Drilling rig of Iceland Drilling on website at Hellisheidi/ Iceland (supply: firm)
Iceland Drilling will drill eight new manufacturing wells to help manufacturing capability of the Hellisheiði and Nesjavellir geothermal energy crops of ON Energy.
Orka Náttúrunnar (ON Energy) has signed an settlement for Járðboranir (Iceland Drilling) to drill eight manufacturing wells to help the manufacturing capability of the Hellisheiði and Nesjavellir geothermal energy crops within the Hengil space in Iceland. Drilling is scheduled to happen from 2025 to 2027.
Iceland Drilling will drill three wells in Nesjavellir, one in Hellisheiði, and 4 in Hverahlíð. The drilling of recent manufacturing wells is important to compensate for the pure subsidence of high-temperature methods within the area. It’s the nature of all high-temperature methods that their effectivity, each when it comes to water and steam, decreases when they’re put into use.
The undertaking can also be essential to fulfill the expansion in vitality demand primarily based on forecasts for inhabitants improvement within the Iceland capital. There are additionally prospects for a major growth of the electrical energy market in Iceland as a result of aim of changing into carbon impartial by 2040.
“This can be very necessary to proceed to generate vitality with the means we all know. Orka náttúrunnar is a vital producer of each sizzling water and electrical energy, and we wish to have the ability to keep an unimpaired service to our clients for the longer term,” mentioned Árni Hrannar Haraldsson, Govt Director of ON Energy. “Our cooperation with Járðboranir has been superb and we look ahead to persevering with it with the purpose of sustaining the standard of life that Orka náttúrunnar creates for the individuals of the nation.”
An important a part of the tender for the drilling undertaking was that the drill for use should be powered by electrical energy. ON Energy locations nice significance on executing the undertaking in a accountable and environmentally pleasant means. Thus, the Óðinn drill rig of Iceland Drilling was electrified for the undertaking, which is able to save over two million liters of diesel.
“We at Jarðborun are extraordinarily completely happy that this undertaking is beginning. The experience that has been constructed up over the previous many years at Járðborunur can be put to good use in these thrilling holes which can be about to be drilled,” mentioned Sveinn Hannesson, CEO of Iceland Drilling. “We now have had an extended and profitable partnership with ON and we anticipate it to proceed within the coming years. Each corporations at the moment are taking time to arrange for these main initiatives that can start in Could 2025.”
The Hellisheiði geothermal energy plant can also be supplying energy to the Mammoth direct air seize and storage facility by Climeworks, which began operations only recently.
Supply: Orka Náttúrunnar
