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Twin Rivers outlines plan to drill exploratory hydrogen well near Clarion-Belmont
Summary
Twin Rivers Exploration told the Wright County Board of Supervisors it plans to construct a roughly 4-acre pad and drill an exploratory well to about 10,000 feet near Highway 69 between Clarion and Belmont, seeking state permits and county coordination on drainage, heavy-haul routes and water use.
Kyle Handy, a representative of Twin Rivers Exploration, briefed the Wright County Board of Supervisors on Oct. 20 about the company’s planned exploratory drilling for subsurface hydrogen between Clarion and Belmont.
The company said it is in the final stages of survey work and intends to submit a well permit to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. “Our goal is to have all approvals in place and to begin drilling or spudding the well before the end of the year,” Handy said.
Why it matters: the project would involve constructing a roughly 4-acre pad close to Highway 69, heavy-haul truck movements for rig mobilization, round-the-clock drilling for part of the work and testing of rock, water and gas samples that could take months to fully analyze. The company said drilling would reach approximately 10,000 feet and that drilling operations are expected to take 20–30 days, followed by about a week of downhole testing.
What Twin Rivers described: Gabe Mueller, engineering manager for Twin Rivers, said pad construction would begin in mid-November and take “3 to 5 weeks depending…
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