling – An ARPA-e Funded Research Project

With funding under the ARPA-E awards, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is conducting research on Revolutionary, High-Drilling Rate, High-T Geothe…

Drilling Started Last Week on the Geothermal Heating Project in French

Drilling started last week on the geothermal heating project in Champs-sur-Marne, in the greater Paris area. As reported locally, drilling started in Champs-sur…

AE Seeking to Overcome Technical Limitations to Deep Geothermal Drilling

A U.S. DOE funded project by AltaRock Energy is seeking to overcome technical limitations to deep geothermal drilling, replacing mechanical methods with a milli…

Janssen Pharmaceutica First Business to Use Heat from Geothermal Drilling

Pharmaceutical company Janssen has inaugurated the first deep geothermal drilling site in Belgium that’s on the premises of a business. It will use water from …

No Oil Discovery After Staatsolie’s Six-Well Campaign Off Suriname

Staatsolie said earlier this week that it had drilled six exploration wells as part of its nearshore drilling campaign. While no commercial oil discovery was ma…

Cornwall’s UDDGP Geothermal Project Seeking Contractor for Well Testing

Contractor sought for testing of two geothermal wells drilled for the United Downs Deep Geothermal Project in Cornwall, UK.

Drilling has Started for a Geothermal Project in Belgium

Drilling on the first well for a geothermal project to produce heat for a pharmaceutical plant by Janssen Pharmaceutica ( Johnson & Johnson) has started.

German City Exploring Reactivating Geothermal Wells Drilled in the 1970s

The municipality of Bad Urach in Southern Germany is looking at repurposing two wells drilled for a hot dry rock geothermal project in the 1970s and utilise the…

U.S. DOE Awards $7m in Funding for Work on Reducing Geothermal Drilling Cost

The U.S. Department of Energy has announced the recipients of $7 million funding to help decrease the cost of geothermal drilling operations and field developme…

As Climate Warnings Grow Dire, Energy Companies Face A 'New Frontier Of Threats'

But in the coming months, the Interior Department will sell leases to companies that intend to drill for oil and gas in the refuge's coastal plain.

Oil&Gas Drilling

Saudis to Push for Extension of Oil-Production Cuts at OPEC Meeting

Saudi Arabia will push for an extension of oil production cuts through mid-2020 at a producers’ summit this week in an effort to prop up Saudi Aramco’s initia…

Oil&Gas Drilling

Russia’s Oil Companies Propose Postponing Extension of OPEC+ Deal Until March

At a meeting at the Ministry of Energy on Thursday, representatives of the Russian oil industry proposed that the current quotas for reducing production within …

Cornish Lithium has Started Drilling in Efforts to Source Lithium

Cornishl Lithium has commenced drilling of two research wells in Cornwall UK to explore lithium contained within naturally-occurring underground geothermal brin…