Iceland Deep Drilling Project (IDDP)

• The main purpose of the IDDP project is to find out if it is economically feasible to extract energy and chemicals out of hydrothermal systems at supercritical conditions. To study the supercritical hydrous fluid, an advanced drilling technology needs to be applied and a novel fluid handling and evaluation system designed.
• (Figure ©: IDDP)

• Potential Benefits of the IDDP:

• Increased power output per well, perhaps by an order of magnitude, and production of higher-value, high-pressure, high-temperature steam.
• Development of an environmentally benign, high-enthalpy energy source below currently producing geothermal fields.
• Extended lifetime of the exploited geothermal reservoirs and power generation facilities.
• Re-evaluation of the geothermal resource base.
• Industrial, educational, and economic spin-off.
• Knowledge of permeabilities within drillfields below 2 km depth.
• Knowledge of heat transfer from magma to water.
• Heat sweeping by injection of water into hot, deep wells.
• Possible extraction of valuable chemical products?
• Advances in research on ocean floor hydrothermal systems.

See also:

• ICDP-05/02

Europe, Atlantic Ocean, Iceland, Reykjanes, Hellisheidi, Krafla

63° 49' 12'' N or 65° 46' N, 22° 41' 24'' W or 16° 46' W (Please scroll down to end of page for more information.)

• IDDP-1: June 19, 2008 (begin)

• Government of Iceland
• Icelandic Drilling Companies
• International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP)
• U.S. National Science Foundation

• Gudmundur Ómar Fridleifsson, Hitaveita Suðurnesja HF

• Wilfred Allan Elders, University of California at Riverside, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
• Seiji Saito (†), Tohoku University, Graduate School of Science, Department of Geoscience and Technology

• British Geological Survey, Marine Operations
• DOSECC, Inc.
• Erga Gruppo Enel
• GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Scientific Drilling ICDP (Operational Support Group OSG/ICDP)
• Hitaveita Suðurnesja HF
• Iceland GeoSurvey (ISOR), Geological Department
• Landsvirkjun
• Orkustofnun, National Energy Authority
• Orkuveita Reykjavíkur
• Tohoku University, Graduate School of Science, Department of Geoscience and Technology
• U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, Menlo Park
• University of California at Riverside, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
• University of Iceland
• VGK Engineering

Geothermy , ICDP-05/02 , Iceland , IDDP , Native Hydrogen , Natural Resources , Rifting , Supercritical Fluids , Thermal Regimes , Volcanic Systems

Drilling operations are ongoing

• http://www.iddp.is/

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