Mar 12 2010
GeothermEx offers consulting, operational, and training services for geothermal power plants. The company follows an interdisciplinary approach to cover all the phases in the project development. GeothermEx has handled geothermal field development, assessment, exploration, drilling projects for private companies and government agencies. The consultation services provided by the company involve project management, resource testing and analysis, exploration and drilling.
Geothermal Drilling services from GeothermEx help the client from the exploration of the bore hole to the completion of the project. They have experience in drilling in locations, which have a wide range of pressures, temperatures and fluid chemistry. GeothermEx has drilled simple, shallow temperature holes to the complicated ones with multiple leg completions. The drilling services include selection of sites for the construction of wells, designing drills, procuring drilling services, resolving drilling problems, and completion of drilling at selected sites.
GeothermEx has drilled high-temperature and low temperature drilling systems, single-phase, two-phase hypersaline systems, and steam-dominated systems. The drilling is carried out with mud, foam, air and water and depths upto 3,500 meter. Exploration, injection, and production wells with depths up to 150,000 meters have been drilled by GeothermEx. GeothermEx has drilled three production wells, four forked wells, and three injection well workovers at the Geysers Geothermal field, California.
GeothermEx has its own team of drilling engineers, well-site geologist, drilling superintendents, project managers and well test engineers. They provide casing-strength programs designed with the help of computers, designing and monitoring of injection-tracer, and geochemical scale-forecast.
Source: http://geothermex.com