Upcoming Power Hour | Geothermal Exploration & Development for Oil and Gas Teams
In this Power Hour, we sit down with Joe Batir, geothermal advisor, to walk through geothermal exploration and development the way an oil and gas team would approach it.
Joe's argument is that the subsurface work is work this community already knows how to do. The harder questions sit around it. What you can actually get out of the ground once the topside takes its cut, how much of a project the permitting and the water will decide for you, and where the development is going now that the drilling has been proven out.
We will cover:
Heat in place versus what you can actually produce and convert at the surface
Which subsurface and topside skills carry over from oil and gas, and where geothermal is behind
Why the winners may not be the ones who follow everyone to Nevada
What scale, casing, and injection do to a geothermal well over its life