Thursday, August 27, 2015

El Salvador: Drilling Starts on Well for 10 MW Geothermal Power Plant

Salvadorian Government Opens New Geothermal Energy Well (CEL)

The Salvadoran government has announced the start of drilling activities for a geothermal well in Chinameca, department of San Miguel, some 138 kilometers east of the capital, San Salvador.

The Comisión Ejecutiva Hidreléctrica del Río Lempa (CEL) estimates the new well will produce from eight to 10 megawatts of geothermal energy by 2017. CEL president, David Antonio Lopez, said that the investment is estimated at $7.5 million USD.

The CHI 6A well is in the Chinameca Geothermal field, which, as a whole, is estimated to have a capacity of 50 megawatts, hopefully achieved by 2019. The drilling of four more wells for production and reinjection is expected later this year. The production wells reach a reservoir temperature of between 240 and 260 degrees Celsius at a depth between 1,800 and 2,000 meters.

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