Sage Geosystems and Halliburton Bring Oilfield Discipline to Next-Generation Geothermal Sage Geosystems has selected Halliburton to provide cementing and stimulation services for Project Vector, its next commercial-scale Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) facility at Ormat Technologies’ Blue Mountain power plant in Nevada. The partnership is a practical test of a central idea in the emerging geothermal industry: that oil and gas expertise—especially in wells, fluids, reservoir engineering, and field execution—can help turn promising geothermal technology into dependable, repeatable power infrastructure. Project Vector is more than another geothermal pilot. It is Sage’s attempt to prove that its proprietary EGS approach can be deployed beyond a single demonstration site, at commercial scale, and across varied geological conditions. Halliburton’s role in well integrity and reservoir stimulation therefore matters not only to one Nevada project, but to the broader question of whether enhanc...
Imagine a group of scientists flying drones over a nuclear research center, equipped with cutting-edge technology to identify and measure the radiation being emitted from a plume source. The CNL-SCK-CEN team with their drone at Mol (Image: CNL) The team has successfully tested a new, precise measurement technique that could be invaluable to emergency response teams during an accident. But that's not all - these drones are part of a groundbreaking research project funded by the Energy Transition Fund of the FPS Economy, aimed at developing unmanned aircraft with scintillation counters that can carry out radiological measurements without any human intervention. This futuristic technology is being fine-tuned at the Mol site of Belgium's Nuclear Research Centre, and the results are promising. During the tests, the drones successfully identified the radioactive source, qualified and quantified the radiation, and produced a special visualization of the contamination. This technolog...