Oil and Veg- Exploring the potential for repurposing oil & gas wells for heating protected horticulture

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Title
Oil and Veg- Exploring the potential for repurposing oil & gas wells for heating protected horticulture

CoPED ID
0a153b98-de62-43ab-ad7c-c80f90d658aa

Status
Closed


Value
£33,222

Start Date
Jan. 1, 2022

End Date
March 30, 2022

Description

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This project will enable UK based company District Eating Ltd to explore international partnership opportunities to investigate the significant potential for co-location of protected horticulture alongside geothermal energy recovery from former onshore oil and gas wells (OGW).

The work will seek to develop partnerships to measure, maximise, encourage and facilitate energy costs and CO2 emissions reductions for all parties.

Globally, it is estimated that there are 29 million former OGW, some of which could be repurposed to supply heat for power generation, heating and cooling supply. Whilst electricity can be transported relatively cheaply, heat cannot, therefore the economic viability of geothermal heat recovery relies on the presence of significant, sustained heat demands close to the site of extraction. Heating comprises a significant proportion of operating costs of protected horticulture businesses at Northern latitudes. In other cases, controlled environment horticulture requires significant power and/or cooling.

At present, most heat used in protected horticulture is derived from fossil fuels, leading to CO2 emissions. Accessing low carbon geothermal heat, power and/or cooling from repurposed OGW at lower, stabilised costs will provide economic and environmental benefits to horticultural businesses and the operators of former OGW -- a win-win for both parties. Repurposing former OGW for geothermal energy significantly reduces the risk and costs associated with drilling new boreholes, and removes the costs associated with decommissioning boreholes at the end of life.

This project enables the scale of these potential synergies to be developed by exploring the potential for partnership and collaborative working between international specialists in geothermal energy recovery and District Eating Ltd an innovative leader in the recovery of waste heat for protected horticulture.

District Eating Ltd LEAD_ORG
District Eating Ltd PARTICIPANT_ORG

Mike Milner PM_PER
Mike Milner PM_PER

Subjects by relevance
  1. Emissions
  2. Geothermal energy
  3. Costs
  4. Partnership
  5. Energy
  6. Sustainable development
  7. Business operations
  8. Ground heat
  9. Horticulture
  10. Enterprises
  11. Gas prospecting
  12. Heat energy
  13. Decrease (active)
  14. Potential energy
  15. Climate changes
  16. Heat recovery
  17. Renewable energy sources

Extracted key phrases
  1. Geothermal heat recovery
  2. Onshore oil
  3. Geothermal energy recovery
  4. Low carbon geothermal heat
  5. Significant potential
  6. Energy cost
  7. Company District Eating Ltd
  8. Gas well
  9. Horticulture business
  10. Potential synergy
  11. Sustained heat demand
  12. International partnership opportunity
  13. Environment horticulture
  14. Significant power
  15. Waste heat

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