Message from the Director 2022
Greetings, friends and colleagues. 2022 has been an eventful year in the energy industry. The pandemic has continued to affect all aspects of life around the world. Ongoing geopolitical events, persistent inflation and supply-chain issues have impacted energy prices...
EGI at 50 Years
The Energy & Geoscience Institute (EGI) is one of the world’s largest university-hosted, cost-shared energy research consortia. Its history traces back to two energy institutes created in the early 1970s: the Earth Sciences...
Leading Publications Cover Utah FORGE’s Scientific Breakthroughs in EGS
The Utah Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (Utah FORGE), was recently profiled in two national publications. Utah FORGE is a five-year, $220 million USD research project seeking to create a demonstration of a commercially viable Enhanced...
June update from Utah FORGE
The Utah FORGE research team has achieved yet another major milestone in advancing enhanced geothermal system technologies with the successful completion of the first large scale 10-day stimulation trial (April 14-24, 2022) in the deep deviated well 16A(78)-32...
EGI in North Africa – First Steps in International Oil & Gas Exploration
In the early 1970s, the University of South Carolina formed the Earth Sciences & Resources Institute (ESRI), part of which would become EGI. ESRI was established with an early focus on studying the geology and resource potential of North Africa. As early as 1973,...
Geoscience – What remains to be discovered?
Geoscience studies Earth as a whole, unified planetary system. To do this, over the past two centuries, geoscientists developed various methods, instruments and concepts; they have also integrated principles and knowledge from other sciences including chemistry and...