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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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

S4CE end date is officially pushed back to the 31st of December 2020, instead of the 31st of August 202. All delayed deliverables have now their official new due dates. A 4-month extension has been granted by the European Commission in order to complete the activities...

This report compiles the existing geological information of field sites of interest to S4CE. It is the result of the contribution of GEOMECON GMBH, St. Gallen, OR, ENI. The report is available here.  It includes the depth and location of the geologic formations of...

The geothermal innovators of the year This year on the 27th May 2020 the Ruggero Bertani European Geothermal Innovation Award 2020 was earned by the Icelandic Carbfix project and German company Eavor on equal merit. The Carbfix process captures CO2 and other sour...

After data harmonization and adoption procedures the data from hydraulic stimulation at Cooper Basin (Australia, Queensland) has been made fully open on the IS-EPOS platform. The episode COOPER BASIN can be found here The Cooper Basin geothermal field is located in...

TWI conducted a resonance fatigue test in their world-class facilities to assess the suitability of vibration analysis and acoustic emission techniques to detect crack initiation and growth on the geothermal well casing before it fails. A 4.4 meters well casing was...

Ortensia Amoroso is a Research Fellow at the Physics Department of the University of Salerno, Italy. She holds a fixed-term research contract funded by the Horizon 2020 project S4CE Science for Clean Energy. Ortensia is also part of the work team of the PRIN-2017...

On February 6th and 11th, UNISA organised an event for high school students in line with the Scientific Degree Plan (PLS) promoted by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Scientific Research. The objective is the dissemination of scientific culture, to...

Chibuikem Nwayo, a former Global Management of Natural Resources (GMNR) MSc student, did his research with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) while at the University of South Australia (UniSA). It led to a recent paper on Nutrient...

Antti Voss from UEF successfully defended his doctoral dissertation “Imaging moisture flows in cement-based materials using electrical capacitance tomography” at the University of Eastern Finland on February 7, 2020. The opponent in the public examination was...

EU-funded CROWDTHERMAL project aims at empowering society to participate in the development of geothermal projects using alternative financing schemes CROWDTHERMAL is a new project funded under the European Union’s Research and Innovation programme Horizon 2020 (grant...

Prof. Striolo is a long-time collaborator of Prof. David Cole, of the Ohio State University, and together in the frame of S4CE they contributed to the new book Deep Carbon: Past to Present from the Deep Carbon Observatory (October 2019)  Deep Carbon: Past to Present...

During his participation in the 10th Scientific and Engineering Conference on "Supercritical Fluids: Fundamentals, Technologies, Innovations", Prof. Andrey Kalinichev from ARMINES Subatech (Nantes, France) gave a lecture on "Supercritical carbon dioxide in the...

Aku Seppänen from UEF visited the Underground Rock Laboratory in Mont Terri, Switzerland, in September 16, 2019. The visit was hosted by Dr. Alba Zappone and Dr. Antonio Rinaldi from Swiss Seismological Service, ETH Zürich. UEF and ETH Zürich are planning...

From the 18th to the 21th of August, S4CE partners Stanislaw Lasocki and Beata Orlecka-Sikora from the Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences particpated to The International Statistical Seismology workshop StatSei in Hanoke, Japan. They presented their...

Geothermal Resources Council has published an article regarding S4CE and the work that TWI is performing in the project. "S4CE: Science for Clean Energy project seeks to develop a scientific workflow for informing policy makers and the wide public By TWI Ltd.,...

University of Eastern Finland and NC State visited Imperial College London from June 24th to 28th 2019 in the context of S4CE activities on Samples & Fluid Characterisation. At ICL Imaging Laboratory, they collaborated in on the combination of x-ray CT and...

MIRICO (Damien Weidmann, CSO) visits the Computational Physics and Inverse Problems Group of the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) in Kuopio (Aku Seppänen, Associate Professor). The two organisations, partnering within S4CE, discussed and established plans for...

The Department of Chemical Engineering is seeking a Research Assistant/Associate to join S4CE.  The post is hosted under the supervision of Dr. Ronny Pini and focuses on the study of the sorption properties of porous geomaterials, including clay-rich rocks, at...

S4CE is organising its second summer school "No Risk, no Energy", September 16-18, 2019, UNISA Campus, dedicated to graduates, PhD students, Post-docs (max 25). Priliminary information can be found on the website at http://s4ce2019.physics.unisa.it The deadline to...

Read the full press release that TWI published on their website regarding S4CE here: https://www.twi-global.com/media-and-events/press-releases/2019/new-system-for-failure-detection-in-geothermal-well-casing The press release was also shared from the following web...

The ShaleXenvironmenT project was established to better understand the environmental impacts of shale gas extraction in Europe. The main project findings and achievements of the ShaleXenvironmenT consortium are summarised in the CORDIS article here:...

Cuadrilla today announced results from its flow-testing of the UK’s first ever horizontal shale gas exploration well, drilled through the shale rock more than 7,500 feet beneath the Preston New Road exploration site in Lancashire. Read the full article...

In January 23, Aku Seppänen from S4CE partner UEF made a visit to Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. The visit was hosted by Damien Weidmann (MIRICO) with the purpose to initiate collaboration between MIRICO and UEF on the data analysis in gas sensing.   Picture:...

Just one more day until our next S4CE meeting in London! We are excited to see everyone again and meeting the new Early Career Researchers! Check out the agenda here.

The IS-EPOS platform will be used for storage of new data acquired during the S4CE project. A preview providing some information on data from S4CE can be found by visiting the platform here. Check out our website to find out more about S4CE Data & IS-EPOS...

Clariant, a world leader in specialty chemicals, announced a cooperation with Haelixa, a Swiss startup with expertise in DNA-based tracers and a spin-off from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich (Switzerland). As part of...

The additional station SGT18 for microseismic network is online in St.Gallen since June 2018. The network is completed for S4CE needs as planned. The operator is Swiss Seismological Service. Citation information and a Swiss view (national...

The International Carbon Conference 2018 will be held in Reykjavík, Iceland in September this year. The conference is a joint outreach meeting between five networks; CarbFix, S4CE, Metal-Aid, Deep Carbon Observatory and Carbon SAFE. The...

The new S4CE leaflet is now available. Download the leaflet here. Note all comments must be approved so your comment will not appear immediately.

S4CE is excited about the start of drilling operations at the new field site in Cornwall. The picture above shows the location of the two wells as well as the foundations for the office. We will post more updates about the progress in the next...

The Summer Challenge ‘Engineering Solutions from Nature’ is underway. A dozen pupils have been learning about Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biochemical Engineering and Earth Sciences during a 5-week programme offered by...

The Laboratory of Geology of Lyon (Université Lyon1 & ENS de Lyon, France) invites applications for a postdoctoral research associate in environmental microbiology - biogeochemistry. The project is part of the multi-disciplinary consortium...

Everyone smiles after 2 productive days of experiments ! Here with colleagues from University of Eastern Finland and North Carolina State University looking into fluid transport in cement. University of Eastern Finland researchers Aku Seppänen,...

The Hellisheidi power station, 25km (15 miles) outside Reykjavik, is Iceland’s main geothermal plant, and is one of the largest in the world.

The S4CE Kick-Off meeting was held at UCL in London 4-5 September, 2017. This meeting was the first opportunity for the 23 consortium members from 10 academic institutions, 3 subsurface industry energy operators, 7 Industrial partners, and 3...

The S4CE project consortium visit to NIS oil and gas field Rusanda took place on 23-24 November 2017. The Rusanda field site is one of the four European sites at the core of S4CE project, where development and deployment of the novel...