Operations and Services

Iceland Drilling is the world’s leading expert in exploiting geothermal energy. Iceland Drilling is a reliable, high-tech company following an elaborate environmental policy.

The company specializes in drilling for geothermal energy since 1945, concentrating on drilling for high-pressure steam. It is an international expert in the forefront of a truly specialized field.

Iceland Drilling has its roots in Iceland and now operates internationally under the name of Hekla Energy.

High Temperature Drilling
ID is a leading high technical company in the field of high temperature geothermal drilling in volcanic areas.

Geothermal Low temperature drilling
ID has many decades of experience in low temperature drilling in Iceland. The company has drilled most of the low temperature holes in Iceland and has a drilling fleet suitable for low temperature drilling from 200-300 meter deep wells down to 2.500-meter deep wells. Low-temperature drilling is different from high-temperature drilling as both the temperature and the pressure are much lower. However, there is need for caution as there is often a substantial amount of water involved which can exceed the temperature of 100°C.  ID  offers both convenient equipment, including topdrive rigs and experienced employees.

Exploration Drilling
Core Drilling
Core drilling for site investigations for various civil works projects, has been one of our major exploration drilling projects during the last few years. In the last decades the continuous wire-line coring technique has been exclusively adopted, along with special a packers for leakoff tests.

Other Drilling
Air Drilling
ID  has applied air drilling since the early eighties. For this purpose, a fleet of high-pressure air compressors is used in combination with down-hole hammers. Air drilling has led to a 5-10 fold increase in the rate of penetration in hard crystalline rocks.