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

该项目将使英国公司District Eating Ltd探索国际合作机会，以调查保护园艺与前陆上油气威尔斯井（OGW）地热能回收的巨大潜力。该工作将寻求发展合作伙伴关系，以衡量，最大限度地提高，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，据估计，有2900万以前的OGW，其中一些可以重新用于为发电，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，因此地热热回收的经济可行性取决于开采地点附近是否存在大量持续的热量需求。供暖在北方纬度的保护地园艺企业的经营成本中占很大比例。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，保护园艺中使用的大多数热量来自化石燃料，导致二氧化碳排放。以较低、稳定的成本从重新利用的OGW中获得低碳地热、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，这对双方来说是双赢的。将以前的OGW重新用于地热能大大降低了与钻新井眼相关的风险和成本，该项目通过探索地热能回收领域的国际专家与回收领域的创新领导者District Eating Ltd之间的合作伙伴关系和协作工作的潜力，用于保护园艺。

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.