The 11 partners of the OptiDrill project met for a consortium meeting at IEG Bochum, Fraunhofer, Germany, on 13-14 December 2022. During the meeting, the partners discussed the overview and result of the periodic review held on 26 September with the external reviewers and the project officer, a representative of EC CINEA. The consortium then …
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OptiDrill’s explainer video on OptiDrill Concept: Optimisation of Geothermal Drilling Operation with Machine Learning has been published on our YouTube channel. Watch it here
The OptiDrill project has organised it’s first open webinar, which will focus on OptiDrill’s drilling advisory system. OptiDrill project is developing a real-time drilling advisory system for optimising the geothermal drilling operation utilising novel sensors and Machine Learning (ML) methods. The webinar aims to discuss the OptiDrill concept and its newest developments. The Webinar took …
With the recent energy crisis in Europe and worldwide, there is no doubt that we need several alternatives and sustainable energy sources. Geothermal energy has been identified with one of the greatest potentials as the world is transitioning toward renewable and sustainable net zero energy. However, this geothermal energy comes with a high price, and …
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According to the MIT Technology Review, the earth has enough geothermal energy to supply twice over the world’s total electrical needs. Unfortunately, the geothermal power is used to generate only about 0.3% of the worldwide electricity generation. Until now, almost all geothermal energy has gone unused. It’s the high time we think about utilizing the …
A multi-disciplined approach to solving some of the issues of deep geothermal energy usage. This short video clip shows how research and innovation teams, supported by the EU Horizon 2020 programme, are co-operating through knowledge sharing to make geothermal the low carbon baseload energy choice.Longer material lifecycles, reduced drilling costs and increased understanding of geothermal …
OptiDrill in Horizon Results Booster (HRB) initiative of the European Commission. Read More »
Today we celebrate the one year anniversary of OptiDrill Project. One year ago on this day the OptiDrill project Kicked off. Today, we celebrate by recapping the milestones we have reached in 2021. For more information read our recent newsletter
Geothermal energy can be used to produce electricity by pumping cold water at high pressure into an injection well and extracting hot water, then passing through a heat exchanger. The rest is history. A must-read article by BBC Science Focus Magazine where electricity production using geothermal energy is explained relatively simple terms. https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/how-does-geothermal-energy-work-to-produce-electricity/
Kevin J Mallin Technical Manager, OptiDrill What are the potential outputs of the OptiDrill project? Deep drilling is very similar in many ways as embarking on a long journey without a very good map or very limited information on the problems you may face on your journey. Most of us now have Satellite Navigation systems …
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