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Steve Chairing the IADD meeting

Steve Krase our CEO is chairing the IADD “Some Like it Hot” geothermal drilling event at the Nabors office in Houston, September 21. Update: Steve hosted and organised this week’s

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Welcome Gorka!

Starting 1st September 2023 in our Bilbao office. Meet our latest addition to the Hephae team! Gorka Plata starts as a Mechanical Design Engineer. Gorka obtained his PhD in 2018

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Project InnerSpace retreat

John is just back from the InnerSpace 2023 team retreat – a weekend of strategising and developing new ideas to push #geothermalenergy forwards. Was great to meet many of the

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Deusto

Great meeting this week with Jokin Lozares of Universidad de Deusto in Bilbao. Discussing great things for the future and below; shooting a special video that we can share later in the

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Congratulations to Fervo Energy

In what could be the “Drake Well” moment for Enhanced Geothermal Systems, Fervo has proved that modern oil and gas well construction technologies can create a viable EGS well. Congrats

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Our Bilbao office is officially open!

Team building in Spain. Pictured are Pete Harvey, VP Technology; Shraddha Singh, Mechanical Design Engineer; and Jon Careaga, Bizkaia Operations Manager. With Jon and Shraddha on board, our Bilbao office

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Welcome Darryl!

Meet another new addition to the Hephae team! Darryl Roe started as a Senior Firmware Engineer in our Houston office on 1 July. Darryl has been developing firmware and software

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Watch the presentation

Pushing the Temperature Limits of Electronics and Sensor Technologies CTO John Clegg recently presented to the geothermal technical section of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. Why high temperature measurement and

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‘It is electrifyingly exciting’

How Britain could be freed from fossil fuels forever It’s something miners have always known: the further down you go, the hotter it gets. But, asks Harry Cockburn, can Britain catch

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Matthew attends SemiCon West 11-13 July, 2023

At SEMICON West, industry professionals, “Building a Path Forward.”  The event focused on key challenges affecting the global microelectronics industry which include Supply Chain Disruptions, Climate Change, and Talent Shortages,

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Welcome Shraddha

Meet a new addition to the Hephae team! Shraddha Singh started as a Mechanical Design Engineer in our Bilbao office on 1 July. After gaining a Bachelors in Industrial and

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TED Countdown Day 2

At the decommissioned and soon-to-be demolished River Rouge coal-fired power plant just outside Detroit. The infrastructure at old coal-fired plants potentially lends itself very well to repurposing for geothermal. Replacing

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Energy Independence

Zimbabwe has recently prohibited the export of raw lithium from its mines so it can cash in on its resource by bringing the value chain elements associated with processing in-country and prevent

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Lateral Thinking

In the last blog we mentioned that many operators we have spoken to are interested in the transfer of horizontal well technology from the oil and gas industry. For further

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Drilling (Straight) Ahead

A recent article in Journal of Petroleum Technology (JPT) magazine https://jpt.spe.org/microwave-drilling-sounds-like-science-fiction-but-so-does-drilling-down-to-the-hottest-rock describes the plans of a new drilling technology company, Quaise Energy, to utilise microwave drilling to enable the creation

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Steve Krase on CORE Knowledge Podcast

Our CEO Steve Krase talks to Nick Cestari about how to make geothermal energy scalable and accessible everywhere, and how Hephae will contribute with the high temperature drilling and measurement tools that will be an important part of the equation.

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It’s Time

John Clegg, Hephae’s CTO, discusses how timing is everything for innovation – and how the timing is perfect for developing our technology!

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Welcome to the Hephae Blog

Welcome! On behalf of the entire Hephae Energy Technology team, welcome to our blog. As we move along this journey to help build one million geothermal wells, we’ll be providing

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