Montserrat:

Open Market Competition for Geothermal Drilling on Montserrat

14 January 2015, 13:30 GMT, DFID's London office, 22 Whitehall, London SW1A 2EG, U.K. and DFID Montserrat via video conference.

Montserrat Drilling Site on the Flank of the Soufriere Volcano, Bastien Poux, EGS, Inc.

The UK's Department for International Development (DFID) intends to fund the construction of a geothermal energy project on the island of Montserrat in the Caribbean. To date exploratory drilling of the two wells was completed in late 2013, with the testing program completed in July 2014. These wells are able to produce a level of output, but currently not of the capacity to provide fully the required energy output to remove the requirement for fossil fuel based energy production. A third well drilling program is now proposed to be used as a reinjection / production well to allow the two existing wells to have a combined potential generation capacity of 3 MW of power.

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