Oil and Veg- Exploring the potential for repurposing oil & gas wells for heating protected horticulture

该项目将使总部位于英国的District Eating Ltd公司能够探索国际合作机会，以研究保护园艺与前陆上油气井（OGW）地热能源回收共同定位的巨大潜力。这项工作将寻求建立伙伴关系，以衡量、最大化、鼓励和促进各方的能源成本和二氧化碳减排。在全球范围内，估计有2900万以前的OGW，其中一些可以重新利用，为发电、供暖和制冷提供热量。虽然电力可以相对便宜地运输，但热量不能，因此地热回收的经济可行性依赖于开采地点附近存在大量持续的热量需求。供暖占北纬地区受保护园艺企业运营成本的很大一部分。在其他情况下，受控环境园艺需要大量的电力和/或冷却。目前，在受保护的园艺中使用的大部分热量来自化石燃料，导致二氧化碳排放。以更低、稳定的成本从再利用的OGW中获取低碳地热、电力和/或冷却，将为园艺企业和前OGW的运营商提供经济和环境效益，这对双方来说都是双赢的。将以前的OGW重新利用为地热能源，大大降低了钻井新井眼的风险和成本，并消除了井眼在使用寿命结束时的退役成本。该项目通过探索国际地热能回收专家和区域饮食有限公司之间的合作伙伴关系和协作工作的潜力，使这些潜在的协同效应得以发展。区域饮食有限公司是受保护园艺废热回收的创新领导者。

This project will enable UK based company District Eating Ltd to explore international partnership opportunities to investigate the significant potential for co-location of protected horticulture alongside geothermal energy recovery from former onshore oil and gas wells (OGW).The work will seek to develop partnerships to measure, maximise, encourage and facilitate energy costs and CO2 emissions reductions for all parties.Globally, it is estimated that there are 29 million former OGW, some of which could be repurposed to supply heat for power generation, heating and cooling supply. Whilst electricity can be transported relatively cheaply, heat cannot, therefore the economic viability of geothermal heat recovery relies on the presence of significant, sustained heat demands close to the site of extraction. Heating comprises a significant proportion of operating costs of protected horticulture businesses at Northern latitudes. In other cases, controlled environment horticulture requires significant power and/or cooling.At present, most heat used in protected horticulture is derived from fossil fuels, leading to CO2 emissions. Accessing low carbon geothermal heat, power and/or cooling from repurposed OGW at lower, stabilised costs will provide economic and environmental benefits to horticultural businesses and the operators of former OGW -- a win-win for both parties. Repurposing former OGW for geothermal energy significantly reduces the risk and costs associated with drilling new boreholes, and removes the costs associated with decommissioning boreholes at the end of life.This project enables the scale of these potential synergies to be developed by exploring the potential for partnership and collaborative working between international specialists in geothermal energy recovery and District Eating Ltd an innovative leader in the recovery of waste heat for protected horticulture.