Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Commonwealth of Dominica:

Dominica Says Drilling Complete on Geothermal Production Wells (Caribbean Journal)

Dominica’s government said this week that the drilling of its geothermal production wells had been completed.

According to Energy Minister Rayburn Blackmoore, the country has finished that phase of the country’s geothermal project.

The next phase of the project will involve shutting down the wells for a period of 12 weeks in order to “monitor progress on the generation of heat,” according to the government.

“I have been so advised that to generate energy you need to have a minimum of 180 degrees Celsius based on the reviews we have gotten thus far, it is above 235 degrees.  I think that this is tremendous for us going forward,” Blackmoore said in a government release.

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