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A word of closure from Prof. Alberto Striolo and Prof. Adrian Jones
The S4CE project brought together 23 partners from across Europe paving the way for expert international collaborations to monitor, measure, control and prevent environmental contamination related to geo-energy operations. During 40 months, the consortium has achieved...
S4CE policy recommendations for more geothermal energy production in Europe
In the European context and as a clean technology, geothermal energy falls within the ambit of the European Union (EU) energy policy. During 2019 and 2020, the EU has signalled its intent to become a net-zero bloc by 2050 by launching several large strategic...
Life Cycle Assessment-based software for geothermal applications available for download
S4CE assessed the environmental impacts, including carbon emissions, of geothermal operations at partners site by means of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). S4CE partners Andrea Paulillo (UCL), Xiaofei Cui (TWI) and Paul Brown (TWI) worked together to develop a flexible...
A first ever undisturbed temperature profile to about 3.5 km total vertical depth was obtained within “St.Gallen GT-1”
Partner St.Gallen has been aiming at supporting the work of S4CE partners by indirectly determining well integrity by simple means (existing methodology / technology) within the easy accessible sections of the well during standard well maintenance procedures. The work...
St. Gallen episode on the IS-EPOS Platform now public!
The data from St. Gallen field site in Switzerland is now fully open on the IS-EPOS platform. This episode is related to geothermal energy production, with a data set for correlating seismic activity to fluid injection and gas-water production that lead to increased...
Geothermal energy site in Cornwall active again
The geothermal energy site in Cornwall has been active again, running pumping water tests in the geothermal wellbores. Ryan Law, Director of Geothermal Engineering Ltd (GEL) explains: "Two sets of injection tests have now been run at the United Downs site. S4CE...
Measurements of well integrity at St. Gallen field site
In the first week of September, the St. Gallen well operator and field site received the visit of our experienced German partner Geomecon for quality control, along with the subcontractor Geotec Consult which worked on the coordination, field quality control, and...
