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Deep Earth Energy Production (DEEP) is looking to leverage that energy with the development of Canada’s first large-scale purely geothermal power facility, located about a half-hour’s drive southwest of Estevan in southeast Saskatchewan.
The project has been under development for more than 10 years and leverages the strengths of the province’s oil and gas industry to push the limits of directional drilling into the aquifer of the Williston Sedimentary Basin. The first well was drilled in 2018 to a depth of 3,530 metres, a Saskatchewan record. With an additional five wells, the project constitutes the six deepest wells ever drilled in the province.
“A lot of the Saskatchewan oil and gas fields are now arguably just water fields with a little bit of an oil cut,” he says. “If you’re looking for projects to support district heating, there’s a lot you can do with 60-degree water, which pretty much opens up the southern part of the province.”
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