Advanced exploration technologies for geothermal resources in a wide range of geological settings
Closed
Status as published by the data source.
Expected Outcome:
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
• Reduction of LCOE approaching SET Plan targets.
• Improved exploration technologies leading to increased drilling success rate and performance and reliability improvement of shallow and/or deep geothermal systems.
• Increased knowledge to reduce risk of seismicity and to reduce environmental impact in line with the DNSH principle.
• Increased region, city, and citizen engagement for geothermal energy. Scope:
To ensure a reliable pre-drilling assessment of shallow and/or deep geothermal resources and reservoirs, high resolution reservoir characterisation and exploration methods and approaches are essential to minimize exploration and production risks.
The projects will have to include:
• The development and application of new tools and techniques for a wider range of geologically complex geothermal resources/reservoirs and
• Coupled with innovative modelling and simulation techniques, increasing measurement precision and applying faster analysis of acquired data to achieve a feasible model of the reservoirs, and fracture systems and
• The update and improvement of state-of-the-art geological reservoir characterisation and exploration techniques and methods to reduce the average cost for exploration. Such progress will be addressed in increasing detail the geological complexity of resources and increasing target depths. Technical and economic validation is expected of the innovative exploration and production approaches and tools and methods which are expected to increase the precision for geologically based resource assessment, the target definition of exploratory drilling, and to improve the characterisation and prediction of reservoir geology and long-term reservoir performance. Moving beyond the state of the art by demonstrating the application of new tools, developing new approaches and taking advantage of improved software and computing power, the drilling success will be increased by 20% in 2030 and 50% in 2035 thereby reducing the exploration costs.
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Activities are expected to achieve TRL 5 by the end of the project – see General Annex B.
- Status
- Closed
- Deadline
- (time not stated)
- Opens
- Published
- Total budget
- €8,000,000
- Grant range
- €4,000,000 – €4,000,000
- Country
- European Union (EU-wide)
- Programme
- Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
- Official page
- Open at the source portal
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