Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Canada, Australia:

Canadian Company Helps Geodynamics Successfully Complete Habanero-4 Geothermal Well (Canada NewsWire - Press Release)

Packers Plus Energy Services Inc., based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, has given some details of its work with Geodynamics Limited to successfully complete a vertical geothermal well as part of Geodynamics Innamincka Deeps Project in the Cooper Basin of South Australia.

Geodynamics announced on July 22, 2013 that the company had commissioned the 1 MWe Habanero Pilot Plant and successfully concluded planned step rate testing and an extended turbine test run.

Packers Plus worked closely with Geodynamics to design specialized Inferno™ completions equipment capable of withstanding 300°C (600°F) and 69 MPa (10,000 psi) pressure. This equipment was instrumental to the EGS process, which involves stimulating existing fractures in low-permeability, high-temperature rock to allow water to flow through and be superheated. Geoff Ward, CEO of Geodynamics stated, "the willingness of Packers Plus to design and test their equipment to the limit has made them a strategic partner for Geodynamics."

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