Geothermal Exploration Consulting Services
Cost-effectively minimizing geothermal resource risks
Revealing geothermal resource potential, derisking development, and estimating recoverable thermal power.
Geothermal well construction consulting services
Improve geothermal drilling
Overview
Crack the challenges of geothermal drilling
Carrying out a reliable geothermal well construction project is no easy task—even if our experts make it look that way. We leverage our GeothermEx™ geothermal consulting services to get it done right. Our expertise enables
- optimal drilling performance in different types of hard rock using unique drill bit designs
- operating in high temperatures by utilizing durable and corrosion-resistant equipment that provides robust seals for long-term stability and resistance to pressure and temperature cycles
- drilling more reliably and accurately to reach drilling targets—whether they are shallow, simple wells or complex multilateral wells for enhanced or advanced geothermal systems (EGS and AGS).
Applications
Our drilling expertise runs deep
We provide everything from early consultation to complete management of all aspects of planning, drilling, logging, and testing. Our experts have supported everything from single-well drilling and workover operations to field development programs. We have a long history of delivering wells on time and within budget, with more than 200,000 m (650,000 feet) of geothermal exploration, production, and injection wells.
GeothermEx services have been involved in 70% of all operating geothermal power projects worldwide.
Benefits
Tap into the earth’s energy with confidence
Powerful tech and expert knowledge come together in our wide-ranging, dependable drilling consulting services.
70 countries
Our expertise extends across the traditional geothermal domains like the Ring of Fire and into nonvolcanic areas, including deep sedimentary basins.
Six continents
We drill all different types of wells across a range of geologies, temperatures, pressures, and fluid chemistries in sites around the world. No project is beyond our scope.
50 years
Since 1973, GeothermEx services have been used to provide unbiased well construction advice to geothermal project developers both private and public, helping them succeed technically and financially.
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