With an official start on June 12th, it has been 3 months now since we launched the first geothermal electricity production pilot for MEET. Let‘s recall why we do this, how we do it and also take a look at the initial results. Why? A lot of hot brine is produced together with oil production…
The first conceptual model for Göttingen demo site has been developed based on the Discrete Fracture Network (DFN) approach as shown in Figure 1 by MEET-partner Technical University of Darmstadt (TUDa). In the first strongly simplified conceptual model set-up, 80 fractures are randomly placed inside a 200 m cube and bounded by 50 m thick…
With the ambition to increase the share of clean energy in United Kingdom’s energy portfolio, Cornwall has been the focus of deep geothermal resource studies starting from 1980s with the Rosemanowes Hot Dry Rock project. Today our associated partner the United Downs Deep Geothermal Power Project (UDDGP), the first industrial deep geothermal power project of…
Work over rig of the United Downs Deep Geothermal Power project while logging and hydraulically testing the well UD-1 in July 2020 (photo by Lucy Cotton, GeoScience Ltd.) At the United Downs Deep Geothermal Project (UDDGP) demosite the second phase of well logging and testing of the deep well UD-1 (5058 m total vertical depth…
The aim of the Soultz-sous-Forêts Geothermal Power Plant (SGPP, Upper Rhine Graben, France) is to optimize the exploitation of a fractured granitic reservoir (Figure 1), while minimizing environmental issues. In MEET project, this demo-site is tested for enhancing energy production. To this aim, the temperature of the reinjected fluid is to be lowered from 70°C…
A field campaign based on the water sampling of 50 springs was realized by the Geological Survey of Belgium (GSB) between October 2019 and March 2020. The aim of studying spring water in the near field (in the Havelange drilling area) and in the far field (near the analogues sites) was to determine the mineral…
The H2020 Multidisciplinary and multi-context demonstration of EGS exploration and Exploitation Techniques and potentials (MEET) is a European project, which aims at enhancing demonstration of geothermal energy production throughout Europe. Part of the MEET project is dedicated to characterization of geothermal reservoirs analogues in order to better understand the behavior of target exploited reservoir, especially…
In the frame of the H2020 MEET project, a fibre-optic cable has been deployed on July 30th in the 2.2 km-deep observation well EPS-1 in the Soultz-sous-Forêts geothermal site. Prior to field operation, ESG was in charge of the risk assessment, technical specifications, tender analysis and well logging company selection. This descent, the second one…