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"Australian hot rock geothermal energy is back on the agenda, to the excitement
of enthusiasts who led the last wave of companies 15 years ago, and perhaps
consternation and regret to those who lost their shirts when these failed.
The reason why the concept is back on the agenda is due to new drilling
techniques developed by the shale oil and gas industry, according to Graeme
Beardsmore, University of Melbourne fellow and shareholder in one of the
revived Australian geothermal companies.
“There are projects underway right now that are adapting shale drilling
techniques for geothermal,” he told
Renew Economy.
“Back in the last wave of geothermal enthusiasm in Australia, none of this
would be possible. [Shale techniques are] game changing potentially for the
kinds of projects that were attempted in Australia 15 years ago.”
Today, ASX-listed Earth’s Energy is dusting off the South Australian Paralana
hot rocks project, once owned by Petrathem before being shelved in 2014, and
the Flinders West project previously owned by GreenRock, and exploration
tenements in Queensland stretching from Gold Coast inland to Roma.
Groundbreaking Energy has licences to explore the old Panax Geothermal
tenements in the Otway Basin in Victoria, where that company had its Salamander
and Penola projects.
And a company calling itself Solutions Energy is claiming the former KUTh
Energy tenements in Tasmania, although the official applicants for these
licences are entities called Lemont Geo Lithium, Fingal Energy, and Hunter
Valley Geothermal Energy for a Hunter Valley exploration area."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
