[ GEOTHERMAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELL DELIVERYA DIVISION OF METAMORPHIC HOLDINGS LLC ]

Geothermal projects developed and drilled by an oil and gas team

Geothermal drilling and well delivery, working with specialist partners where project requirements call for additional capability or experience. We are developing our first opportunities.

[ WHAT WE DO ]

Geothermal well delivery

Well design, rig selection and execution for geothermal wells, run on the same controlled delivery platform as every Metamorphic campaign.

Project development

Where Metamorphic finances a geothermal project, Metamorphic Energy structures it and this division delivers the wells.

Drilling and management for others

A geothermal operator can hire the rigs and crews, or hire the owner’s-side management, without hiring both.

[ HOW GEOTHERMAL POWER WORKS ]

Two wells. One loop. Electricity.

Closed loop: the two wells are joined by a cased lateral at depth and the fluid stays inside sealed pipe. Heat conducts through the wellbore wall.

  1. 01 · DRILL THE LOOP

    Two wells joined by a lateral at depth.

    The injection and production wells are connected downhole by a cased lateral through the hot zone. The whole circuit is sealed pipe. The drilled length in the hot rock is the heat exchanger, so drilling is the whole economic question.

  2. 02 · CIRCULATE

    Cooled water goes down and along the lateral.

    The working fluid is pumped down the injection well and through the lateral. It never touches the formation: no fractures, no formation fluid, no permeability needed.

  3. 03 · HEAT BY CONDUCTION

    Heat conducts through the wellbore wall.

    The hot rock heats the pipe and the pipe heats the fluid. The fluid comes back up the production well hot. Works in hot dry rock, and in repurposed oil and gas wells.

  4. 04 · GENERATE

    Heat becomes electricity. The loop runs.

    At surface a heat exchanger passes the heat to a working fluid that spins the turbine (in a flash plant the brine itself flashes to steam). The turbine drives the generator; the power goes to the grid. The cooled fluid returns down the injection well and the loop runs continuously.

[ WHERE WE WORK ]

Volcanic-arc geothermal

Latin America and the Caribbean, under review with specialist partners.

Repurposed oil and gas wells

Heat from existing wells in mature fields, assessed case by case.

Wherever the resource is

Location follows the resource and the partner, not where Metamorphic already drills. No geothermal work is under way yet.

[ CAPABILITIES ]

Geothermal wells

High-temperature well design and execution by drilling professionals.

Subsurface engineering

Well engineering carried from deepwater HP/HT to land operations.

Well control

Well control standards and drills adapted to geothermal conditions.

Performance

NPT, cost and schedule against the plan, on WDDP.

Opportunity screening

Resource, permit and counterparty screening before any commitment.

[ CURRENT FOCUS ]

First opportunitiesDEVELOPINGNo project is contracted yet. Opportunities are being screened; nothing on this page is a live project.

[ HOW WE WORK ]

If our money is in it, Energy leads

Metamorphic Energy holds the project company and contracts this division to deliver the wells.

If an operator hires us, that division leads

Rigs and crews from Drilling; owner’s-side management from Management; this division supports either.

One platform

Every geothermal campaign runs on WDDP, like every other Metamorphic well campaign.

[ THE PLATFORM ]

Every campaign runs on WDDP.

The Well Drilling & Decommissioning Platform: controlled documents, standards mapped to their source clauses, stage-gated delivery, and an evidence chain an auditor can walk. A Claymore & Colt product, licensed to Metamorphic.

THE PLATFORM

[ PART OF METAMORPHIC ]

Metamorphic Geothermal is the geothermal business of Metamorphic Holdings LLC. It works with Metamorphic Energy, Management and Drilling where projects need development, project delivery or well operations.

[ CONTACT ]

Talk to the people who do the work.