On May 13, 2024, a Hungarian delegation visit the first Slovenian pilot geothermal power plant, managed by Dravske Elektrarne Maribor and Petrol Geo, with project partners participation. The delegation included Hungary’s Minister of Energy Csaba Lantos, State Secretaries Dr. Gabor Czepek and Attila Steiner, the Hungarian Ambassador to Slovenia Andor David, and the Hungarian Consul…
On Monday, May 13, 2024, seven representatives from the Geological Survey of Slovenia, the Faculty of Mining, Geology, and Petroleum Engineering in Zagreb, and the Applied and Environmental Geology Group at the University of Basel in Switzerland visited a pilot geothermal power plant in Slovenia. The visit was part of an excursion for the joint…
Dravske Elektrarne Maribor, the largest producer of electricity from renewable sources within the HSE Group, began underground work at the end of 2022 to reconstruct the non-productive Pg-8 well, well of three thousand meters deep, Aboveground work, including construction and electro-mechanical installations, started in April 2023. According to the initial plans, the startup tests were…
On Tuesday, July 4, 2023, participants of the Second International Summer Geothermal School in Ljubljana visited the headquarters of Petrol Geo Ltd. and the abandoned gas well Pg-8, where DEM, Petrol Geo Ltd., the University of Maribor, and GeoZS are testing a pilot geothermal power plant under the Si-Geo-Electricity project. Professor Goričanec from UM FKKT…
On the abandoned well Pg-8, the company Petrol Geo, started underground construction work as a part of the Čentiba pilot geothermal power plant, for which Dravske elektrarne Maribor from HSE group, received a construction permit in May 2022. The keynote speaker of official underground construction works opening was dr. Aleksander Jevšek, Minister for Development and…
On November 30, 2022, a CONFERENCE ON PROMOTING GEOTHERMAL ENERGY BASED ON GOOD PRACTICE (INFO-GEOTHERMAL project) was held in Beltinci. The goal of the INFO-GEOTHERMAL project is to support the efficient cascading use of geothermal energy through access to official and public information in Slovenia. The municipalities and Ministry of the Environment and Space presented…
Nina Rman, Ph. D., representative of GeoZS, presented Si-Geo-Electricity project on 25 October 2022 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Workshop of a case studies on reinjection, cascading technologies and binary geothermal power plants was organized as part of the INFO-GEOTHERMAL project, being funded through the same financial mechanism as Si-Geo-Electricity. The event was attended by 18 representatives…
On Wednesday, 23 November 2002, at 4 p.m., there will be an online presentation of experiences and current events related to geothermal energy in Slovenia, presented by representatives of GeoZS and DEM. The event is organized by the IGCP 636 project. More information about the project is available at the link: https://en.unesco.org/international-geoscience-programme/projects/636 Numerous countries already…
is the leading Slovenian company in the field of exploration, production and maintenance of oil, gas and geothermal wells in Slovenia. After the discovery of oil, gas, mineral water, and geothermal resources in northeastern Slovenia, the company also became a producer of hydrocarbons and geothermal energy. Petrol Geo is the only qualified contractor of mining…