Drilling for the Geretsreid undertaking started in July 2023. The plan was for 2 drilling rigs to function in parallel, drilling right down to 4500 meters vertical depth earlier than deflecting horizontally.
The video reel revealed by Eavor on their LinkedIn web page additionally confirmed ongoing building of the air-cooled condenser (ACC) models for the longer term ORC energy plant. Turboden was chosen again in 2022 to provide the ORC system for the Gerestried undertaking.
Odfjell Know-how, an built-in provider of effectively providers expertise and engineering options, has been chosen by Eavor to supply tubular working providers for the Geretsried undertaking. The Odfjell Know-how staff 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 Know-how’s casing working instrument, CRTi, was used to its working limits and performed an important function in reaching the casings’ desired depths utilizing its circulating, rotating, push and pull capabilities.
“Odfjell Know-how is proud to play an important function in progressing geothermal within the international vitality combine via our industry-leading tubular working providers,” stated Elisabeth Haram, EVP Effectively Companies at Odfjell Know-how.
“We’re proud to be constructing the world’s first Eavor-Loop™ closed-loop geothermal system in Geretsried. This really modern and sport altering undertaking enhances the applying of geothermal vitality in actual phrases inside the wider vitality sector,” stated Daniel Mölk, Execute Vice President Europe Operations at Eavor. “We appreciated the cooperation with Odfjell Know-how on this particular a part of the undertaking very a lot.”
Eavor has now drilled right down to 7000 meters measured depth, whereas energy plant building can also be ongoing.