Drilling for the Geretsreid mission started in July 2023. The plan was for 2 drilling rigs to function in parallel, drilling all the way down to 4500 meters vertical depth earlier than deflecting horizontally.
The video reel printed by Eavor on their LinkedIn web page additionally confirmed ongoing development of the air-cooled condenser (ACC) models for the longer term ORC energy plant. Turboden was chosen again in 2022 to produce the ORC system for the Gerestried mission.
Odfjell Expertise, an built-in provider of effectively providers know-how and engineering options, has been chosen by Eavor to supply tubular operating providers for the Geretsried mission. The Odfjell Expertise workforce efficiently ran 20,000m of large-size casings starting from 9-5/8” as much as 22” with none misplaced time incidents on the KCA Deutag T700 and T46 rigs – the 2 largest land rigs in Europe.
Odfjell Expertise’s casing operating instrument, CRTi, was used to its working limits and performed an important position in reaching the casings’ desired depths utilizing its circulating, rotating, push and pull capabilities.
“Odfjell Expertise is proud to play an important position in progressing geothermal within the world power combine via our industry-leading tubular operating providers,” mentioned Elisabeth Haram, EVP Effectively Companies at Odfjell Expertise.
“We’re proud to be constructing the world’s first Eavor-Loop™ closed-loop geothermal system in Geretsried. This really progressive and recreation altering mission enhances the applying of geothermal power in actual phrases inside the wider power sector,” mentioned Daniel Mölk, Execute Vice President Europe Operations at Eavor. “We appreciated the cooperation with Odfjell Expertise on this particular a part of the mission very a lot.”
Eavor has now drilled all the way down to 7000 meters measured depth, whereas energy plant development can be ongoing.
