Project outputs
In this page you can find the public documents produced by DeepU.
Press release
- DeepU Laser Drilling Technology is ready to Enter Field Testing Phase – October 29, 2025
- Does Deep Geothermal Drilling need a Revolution? – April 7, 2025
- DeepU: Pioneering the Future of Geothermal Drilling and Deployment – September 16, 2024
- Optimising access to deep geothermal resources with new state-of-the-art drilling technologies to unleash clean, abundant energy from the Earth – May 9, 2023
Newsletters
- Newsletter #1 – May, 2023
- Newsletter #2 – February, 2024
- Newsletter #3 – April, 2025
Deliverables
- D1.1 – Report on various liquid and cryptogenic gases suitable for laser-beam drilling
- D1.2 – Report on the final design and material selection for the 3-fold drill string
- D2.1 – Laser and gas processing head
- D2.2 – Laboratory setup for rock melting
- D2.3 – Report including the laboratory tests -laser-rock interaction
- D2.4 – Temperature management strategy and automated control algorithm
- D3.1 – Report on the petrophysical effects induced by the laser beams and cryogenic gas on rocks
- D3.2 – Assessment of rocks vitrification and vaporization in laboratory samples
- D3.3 – Report on thermodynamic modeling of phase equilibria
- D4.1 – Legal & Regulatory Framework of Deep Drilling Technologies and Practices
- D4.2 – EHS comparison of DeepU with conventional drilling technologies
- D4.3 – EHS and regulatory recommendations for DeepU technology
- D5.1 – DeepU closed loop geothermal heating plant
- D5.2 – DeepU drilling scalability and possible future on-site application
- D6.1 – Website and Project logo
- D6.2 – Production of leaflet and brochure
- D6.3 – Dissemination, Exploitation and Communication activities Plan
- D6.4 – First report on Dissemination and Exploitation including Communication
- D7.1 – Quality Assurance Plan
- D7.2 – Detailed Project Management Plan
- D7.3 – Data Management Plan
- D7.4 – First RPX update of the Data Management Plan
- D7.5 – Quality Assurance Plan
- D7.6 – Report on the first year activities
- D7.7 – Report on the second year activities
- D7.9 – Technical/scientific review meeting documents 1st Reporting Period
- D8.2 – Report concerning the review of the thermal insulation options for cryogen transport channels
- D8.3 – Report on the assessment of minimal mechanical requirements for the cryogenic system based on experimental tests results
- D8.4 – Risk Analysis of the laser drill cryogenic system
Papers & Articles
- Deep U-tube heat exchanger breakthrough: combining laser and cryogenics gas for geothermal energy exploitation (Word Geothermal Congress 2023)
- Deep U-tube heat exchanger breakthrough: combining laser and cryogenics gas for geothermal energy exploitation – a perspective of laser-rock interactions (EGU 2024)
- Novel geothermal drilling for developing deep heat exchangers: the DeepU Project (Stanford Geothermal Workshop 2025)
- Novel geothermal drilling for developing heat exchangers: the DeepU Project (Drilling Türkiye 2025)
- Laser-rock interactions, is drilling rocks possible with a laser? (EGU 2025)
- Advances in laser drilling technology from DeepU Project (EGC 2025)
Presentations & Posters
- April 21, 2023 – ETIP Geothermal Webinar (EGEC) Updates on Drilling for Geothermal – DeepU Presentation
- September 14, 2023 – Geofluid, Piacenza (Italy) – Sperimentazione e prospettive: nuove tecniche di perforazione di laser e gas criogenici – DeepU Presentation
- September 16, 2023 – World Geothermal Congress, Beijing (China) – DeepU Presentation
- September 20, 2023 – The Geoscience paradigm: resources, risk and future perspectives, Potenza (Italy) – DeepU Presentation
- November 16, 2023 – Energy trends 2023, Rome (Italy) – DeepU Presentation
- November 22, 2023 – ETIP Geothermal Annual Conference, Pisa (Italy) – DeepU Presentation
- April 15, 2024 – EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna (Austria) – DeepU Presentation
- April 19, 2024 – ETIP Geothermal Webinar (EGEC) Updates on Drilling for Geothermal – DeepU Presentation
- November 12, 2024 – UK Geothermal Symposium, London (UK) – DeepU Poster
- November 21, 2024 – Geothermal Innovation Days, Munich (Germany) – DeepU Presentation
- February 12, 2025 – Stanford Geothermal Workshop, Stanford (United States) – DeepU Presentation
- April 30, 2025 – EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna (Austria) – DeepU Poster
- May 6, 2025 – International Drilling Congress and Exhibition of Türkiye, Ankara (Türkiye) – DeepU Presentation
- May 21, 2025 – Cryogenic Engineering Conference 2025, Reno (Nevada, US) – DeepU Presentation
- October 6, 2025 – Congresso congiunto SIMP-SGI 2025, Padua (Italy) – DeepU Presentation1 – DeepU Presentation2
- October 6, 2025 – European Geothermal Congress 2025, Zurich (Switzerland) – DeepU Presentation