The company said that it planned to re-drill both wells to achieve production in wells SJ 12-1 and SJ 12-2.
The re-drills were expected to correct the problems encountered in the original drilling and reach the originally planned intersection of deep production zones.
In February 2011, the company re-appointed Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM), a global consulting firm in the geothermal industry.
The company commenced the re-drill of well SJ 12-1 ST1 (a sidetrack recovery of the SJ12-1 well) in February 2011.
The well was completed in March 2011 to a depth of 8,544ft, and upon completion was immediately evaluated with an injection test designed to determine permeability.
The company completed the initial drilling of SJ 12-2 in January 2011.
The well was drilled to a depth of 7,532ft at which point a drill rig power failure resulted in the drill string becoming stuck in the well.
These initial results confirmed that well SJ12-2 will be a production well with an estimated capacity of about 4MW.
The San Jacinto-Tizate exploration drilling program is focused on developing the geothermal resources needed for the phased power plant expansion designed to increase production from the current 10MW to 72MW.
