HYDROVOLVE: Transforming Industry Performance to Energise the Revolution
In every corner of the glove, operators are, with increasing rapidity, deploying HydroVolve’s energy saving technologies across decommissioning, conventional and geothermal well operations, applying its wealth of experience from the North Sea oil and gas sector to solve contemporary conundrums.
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“At HydroVolve we are all about energy technology innovation,” opens the Dyce, Aberdeen-based pioneer, setting out in 2011 with a clear vision to innovate and develop technology for the wells of the future. 10 years of intensive research and development later, HydroVolve is truly delivering on this vision across 12 countries and five continents.
“Our technology suite is truly transforming what’s possible for well operations,” the company declares. “We’re taking time, cost and carbon savings to new heights by fully optimising downhole performance.
“Our ever-expanding technology and patent portfolio reflects the innovation, creativity and drive of our team and our cutting-edge research and development facilities, enabling us to go from concept to production in just days or weeks to meet industry and customer demands.”
RELENTLESS INNOVATION
HydroVolve furnishes an integrated range of pioneering technology products and services across the well lifecycle, all designed, engineered and manufactured in-house by a dedicated and highly skilled team, to make geothermal function to its optimum in the here and now. “We’ve supercharged conventional drilling rigs to slash geothermal drilling cost and risk, enabling global scalability of endless, clean carbon-free energy,” HydroVolve states.
“In notoriously difficult-to-drill geothermal wells, we’re powering high performance, reducing technical risk and driving down project costs.” Geothermal has the opportunity to deliver all of our global carbon free energy needs forever, the company goes on, and yet despite its transformational potential for the sector, it has historically been hampered by the technical challenges it faces such as high drilling costs and extremely difficult, hot well environments.
The GeoVolve HYPERDRIVE, developed by HydroVolve, embodies the company’s bid to deliver unprecedented field results, using the principle of percussive-enhanced drilling to reduce geothermal drilling costs and supercharge performance.
Reduction of drilling costs, whether through abbreviating drilling operations or extending drill bit lifetime, remains one of the high-impact frontiers for improving the economics of geothermal projects. To this end, innovations that can help reduce drilling costs are of great interest to geothermal developers and potentially hold the key to unlocking deeper and hotter reservoirs, as epitomised by the development of the GeoVolve HYPERDRIVE system, expertly engineered to radically enhance the rate of penetration (ROP) and extend bit life whilst drilling in hard, ductile or interbedded rock in geothermal and conventional wells.
“GeoVolve HYPERDRIVE uses the field proven and trusted INFINITY engine to power a percussion impulse generator,” HydroVolve unpacks, “and is designed as a hostile service tool; as such, it is designed for use without elastomeric seals in ultra-hot well environments – particularly geothermal wells.
“In notoriously difficult-to-drill geothermal wells, we’re powering high performance, reducing technical risk and driving down project costs.”
OPTIMISED OPERATIONS
“Our geothermal drilling technologies are delivering record-breaking field results that slash drilling costs and reduce risk, making geothermal an affordable reality today. We’re proud and excited to be removing all barriers that have previously prevented global proliferation of geothermal.” While exploring new ways to provide endless, clean, affordable energy for everyone everywhere, HydroVolve is, simultaneously, unlocking unprecedented efficiencies and improving practises for responsible and reliable wells decommissioning.
“By simplifying decommissioning operations and reducing time, cost, risk and carbon intensity,” HydroVolve says, “we’re delivering confidence in responsibly abandoning wells and helping to eliminate their environmental impact to restore our planet to its former glory for future generations.” The North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) recently hailed the “relentless innovation,” deployed by oil and gas firms in the North Sea over the last year, which it said shows the industry “still has the thirst to develop new solutions to accelerate the energy transition, support energy production and cut emissions”.
The HydroVolve HAMMER was specifically highlighted by NSTA one such key technology, the world’s most powerful, most controllable and most versatile stuck-object extraction system again powered by the HydroVolve INFINITY engine to generate and deliver intense vibration and rapid impact force to liberate stuck objects.
“HydroVolve HAMMER is simple, rapid and robust and is operated and affords reduced operational time, increased operational success and unimaginable extraction power,” the company beams. “It provides the ultimate control, flexibility and raw power required to ensure the highest chance of success.
“Our technology suite helps mitigate both environmental and cost impact by simplifying decommissioning operations and reducing project time. We’re unlocking incredible efficiencies and improving practises for responsible and reliable wells decommissioning.
“Powered by our people and their expertise, we are transforming industry performance,” HydroVolve wraps up. “We are exploring new ways to provide endless, clean, affordable energy for everyone everywhere, to promote energy security for all and to restore integrity through responsible decommissioning.”