[Sequoyah101]

Why? Why drill into molten anything? If you do you won't stay there long and you can't complete it. All you have to do is get close enough to boil water and pump it down then get steam back.

Back in the dark ages Lone Star Gas drilled a well called the Bertha Rogers in Oklahoma. It ended when they drilled into what they think was molten sulfur in the Arbuckle formation. Thankfully the sulfur solidified when it tried to blow out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Rogers

It was a Loffland Brothers rig. An old friend of mine was tool pusher. Really gutsy for a company like Lone Star to drill such a well. I was in awe. El Paso Natural gas and Tenneco were also adventurous back in those days as was GHK. Only made it to just shy of 29,000 feet vertical depth myself well into the Arbuckle. That came to an end with a nasty H2S kick. The powers that be decided we had gone far enough.

[Red Badger]

I bet it stunk to high heaven!...............

[Bulwyf]

Lot of Texans and other drillers come up here to train (Grande Prairie area) and it’s interesting to see the differences. That, or we’re just plain crazy. That’s also a real possibility.

[NewHampshireDuo]

Quaise Energy https://www.quaise.energy/company is working on a microwave drilling technique to access temperatures adequate to generate superheated steam. This could be done anywhere. The trick is drilling a 20 mile deep hole.

[scrabblehack]

I thought Iceland already used geothermal energy — I suppose with a different mechanism.