The 400C Vitality Salt Cove geothermal website, adjoining to the Blundell energy plant. (supply: 400C Vitality)
Geothermal developer 400C Vitality has acquired the rights for a website in Salt Cove, Utah to develop a 100-MWe geothermal venture utilizing EGS know-how.
400C Vitality (400C), a tech-enabled next-generation geothermal developer, is happy to announce the acquisition of 1960 acres of exploration rights within the State of Utah.
400C will develop this scorching, dry useful resource offset of the Division of Vitality FORGE venture and Blundell Geothermal Energy Plant to provide carbon-free, 24/7 dispatchable electrical energy at an LCOE corresponding to photo voltaic. This outlier LCOE is achievable with a proprietary hydraulic stimulation know-how that gives a step-change enhance in downhole floor space and deployable temperatures whereas rising powerplant life by utilizing circulate conformance inherent within the tech.
400C, with business companions, can even deploy quite a lot of business applied sciences from the oil and gasoline business together with prolonged attain drilling, mud-cooling, excessive temperature directional drilling tools, excessive efficiency casing connections, dissolvable metals in addition to electrical high-spec drilling rigs and frac pumpers ran on grid linked energy.
“Tech-enabled enhanced geothermal energy is significant to reaching grid resilience and reasonably priced power abundance. We’ll develop this 275oC useful resource to display our applied sciences’ capabilities whereas breaking energy output information for an EGS nicely pair,” mentioned Blake Wooden, President at 400C Vitality.
“We can even enable our wells for use as a sandbox for rising know-how suppliers together with excessive temperature surveying and novel insulated drill pipe as a way to extend know-how readiness for longer horizontals in more durable and warmer rocks”.
Sandbox Program
400C is saying its inaugural Sandbox Program the place rising nicely development know-how suppliers might be offered a possibility to extend their TRL ranges in excessive temperature nicely on the Salt Cove venture. All events ought to point out their curiosity at sandbox@400cenergy.com. The goal applied sciences embrace:
- Excessive temperature wellbore surveying and directional drilling tools
- Mud cooling and insulated drill pipe
- Novel drill pipe safety
- Excessive temperature open-hole packers and cement
- Excessive temperature liner hangers and casing floatation
- Excessive temperature toe activation valves and shoe observe tools
- Price of penetration enhancements and bit longevity
- Electrical cementing and strain pumping providers
- Electrical service and drilling rig suppliers
Salt Cove
“We’re excited concerning the unimaginable useful resource at Salt Cove subsequent to the FORGE website. We’re focusing on 275oC temperatures at this website to provide 100 MWe on a FOAK enhanced geothermal system at LCOE charges aggressive to photo voltaic. Our FOAK nicely design could have over 300 stimulation therapies and represents a step-change enhance in downhole floor space over the main next-gen EGS developments. Inherent in our know-how are autonomous circulate management units that can restrict the circulate of brine that may be pumped by every interval of the nicely. This circulate management know-how will improve the useful resource longevity and drastically decrease our LCOE.”, mentioned Blake Wooden of 400C.
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