05.07.2009

The EGS concept is to extract heat by creating a subsurface fracture system in rocks into which water can be added through injection wells. Creating an enhanced requires improving the natural permeability of rock. Rocks are permeable due to minute fractures and pore spaces between mineral grains. Injected water is heated by contact with the rock and returns to the surface through production wells, as in naturally occurring hydrothermal systems. EGS are reservoirs created to improve the economics of resources without adequate water and/or permeability. EGS offer great potential for dramatically expanding the use of geothermal energy.

Measures taken by suppliers and users of energy to limit wastage of energy. Such measures may be passive (e.g. insulation); active (e.g. utilization of waste heat or gas that would otherwise be flared); or organizational.

An Environment Management System (EMS) is a tool for managing the impacts of an organization’s activities on the environment. It provides a structured approach to planning and implementing environment protection measures. To develop an EMS, an organization has to assess its environmental impacts, set targets to reduce these impacts, and plan how to achieve the targets.

Industrial processes that require a lot of energy and are thus strongly affected by price and supply issues. If production of natural gas increases for instance over the next decade it could lead to a reduction of energy prices and increase the competitiveness of energy intensive industries.

EGS resource base is defined as the total thermal energy in place in the earth’s crust to the depth that we can reach with current technology

A chemical compound produced in a reaction between ethanol and isobutylene (a petroleum-derived by-product of the refining process). ETBE has characteristics superior to other ethers: low volatility, low water solubility, high octane value, and a large reduction in carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon emissions

There are 3 possible routes: via the Cape of Good Hope, via the Suez Canal and via the Katza Ashkelon-Eilat pipeline (reverse flow project)