Western GeoPower Drilling Success
Alexander Richter
11 Dec 2008
Western GeoPower announced last week the success of its drilling program, with the completion of its fourth well at the Geysers Geothermal Field in California.
Western GeoPower announced last week the success of its drilling program, with the completion of its fourth well at the Geysers Geothermal Field in California. The well provides an initial power capacity of 9 MW. The company states that this increases the power capacity placed behind pipe to 28.7MW, representing over 70% of the initial steam resource required to supply the planned 35 MW Western GeoPower Unit1 plant.
“We are especially pleased to report that well WGP-4 has been completed considerably under budget and over one month ahead of schedule,” said Kenneth MacLeod, President & CEO of Western GeoPower. “Significant cost savings may be realized with the drilling program if future wells continue to yield similar high productivity rates.”
Source: Western GeoPower company statement
