Geothermal well logging demonstration wins American-Made manufacturing prize

One of the 15 teams to win the U.S. Department of Energy’s American-Made Geothermal Manufacturing Prize is led by Rapid Prototypes with a team from GeoTex Design Solutions, DNV-GL and Veizades & Associates.  The Geothermal Prize provides additional funding as incentives to further product development with three more phases.

The strategy of the team is to demonstrate a future suite of logging tools that can be deployed in ultra-high temperature geothermal wells.  The core technology of this project is the design and process of Additive Manufacturing to optimize the geometric design and unique material layering to reduce thermal conductivity between the electronics and the reservoir temperature. The goal is to expand the temperature rating of the tool to 400^oC for a duration of 10 hours.  This will greatly expand our understanding of geothermal wells in the drilling, testing and operating phases.

Rapid Prototypes was founded by Jeffrey Johnston with the aim to reduce both the time to market and development cost of high-performance electronic systems. Serving the Aerospace, Oil & Gas, Medical and Renewables industries, Rapid Prototypes uses the Fail Fast approach to reduce capital investment in high quality designs.