Eavor’s EVP Corporate Affairs and co-founder Jeanine Vany had proactive discussions about the future of renewable energy at the Global Energy Show 2023. The Global Energy Show hosts exhibitions, panelists, conferences, and awards that bring a multitude of companies from across the petroleum and renewable energy sectors. Companies have the opportunity to showcase their technology and share innovative ideas on how to reduce Canada’s carbon footprint. Furthermore, experts were invited to stimulate conversations about how Canada can be a world leader in clean technologies. Organized by Young Women in Energy (YWE)’s Katie Smith-Parent, Vany was joined by panelists Vittoria Bellissimo, Laura Kennett, Vilasini P Pillay, and Nicole Boisvert to discuss renewable energy development in Alberta.

Published last April, “Our Hidden Powers” is a light-hearted children’s book that illustrates a story about the importance of geothermal energy. Main character, Ignis, and her friends embark on a journey of self-discovery, and how geothermal power, as well as other forms of renewable energy, can help the planet. ThinkGeo recently interviewed the authors of the book, Kristina Hagström-Ilievska and Gabriella Skog, to learn more about the motivation behind the book’s creation. According to Hagström-Ilievska, inspiration came when trying to explain how geothermal energy works to her son. “Our Hidden Powers” was then created as a fun way to introduce geothermal energy to children, and teach the youngest generation how it can be utilized to help the planet.

ThinkGeo conducted an interview with Segment Director Jeremy O’Brien to discuss how Seequent has been adapting to shifting needs of the geothermal industry over the last decade. Seequent provides software that enables subsurface professionals to gain maximum value from their geological, geophysical, geochemical, reservoir engineering, and geotechnical data. Since 2012, the New Zealand-based software has been assisting the global industry in multiple ways, such as planning where to drill wells, understanding geothermal resources better, and using downstream tools to simulate reservoirs and assess their performance. According to O’Brien, approximately 65 percent of all current geothermal power generated globally is “supported by Seequent technology in one way or another.” He also stated that this technology is going to be a great asset as many countries aim for Net Zero in future decades.

Eavor is excited to welcome Stephan Hannke of OMV to our Board of Directors. Stephan Hannke is a Senior Advisor with OMV, a global oil, gas and chemicals group with headquarters in Vienna, Austria. Stephan works in the Low Carbon Business area of the Energy division, and together with his team, they are leading business growth in geothermal closed-loop technology (EAVOR) in selected European countries. His goal is to support the decarbonization of cities and industry, through identifying, enabling and delivering clean heat production using EAVOR geothermal closed-loop technology.

GA Drilling mentioned Eavor as one of Canada’s leading Advanced Geothermal Systems (AGS) in a LinkedIn article. The article dives into the methods and schematics of how AGS closed loop systems works, which is the technology that Eavor uses. The process begins by drilling vertical wells several thousand feet into the ground. The wells are then deviated horizontally into multilaterals. A working fluid is then introduced into the injection well, where the liquid can then absorb heat from the rock via conduction. This hot liquid then rises up the outlet well to the facility. The hot liquid is then passed through a heat exchanger, transferred to a secondary fluid, which is then vaporized to spin a turbine and generate electricity. Alternatively, the produced heat from the system can be used for heating applications.

The newly launched TRANSGEO project aims to investigate abandoned oil and gas wells in central Europe and how they can be utilized for extracting geothermal energy. The project was co-funded by the European Commission and the Interreg Central Europe Programme. With a budget of €2.61 million (80 percent funded by the European Regional Development Fund), the project has partners in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Croatia, and Slovenia. The coordinator for this project is Hannes Hofmann, the head of the Helmholtz Young Investigators Group “Advanced Reservoir Engineering Concepts (ARES)” at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam.